AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
AUSGeoid98 v.1.0 data files: Wilson (sf52-09)

AUSGeoid98 data files contain a 2 minute grid of AUSGeoid98 data covering the Australian region, which you can use to interpolate geoid-ellipsoid separations for the positions required.You can use your own interpolation software, or you can use Geoscience Australia's Windows Interpolation software (Winter). The data files are text files in a standard format that cover the same area as standard topographic map areas. Files covering both 1:250,000 (approximately 100 x 150 km) and 1:1,000,000 (approximately 400 x 600 km) map areas are available. There is a 4 minute overlap on all sides of each area. Data format: AUSGeoid98 data files have a header record at the start of each file, to distinguish them from the superseded AUSGeoid93 data files. AUSGeoid98 data files show the geoid-ellipsoid separation to 3 decimal places, while the superseded AUSGeoid93 data files showed only 2 decimal places. AUSGeoid98 deflections of the vertical were computed from the geoid-ellipsoid separation surface, while the AUSGeoid93 deflections of the vertical were computed from OSU91A.

Tags: AU, AUSGeoid98, Geodesy, Geodetic Data, Published_External, dataset, geodesy
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Lalngang 1:50 000 topographic map

Product Specifications Coverage: Partial coverage, predominantly in northern Australia, along major transport routes, and other selected areas. About 1000 maps have been published to date. Currency: Ranges from 1968 to 2006. Coordinates: Geographical and UTM. Datum: AGD66, new edition WGS84; AHD. Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator UTM. Medium: Paper, flat copies only.

Tags: 50K scale, AU-NT, Published_External, Topographic Map, Topology, topography
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Walsh 1:250 000, R502 historical topographic map

The R502 series of maps has been replaced by the National Topographic Map Series (NTMS). The R502 series consists of 542 map sheets and covers Australia at a scale of 1:250,000. It was compiled from aerial photography, but only about one quarter of the series was contoured. The standard sheet size is 1 degree of latitude by 1.5 degrees of longitude. Transverse Mercator map projection and Clark 1858 datum were used. Coverage of the country was completed in 1968.

Tags: 250K scale, AU_QLD, Published_External, Topographic Map, Topology
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Everard 1:250 000 GIS Dataset

This data is part of the series of maps that covers the whole of Australia at a scale of 1:250 000 (1cm on a map represents 2.5km on the ground) and comprises 513 maps. This is the largest scale at which published topographic maps cover the entire continent. 
Data is downloadable in various distribution formats.

Tags: 250K scale, AU-SA, Earth Sciences, GIS Dataset, Published_External, dataset, topography
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Mahanewo 1:100 000 topographic map

At this scale 1cm on the map represents 1km on the ground. Each map covers a minimum area of 0.5 degrees longitude by 0.5 degrees latitude or about 54 kilometres by 54 kilometres. The contour interval is 20 metres. Many maps are supplemented by hill shading. These maps contain natural and constructed features including road and rail infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, contours, localities and some administrative boundaries. Product Specifications Coverage: Australia is covered by more than 3000 x 1:100 000 scale maps, of which 1600 have been published as printed maps. Unpublished maps are available as compilations. Currency: Ranges from 1961 to 2009. Average 1997. Coordinates: Geographical and either AMG or MGA coordinates. Datum: AGD66, GDA94; AHD Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator UTM. Medium: Printed maps: Paper, flat and folded copies. Compilations: Paper or film, flat copies only.

Tags: 100K scale, AU-SA, Published_External, Topographic Map, Topology, topography
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Gordon Downs 1:250 000 GIS Dataset

This data is part of the series of maps that covers the whole of Australia at a scale of 1:250 000 (1cm on a map represents 2.5km on the ground) and comprises 513 maps. This is the largest scale at which published topographic maps cover the entire continent. 
Data is downloadable in various distribution formats.

Tags: 250K scale, AU-WA, Earth Sciences, GIS Dataset, Published_External, dataset, topography
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Rockhampton Monto, Mundubbera Gravity (P199649), gravity point data

Gravity data measures small changes in gravity due to changes in the density of rocks beneath the Earth's surface. The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.
 This Rockhampton Monto, Mundubbera Gravity (P199649) contains a total of 4965 point data values acquired at a spacing of 1500 metres. The data is located in QLD and were acquired in 1996, under project No. 199649 for None.

Tags: Australia, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, NCI, Published_External, QLD, geophysical survey, geophysics, gravity, ground digital data, point, point located data, survey 199649
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Urandy 1:50 000 topographic map

Product Specifications Coverage: Partial coverage, predominantly in northern Australia, along major transport routes, and other selected areas. About 1000 maps have been published to date. Currency: Ranges from 1968 to 2006. Coordinates: Geographical and UTM. Datum: AGD66, new edition WGS84; AHD. Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator UTM. Medium: Paper, flat copies only.

