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High-resolution digital elevation model of the North West Shelf – 30m

The University of Western Australia
Lebrec, Ulysse ; Paumard, Victorien ; O'Leary, Mick ; Lang, Simon
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This resource contains a bathymetry compilation prepared by the University of Western Australia for the North West Shelf of Australia, between the Cape Range and the Dampier Peninsula. The compilation includes, by decreasing resolution: - Publicly available MBES datasets, made available by Geoscience Australia by December 2019. - Satellite derived bathymetry produced using 1000+ images acquired between January 2017 and December 2019. - Seismic derived bathymetry extracted from 100+ surveys acquired between 1981 and 2015. - SRTM topography, reprocessed by Galant et al, 2011: http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/72759 - 2009 Australian Bathymetry and Topography grid: http://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/67703 The Seismic and Satellite derived bathymetry grids are also available as individual layers. The vertical and spatial accuracy of the datasets have been thoroughly assessed using high-resolution datasets including publicly available MBES and LADS surveys. The assessment indicates that the seismic derived bathymetry has a depth accuracy better than 1 m + 2% of the absolute water depths while the satellites derived bathymetry has a depth accuracy better than 1 m + 5% of the absolute water depths.

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Norwegian Geotechnical Institute

Created: 2021 to 2021

Issued: 2021

Data time period: 2017-01-01 to 2019-12-31

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  • Associated with This dataset was produced using Python 2.7 and ArcGIS 10.5 The vertical datum is MSL while the horizontal datum is WGS84 UTM-50S. For additional metadata questions, please download the Metadata.txt file and the lineage shapefile located with the dataset. Processing methodology: The detailed methodology is presented in the journal article located with the dataset.
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text: North West Shelf of Australia

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Bathymetry | Digital Elevation Model | Elevation | Geoscientific Information | Multibeam Echo Sounder (MBES) | Navigation Derived Bathymetry | Oceans | Satellite Derived Bathymetry | Swath Bathymetry |

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