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AusArray temporary passive seismic station deployment, servicing and retrieval: Geoscience Australia standard operating procedures

The Australian Passive Seismic Array Project (AusArray) program was developed from a long history of passive seismic imaging in Australia involving many contributors. Building on this history, the Australian Government and academia have united around AusArray. The objective is a standardised and quality controlled national passive seismic data coverage and an updatable national seismic velocity model framework that can be used as a background for higher-resolution studies. This document details the field activities and equipment preparation for temporary passive seismic station deployment, service and retrieval. Equipment cleaning and testing and database details are also described. The standard operating procedures applied during these activities were established during the deployment of two temporary passive seismograph arrays under the Australian Government’s Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program. These arrays consisted of 120–130 stations deployed in the Northern Territory and Queensland for over a year in a grid pattern with a lateral spacing of half a degree (~55 km). The temporary passive seismograph stations comprised Nanometrics Trillium Compact 120S broadband seismic sensors connected to a Güralp minimus digitiser. Batteries charged by a solar panel powered both instruments. Each station in the array was serviced, i.e. repairs if required and interim data was retrieved, at least once during the deployment.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2021-11-24
Date (Publication)
2022-08-02T05:41:56
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/146123

Citation identifier
Digital Object Identifier/http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/Record.2022.026

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

Holzschuh, J.

MEG Internal Contact
Author

Gorbatov, A.

MEG Internal Contact
Author

Glowacki, J.

Corporate Division Internal Contact
Author

Cooper, A.

External Contact
Author

Cooper, C.

External Contact
Name

Record

Issue identification

GA RECORD: 2022/026

Purpose

A detailed description of the AusArray passive seismograph temporay station deployment, servicing and retrieval standard operating procedures and includes equipment preparation and database record keeping of equipment.

Status
Completed
Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Point of contact

Holzschuh, J.

MEG Internal Contact
Resource provider

Minerals, Energy and Groundwater Division

External Contact
Spatial representation type
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
2017-05-24 2021-05-24

Extent

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Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Website

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Project
  • AusArray

Project
  • EFTF

Project
  • Exploring for the Future

Keywords
  • Geophysics

Keywords
  • Australia

Keywords
  • National

Keywords
  • Passive Seismic

Keywords
  • Velocity

Keywords
  • Seismic

theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
  • EARTH SCIENCES

  • GEOPHYSICS

Keywords
  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
OnLine resource

Download the Record (pdf) [24.5 MB]

Download the Record (pdf) [24.5 MB]

Distribution format
  • pdf

    File decompression technique

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Resource lineage

Statement

Updates to techniques, equipment and software may be provided in updated versions of this document in the future.

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security Classification System

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/e75f65cc-a401-4cd1-ac6c-06294c7fb159

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

Voice
Owner

Holzschuh, J

Geoscience Australia Internal Contact
Point of contact

Holzschuh, J.

MEG Internal Contact

Type of resource

Resource scope
Document
Name

GA publication: GA Record

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/146123

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5167d912-6784-4371-9938-3931e84ca6f1

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/e75f65cc-a401-4cd1-ac6c-06294c7fb159

Date info (Creation)
2019-04-08T01:55:29
Date info (Revision)
2019-04-08T01:55:29

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

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Keywords

AusArray EFTF Exploring for the Future
theme.ANZRC Fields of Research.rdf
EARTH SCIENCES GEOPHYSICS

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