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GMRT-AusSeabed
Global multi-resolution topography for Australian coastal and ocean models through the AusSeabed Marine Data Portal
Who will benefit
Fisheries management staff, environmental and conservation management staff, researchers, including ocean and coastal modellers, local councils, emergency management staff, state government, coastal planning sector resource industry, marine surveying sector and recreational ocean stakeholders
Program
The Challenge
The GMRT-AusSeabed project has enabled users to create their own seamless seabed maps using AusSeabed datasets.
It has addressed the cost associated with processing, merging and reformatting of bathymetric data in marine modelling and management by adopting and expanding the Global Multi-Resolution Topography Synthesis (GMRT) and becoming a local platform node focused on Australia’s region of marine responsibility.
The GMRT is operated by Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory and funded by the US National Science Foundation.
The Response
The GMRT-AusSeabed platform provides seamless, high-quality elevation and bathymetry data to the consistent standards required for oceanographic models and predictions, accelerating research by reducing manual effort, avoiding duplication and removing the barrier of specialised skills needed for accurate bathymetry data.
The outputs, suitable for high-performance computing or desktop environments, ensure the service is scalable and accessible to the wider research community while the consistency, resolution, and processing capability delivered by this platform improve the accuracy, validity and reliability of modelling.
GMRT-AusSeabed integrates with the AusSeabed Marine Data Portal, a cloud-hosted federated platform for open seabed mapping data. This integration leverages off an already established platform to amplify the benefits to Australian marine science and the broader community.
The project involved the following elements:
Deakin University, James Cook University and CSIRO collated, processed and published a range of bathymetry datasets from various sources and with different horizontal resolutions (e.g. multibeam sonar, bathymetric LIDAR, single-beam sonar and 3D seismic data), and in doing so contributed to establishing best-practices for collating bathymetry data.
A series of surveys and workshops led by the Bureau of Meteorology and Geoscience Australia engaged the ocean and coastal modelling community from universities, public and private sectors to ensure the solutions are fit-for-purpose.
Geoscience Australia and Lamont Doherty Earth Observation (LDEO) adopted and enhanced the GMRT synthesis platform, which enables users to generate custom maps and grids from a compilation dataset, and run hydrodynamic models in high performance computing environments (AWS/NCI).
Training materials were created for the end-user community.
The Outcomes
Create seamless seabed maps through the AusSeabed Marine Data Portal. Learn more about the GMRT-AusSeabed project and AusSeabed.
This project has enabled a nationally consistent and best-practice approach for synthesising various datasets into a seamless coastal and marine elevation framework, with the capacity to create user-specified high-quality, custom-resolution, integrated elevation and bathymetry grids that are fit for purpose.
Who Will Benefit
Fisheries management staff, environmental and conservation management staff, researchers, including ocean and coastal modellers, local councils, emergency management staff, state government, coastal planning sector resource industry, marine surveying sector and recreational ocean stakeholders will all benefit from the project’s core features:
The Partners
- AusSeabed
- Geoscience Australia
- Australian Antarctic Division
- CSIRO
- Australian Hydrographic Office
- Australian Institute of Marine Science
- Bureau of Meteorology
- Deakin University
- James Cook University
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory
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Timeframe
February 2021 to May 2022
Current Phase
Complete
ARDC Co-investment
$373,931
Project lead
Geoscience Australia
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