Bynoe Harbour Habitat Mapping Survey 2016: High resolution bathymetry grid

This resource contains multibeam bathymetry data for Bynoe Harbour collected by Geoscience Australia (GA), the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and the Northern Territory Government (Department of Environment and Natural Resources) during the period between 3 and 27 May 2016 on the RV Solander (survey SOL6432/GA04452). This project was made possible through offset funds provided by INPEX-led Ichthys LNG Project to Northern Territory Government Department of Environment and Natural Resources, and co-investment from Geoscience Australia and Australian Institute of Marine Science. The intent of this four year (2014-2018) program is to improve knowledge of the marine environments in the Darwin and Bynoe Harbour regions by collating and collecting baseline data that enable the creation of thematic habitat maps that underpin marine resource management decisions.

The specific objectives of the survey were to:

1. Obtain high resolution geophysical (bathymetry) data for Bynoe Harbour;

2. Characterise substrates (acoustic backscatter properties, grainsize, sediment chemistry) for Bynoe Harbour; and

3. Collect tidal data for the survey area. Data acquired during the survey included: multibeam sonar bathymetry and acoustic backscatter; physical samples of seabed sediments, underwater photography and video of grab sample locations and oceanographic information including tidal data and sound velocity profiles.

This dataset comprises multibeam bathymetry data. A detailed account of the survey is provided in: Siwabessy, P.J.W., Smit, N., Atkinson, I., Dando, N., Harries, S., Howard, F.J.F., Li, J., Nicholas W.A., Picard, K., Radke, L.C., Tran, M., Williams, D. and Whiteway, T. 2016. Bynoe Harbour Marine Survey 2016: GA4452/SOL6432 – Post-survey report. Record 2017/04. Geoscience Australia, Canberra. http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/Record.2017.004.

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Date (Creation): 2017-05-22T10:40:00

Date (Publication): 2017-06-05T14:00:00

Citation identifier: Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/110627

Citation identifier: Digital Object Identifier/http://dx.doi.org/10.26186/5d5c79cdbfcb4

Cited responsible party

Role	Organisation / Individual Name	Details
Author	Siwabessy, P.J.W.
Contributor	Picard, K.
Contributor	Howard, F.J.F.
Contributor	Smit, N.
Contributor	Williams, D.
Contributor	Dando, N.J.
Contributor	Atkinson, I.
Contributor	Harries, S.

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Role	Organisation / Individual Name	Details
Point of contact	Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)	Voice
Point of contact	Siwabessy, P.	Place and Communities Division Internal Contact

Spatial representation type: Grid

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Level of detail: 1 metre

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Geoscientific information

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Time period: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 Friday, May 27, 2016

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Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

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Title: Product data repository: Various Formats

Protocol: FILE:DATA-DIRECTORY

Name of the resource: Data Store directory containing the digital product files

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

Function: Offline access

GCMD Keywords

Earth Science | Oceans
Earth Science | Oceans | Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification: Fields of Research

Environmental Sciences

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HVC_144641
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AusSeabed

Discipline

Marine

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bathymetry

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

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Role	Organisation / Individual Name	Details
Distributor	Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)	Voice

OnLine resource: Caris Csar data

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OnLine resource: Bynoe Harbour Bathymetry 2016 1m (tif) [1.05 GB]

Bynoe Harbour Bathymetry 2016 1m (tif) [1.05 GB]

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The Bynoe Harbour Marine Survey 2016, GA-4452/SOL6432 was acquired by Geoscience Australia (GA), the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and Department of Environment and Natural Resources (Northern Territory Government) onboard the RV Solander between 3 and 27 May 2016.

The AIMS Cruise Leaders were Mr. David Williams (leg 1) and Mr. Simon Harries (leg 2), the NTGov Chief Investigator onboard was Dr. Neil Smit, and the GA Survey Leaders were Dr. Justy Siwabessy (leg 1) and Mr. Floyd Howard (leg 2).

This dataset was acquired using Kongsberg's SIS acquistion software and processed onboard using CARIS HIPS & SIPS ver 8.1.13 software by Justy Siwabessy, Kim Picard, Floyd Howard, Neil Smit, Dave Williams, Nick Dando, Ian Atkinson and Simon Harries.

Metadata:

The multibeam bathymetry was acquired by the following survey:

- Survey Name: Bynoe Harbour Habitat Mapping Survey 2016 (GA-4452/SOL6432)

- Vessel Name: RV Solander

- Institutions: Geoscience Australia, AIMS, NTGov

- Country: Australia

- Operator: AIMS

- Multibeam system: Kongsberg EM2040C (dual)

- Year of installation: 2014

- Nominal sonar frequency: 300 kHz

- Number of beams: 800 beams

- Beamwidth across track: 1.3 degrees

- Beamwidth along track: 1.3 degrees

- Pulse length: variable

- Selectable depth range: 5 m - 60 m

- Vessel speed: 7 - 10 knots

- Start Date: 03/05/2016

- End Date: 27/05/2016

- Start Port: Darwin

- End Port: Darwin

- Processing software: CARIS HIPS & SIPS ver 8.1.13

- Grid resolution: 1 m

- Number of grids: 1

- Total surface coverage: 684 km2

- Vertical Datum: MSL

- Horizontal Datum: WGS84 UTM-52S

- Use Limitation: This dataset is not to be used for navigational purposes.

This dataset is published with the permission of the CEO, Geoscience Australia

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier

EPSG/WGS 84 / UTM zone 52S (EPSG:32752)

Title: European Petroleum Survey Group (EPSG) Geodetic Parameter Registry

Date (Publication): 2008-11-12T00:00:00

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Role	Organisation / Individual Name	Details
	European Petroleum Survey Group	http://www.epsg-registry.org/

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Code: RV Solander

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Code: EM2040C

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Title: Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

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

Website

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

Classification: Unclassified

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urn:uuid/fe18b2cb-1f11-4b5b-ac6c-739eee19aa18

Title: GeoNetwork UUID

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Role	Organisation / Individual Name	Details
Point of contact	Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)	Voice

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Resource scope: Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title: Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with uuid

Citation identifier: eCatId/110627

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https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/fe18b2cb-1f11-4b5b-ac6c-739eee19aa18

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au:80/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/fe18b2cb-1f11-4b5b-ac6c-739eee19aa18

Date info (Creation): 2025-03-19T23:19:44.458Z

Date info (Creation): 2017-05-22T00:19:10

Date info (Revision): 2025-03-19T23:22:02.842Z

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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