Tags: 50K scale, AU-WA, Published_External, Topographic Map, Topology, topography
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
L059 Alice Springs observatory sites seismic refraction survey, NT, 1962

Seismic refraction investigations were made at five sites in the vicinity of Alice Springs, Northern Territory, by
the Bureau of Mineral Resources in August 1962. This work was done, at the request of the Bureau of Mineral Resources Observatory Group, to select the most suitable site for a seismological observatory. In view of the desirable features for such a site - a bedrock having a high seismic velocity and a bedrock at shallow depth - a site about three miles west of Alice Springs is recommended as the most suitable; the bedrock material has a velocity of 17,800 ft/s and the thickness of overburden is less than 20 ft.

Tags: AU-NT, HVC_144637, Published_External, Seismic Data seismic survey, Seismology and Seismic Exploration, geophysics, petroleum exploration, seismic refraction, seismic velocity
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Laguna Bay 1:50 000 topographic map

Product Specifications Coverage: Partial coverage, predominantly in northern Australia, along major transport routes, and other selected areas. About 1000 maps have been published to date. Currency: Ranges from 1968 to 2006. Coordinates: Geographical and UTM. Datum: AGD66, new edition WGS84; AHD. Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator UTM. Medium: Paper, flat copies only.

Tags: 50K scale, AU-QLD, Published_External, Topographic Map, Topology, topography
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Lady Loretta (P199344), gravity point data

Gravity data measures small changes in gravity due to changes in the density of rocks beneath the Earth's surface. The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.
 This Lady Loretta (P199344) contains a total of 429 point data values acquired at a spacing between 50 and 1200 metres. The data is located in QLD and were acquired in 1993, under project No. 199344 for Duffett, M..

Tags: Australia, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, NCI, Published_External, QLD, geophysical survey, geophysics, gravity, ground digital data, point, point located data, survey 199344
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Next Generation Australian Datum

Within the coming decade it is anticipated that GNSS will be capable of providing pseudorange-based positioning services with an uncertainty (1-sigma) of 3 cm (open sky) and 15 cm (tree covered) while carrier-phase positioning services supported by GNSS ground networks with an inter-station spacing of 100-200 km should achieve uncertainties of 1-2 cm in real-time.  These capabilities will improve business processes and national productivity but are also likely to encourage spatial-data collection by a broad community of users, including those without strong spatial expertise.   From a spatial-data management perspective, a challenge will emerge in that these new global services will support positioning in the International Terrestrial Reference Frame (ITRF), which is a dynamic and time dependent coordinate system, and not directly in any individual national datum, including the Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94).  GDA94 established in the 1990s, has relatively poor internal accuracy, weak linkages to the ITRF, and is held static at an epoch date nearly 2 decades ago.  Recognising that GDA94 will be incompatible with these future positioning capabilities and that the national datum will need to directly serve a wider-community of users, the Intergovernmental Committee for Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) - Permanent Committee for Geodesy (PCG) in collaboration with the CRC for Spatial Information (CRCSI) is currently examining options for revision of the datum.  This presentation will overview the drivers for further developing Australia's datum, initial concepts and indicative timeframes for implementation.

Tags: Abstract, Earth Sciences, External Publication, Published_External, geodesy
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Geoscience Australia Earthquake Catalogue

Parametric dataset of earthquakes in the Australian region, with magnitudes greater than 2.5. Includes records of instrumentally recorded earthquakes and explosions, and earthquake parameters inferred from historic documents. Threshold magnitude of completeness varies spatially and temporally. 
Value: This data has historic value, and is used in assessment of earthquake hazard, risk and potential impacts from future events. 
Scope: A catalogue of known historical earthquakes in Australia and adjacent regions.

Tags: DC2020, EARTH SCIENCES, HVC - High Value Collection, HVC_144691, Published_External
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
GSQ Southern Bowen Basin Qld potassium grid geodetic

The radiometric, or gamma-ray spectrometric method, measures the natural variations in the gamma-rays detected near the Earth's surface as the result of the natural radioactive decay of potassium (K), uranium (U) and thorium (Th). The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.
This radiometric potassium grid has a cell size of 0.001 degrees (approximately 106m) and shows potassium element concentration of the Southern Bowen Basin, Qld, 2004 in units of percent (or %). The data used to produce this grid was acquired in 2004 by the QLD Government, and consisted of 74554 line-kilometres of data at 400m line spacing and 80m terrain clearance.

