Brief description
The goal of our study was to split the Australian maritime Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) into a set of smaller acoustic zones, whereby each zone is characterised by a set of environmental parameters that vary more across than within zones. The environmental parameters chosen reflect the hydroacoustic (e.g., water column sound speed profile), geoacoustic (e.g., sound speeds and absorption coefficients for compressional and shear waves), and bathymetric (i.e., seafloor depth and slope) parameters that directly affect the way in which sound propagates. Mean zone parameters and shape files are available for download. The zones may be used to map, for example, underwater sound from commercial shipping within the entire Australian EEZ.Lineage
Maintenance and Update Frequency: notPlannedCreated: 2021-02-27
Data time period: 2015-07-01 to 2017-07-01
text: westlimit=108.688; southlimit=-47.611; eastlimit=163.36; northlimit=-8.458
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(DATA ACCESS - environmental characterisation of zones (mean parameters per zone))
(DATA ACCESS - national map of acoustic zones)
uri :
https://data.imas.utas.edu.au/attachments/0c1bb667-29b2-4848-ade7-a98417121a66/DavidPeel_ZoneMap.zip
(PUBLICATION - Marine Acoustic Zones of Australia)
doi :
https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9030340
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