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Acoustic depth soundings collected on Australian Antarctic Division voyages, 2006/07 to 2010/11

The data processing was done by the Royal Australian Navy's (RAN) Deployable Geospatial Support Team (DGST) and was provided to the Australian Antarctic Data Centre by the Australian Hydrographic Office.


The dataset is titled HI483A because the processing was done on a 2010/11 voyage to Mawson and HI 483 was going to be a RAN survey at Mawson. The RAN survey wasn't feasible because of sea ice.


The data processed (12KHz EDO 323HP echo sounder data) was collected on the following voyages:

2006/07 V2, V4, V6

2007/08 SIP, V3, V6

2008/09 V0, V1, V2, V3, V5

2009/10 V0, V1, V2, V3, V4, V5, V7

2010/11 Trials, V1, V2, V3, VE2, VMS


All voyage data sets were processed in the following manner. As the Aurora Australis sails from either Hobart, Tasmania or Fremantle, Western Australia all the shallow water data files containing depths less then 200m around these ports were not processed and deleted. If the sea floor image was too hard to determine during the voyage either parts of day lines were not processed or the whole line deleted depending on the quality of the data. This is evident with some day *.CSV files containing a second or third file, these files had the same file name and were given a end character of _2 or _3. Unfortunately the program Echoview is meant to allow the user to span gaps when processing a line but more often than not, this was not the case. So if there was a requirement to a have gap in the daily file then usually a second file was created. Regularly throughout all voyages files were observed that had no GPS data associated with the depths. Any raw files without GPS data could not be processed, all these files have been deleted. Occasionally corrupt files were experienced, and these corrupt files have also been deleted. When the Aurora Australis was at anchor off an Antarctic Station these files too were deleted. With the various problems with the raw data files, no voyage has complete sounding data for the whole voyage. Some voyages have large sections of data missing, but unfortunately this data was not able to processed due to one of the above factors.


All soundings were processed utilising the spheroid, WGS84 and only geographic co-ordinates have been determined. UTM grid co-ordinates were not calculated during the processing stages due to software limitations. Grid co-ordinates were not calculated for the final HTF files.


Scripts were developed to apply depth water corrections, tide offsets if shallower than 200m of water and the layback of the sounder with respect to the Ashtech GPS.


The processing of the data from 2007/08 V3, 2007/08 V6 and 2010/11 V3 was incomplete. Complete processing of the data from these voyages was done as part of HI513 which is described by the metadata record with ID AAD_voyage_soundings_HI513.


The data has not been through the verification process for use in charts.

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Identification info

Alternate title
Acoustic depth soundings collected on Australian Antarctic Division voyages, 2006/07 to 2010/11
Date (Publication)
2016-09-19
Edition
1
Citation identifier
Dataset DOI

Title
Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
Date (Publication)
2012-04-23
Citation identifier
ISO 26324:2012

Citation identifier
doi:10.4225/15/57DF79A3BE806

Originator

Walter, B.J., Brolsma, H., Reeve, J., Symons, L., Draper, H. and Watts, D.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

WALTER, BEN JOHN
Royal Australian Navy
Australia

Principal investigator

BROLSMA (RETIRED), HENK
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Principal investigator

REEVE, JONO
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3106

Principal investigator

SYMONS, LLOYD
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3361
+61 3 6232 3496 (facsimile)

Collaborator

REEVE, JONO
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3106

Collaborator

SYMONS, LLOYD
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3361
+61 3 6232 3496 (facsimile)

Collaborator

DRAPER, HANNA
Manager Digital Information
Australian Hydrographic Office
8 Station St
Wollongong
NSW
2500
Australia
+61 2 4223 6651
+61 2 4223 6599 (facsimile)
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/VMS_Bathy_Processing

Purpose
Potential uses of the data include the updating of nautical charts and the creation of bathymetric datasets.
Status
Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3244
+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)
Topic category
  • Oceans

Extent

N
S
E
W


Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
2006-12-08 2011-02-06

Extent

Description
Vertical Extent - Depth

Vertical element

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
4500
Identifier
urn:x-ogc:def:cs:EPSG:6498
Name
Vertical CS. Axis: depth (D). Orientation: down. UoM: m.
Identifier
urn:x-ogc:def:axis:EPSG:113
Name
depth
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > WATER DEPTH
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > BATHYMETRY/SEAFLOOR TOPOGRAPHY > BATHYMETRY
Keywords
  • Bathymetry
  • SOUNDING
  • DEPTH
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • ECHO SOUNDERS
  • ACOUSTIC SOUNDERS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • SHIPS
  • R/V AA > R/V Aurora Australis
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD/AU
  • AMD
  • CEOS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

Resource constraints

Use limitation
This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

Access constraints
licence
Other constraints
These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.

Resource constraints

File type
Portable Network Graphic
Linkage
Creative Commons by Attribution logo

Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license

Use constraints
licence
Other constraints
This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=VMS_Bathy_Processing when using these data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3244
+61 3 6232 3351 (facsimile)

Distributor

Fees
Free
Planned available datetime
2016-09-19T00:00:00
Units of distribution
MB
Transfer size
412.7
Distribution format
  • csv, Excel, HTF, text, Word

OnLine resource
GET DATA

Download point for the data

OnLine resource
PROJECT HOME PAGE

Public information for ASAC project 2652

OnLine resource
VIEW RELATED INFORMATION

Citation reference for this metadata record and dataset

Resource lineage

Statement
The Ashtech GPS unit is not currently licensed to receive differential corrections and the AAD are not aware when they last paid for the annual subscription. A error value still exists for the Transducer/GPS offset, even after the script correction. A 5m error value has been applied in the horizontal accuracy calculation spreadsheet for this correction. The best assessment of the horizontal accuracy is therefore Order 2.
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2011-05-18 - record created by Dave Watts. 2016-05-30 - record updated by David Smith - parent ID, Summary, Purpose, Access Constraints, Personnel, Spatial Coverage, Temporal Coverage, Keywords. 2016-09-19 - David Smith added a Related URL, Distribution Information and edited Access Constraints to make the data available for download.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/VMS_Bathy_Processing

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

REEVE, JONO
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
+61 3 6232 3106

Author

WATTS, DAVE JOHN
CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research
Castray Esplanade
Hobart
Tasmania
7000
Australia
+61 3 6232 5062

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC
Title
Parent Metadata Record
Citation identifier
AAD_voyage_soundings

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
f646238e-f6b4-45c7-a0d1-584f28ea2636

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2016-05-30T01:56:07

Identifier

Description
metadata.extraction_date

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
8.6

Metadata linkage
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/VMS_Bathy_Processing

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2016-05-30T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2017-04-26

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
Edition
2014
Other citation details
Version 1
Title
DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
 
 

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