Microsoft Excel Add-Inn Ken Ludwig and Geoscience Australia

Background Explorer is a Geoscience Australia (GA) application, which was sponsored by the Department of Industry (DoI), commencing in 2012. Explorer is a comprehensive and powerful modern web-based decision support tool utilising high quality data products to aid information discovery, visualisation and the modelling of planning and development scenarios using the best available data. Originally developed as a pipeline planning decision support system, Explorer continues to break new ground providing visualisation and decision support for a disparate-range of infrastructure, planning and modelling needs, across government and industry alike. Relevance Explorer provides the ability for government planners, regulators, investors and industry proponents to drill down into specific areas and analyse location information about the geography, infrastructure, geology, resources and the investment potential of Australia. Explorer currently utilises modelling techniques such as multi-criteria analysis for: 1) least cost path route selection and assessment for major infrastructure such as pipelines, roads, rail and transmission lines; and 2) can be further enhanced to identify and assess critical infrastructure location options for infrastructure such as, power stations, airports, ports, renewable energy facilities and water catchment reservoirs. First-pass planning & analysis and delivery of investment opportunities information Explorer brings national and local scale data together from multiple sources with a powerful visualisation capability, in an intuitive interface. Originally designed to provide linear infrastructure first-pass planning, Explorer has been successfully adapted to provide capabilities for investment opportunity analysis, including; economic fairways modelling, offshore marine and fisheries decision support, infrastructure planning and natural hazards modelling. What if analysis The tools provided by Explorer allow the creation of optimal routes or locations for future infrastructure what if modelling tasks, taking into account factors such as terrain, geology, land use restrictions and natural hazards such as flood and earthquake zones. The what-if modelling functionality can be equally applied to future development and investment planning tasks, using appropriate data to provide an overview of the proposed development and investment potential of a geographic region or defined area. Evidenced-based Modelling outputs and planning scenarios are supported by decision support documentation, automatically generated by Explorer. Data provenance including metadata records are provided as evidence of the data and modelling algorithms used, giving complete transparency to the modelling task. Collaborative platform Explorer provides a collaborative workspace, enabling users to create secure projects, where access can be limited to those individuals selected by the project initiator. Future capabilities will allow the saving of sessions within the project workspace. Secure data Explorer is a secure platform allowing users to access predefined data layers and their own data for modelling and assessment purposes. Restricted datasets and modelling outputs are stored securely and access locked down to authorised users only.

The intended use for this application is to provide spatial discoverability for the Offshore well and seismic datasets within National Offshore Petroleum Information Management System (NOPIMS). This web service within this application is NOPIMS_Offshore_Well_and_Seismic_Discovery will also require to be made into a product. It will display the NOPIMS Offshore Well and Seismic surveys. The data does not provide the actually surveys only the spatial location of what survey can be requested. The wells layer consists of drilling surveys. The 2D seismic survey is conducted along lines and produces a single vertical profile. The 3D seismic survey is conducted over and area and produces a 3D subsurface model.

A git code repository container for Earth Observation tools. An example tool is the DatasetDrivers construct for automatic retrieval of imagery & metadata.

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The RadWaste Reporting Tool allows Dept of Industry and GHD staff to analyse and compare Multi Criteria Analysis (MCA) ratings of a site within a nominated location and ascertain the reason for the ranking and score. This tool also outputs a snapshot of the nominated site, giving a context map and scores against requirement criteria.

A fully four-dimensional (3D x time) object-oriented biophysical dispersal model was developed to simulate the movement of marine larvae over semi-continuous surfaces. The model is capable of handling massive numbers of simulated larvae, can accommodate diverse life history patterns and distributions of characteristics, and saves point-level information to a relational database management system.

RadWaste Decision Support System (DSS) allows Dept. Industry and GHD stakeholders to perform multi criteria analysis (MCA) against the 30 mandatory requirements for each land submission for consideration for consideration for the national radioactive waste storage site. The shorlisted sites will need to be suitable for the long-term storage of low-level and medium-level radioactive waste. The storage site is expected to have a 500yr lifecycle; 100 years active, 400 yrs managed closure.

Collection of tsunami related codes

The Gippsland Basin is a premier hydrocarbon producing province, however exploration efforts in recent years were only met with limited success. New discoveries and extensions to existing ones were recorded along the northern basin flank, while the entire eastern, deeper water part of the basin remains underexplored to the present day. In order to address these questions Geoscience Australia has embarked on a petroleum systems modelling study to better understand the burial history of key horizons in the Gippsland Basin and its influence on changes in temperature, porosity, permeability and fluid migration. APPEA Conference 2014