Tags: Australia, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, K, NCI, Published_External, QLD, airborne digital data, gamma-ray, geophysical survey, geophysics, grid, potassium, rad, radiometrics, raster, spectrometry, survey 1072
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Groundwater nitrate in East Java, Indonesia

Surveys were carried out in East Java, Indonesia, to determine the nitrate concentrations of (a) household well waters in selected settlements, (b) certain other waters, and (c) selected soil profiles.  Nitrate concentrations in the well waters ranged from zero to 304 mg/ L, with marked differences between regions and between wells within a given settlement. The patterns of nitrate concentrations within villages as well as in and around rice fields appear to exclude the application of nitrogen fertilisers to rice fields as a significant cause of the nitrate observed in well water. Of all the nitrate sources considered, the main ones are likely to be food and feed brought from outside into villages, and which, after ingestion, are excreted in a localized way inside them, giving rise to large spatial variation in nitrate concentrations.

Tags: Earth Sciences, GA Publication, Journal, Published_External
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Breathing new life into old collections – revitalising Geoscience Australia’s Microscope Slide Based collections (AGCC 2018)

Since soon after the federation of Australia in 1901 Geoscience Australia, and its predecessors organisations, have gathered a significant collection of microscope slide based items (including: thin sections of rock, micro and nano fossils) from across Australia, Antarctica, Papua New Guinea and beyond. The samples from which the microscope slides were produced have been gathered via extensive geological mapping programs, work conducted for major Commonwealth building initiatives such as the Snowy Mountain Scheme and science expeditions. The cost of recreating this collection, if at all possible, would be measured in the $100Ms (AUS) even assuming that it was still possible to source the relevant samples.
Access to these slides is open to all but it has not been easy to locate specific slides due to the largely ledger and card catalogue management system. The fragmented nature of the management system with the increasing potential for the deterioration of physical media and the loss of access to even some of the original contributors meant that rescue work was (and still is) needed urgently.
Through the use of citizen science the project has seen the transcription of some 35,000 sample metadata and data records from a variety of hardcopy sources by a diverse group of volunteers. The availability of these data has allowed for the electronic discovery of both the microscope slides and their parent samples, and will hopefully lead to a greater utilisation of this valuable resource and enable new geoscientific insights from old resources.

Tags: Citizen Science, EARTH SCIENCES, GEOLOGY, Petrography, Published_External, Thin Section
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Weeli Wolli 1:100 000 topographic map

At this scale 1cm on the map represents 1km on the ground. Each map covers a minimum area of 0.5 degrees longitude by 0.5 degrees latitude or about 54 kilometres by 54 kilometres. The contour interval is 20 metres. Many maps are supplemented by hill shading. These maps contain natural and constructed features including road and rail infrastructure, vegetation, hydrography, contours, localities and some administrative boundaries. Product Specifications Coverage: Australia is covered by more than 3000 x 1:100 000 scale maps, of which 1600 have been published as printed maps. Unpublished maps are available as compilations. Currency: Ranges from 1961 to 2009. Average 1997. Coordinates: Geographical and either AMG or MGA coordinates. Datum: AGD66, GDA94; AHD Projection: Universal Transverse Mercator UTM. Medium: Printed maps: Paper, flat and folded copies. Compilations: Paper or film, flat copies only.

Tags: 100K scale, AU-WA, Published_External, Topographic Map, Topology, topography
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
AUSGeoid98 v.1.0 data files:  (sc56)

AUSGeoid98 data files contain a 2 minute grid of AUSGeoid98 data covering the Australian region, which you can use to interpolate geoid-ellipsoid separations for the positions required.You can use your own interpolation software, or you can use Geoscience Australia's Windows Interpolation software (Winter). The data files are text files in a standard format that cover the same area as standard topographic map areas. Files covering both 1:250,000 (approximately 100 x 150 km) and 1:1,000,000 (approximately 400 x 600 km) map areas are available. There is a 4 minute overlap on all sides of each area. Data format: AUSGeoid98 data files have a header record at the start of each file, to distinguish them from the superseded AUSGeoid93 data files. AUSGeoid98 data files show the geoid-ellipsoid separation to 3 decimal places, while the superseded AUSGeoid93 data files showed only 2 decimal places. AUSGeoid98 deflections of the vertical were computed from the geoid-ellipsoid separation surface, while the AUSGeoid93 deflections of the vertical were computed from OSU91A.

Tags: AU, AUSGeoid98, Geodesy, Geodetic Data, Published_External, dataset, geodesy
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Mt Painter, Tasmania Gravity Survey, 2008 (P200878), gravity point data

Gravity data measures small changes in gravity due to changes in the density of rocks beneath the Earth's surface. The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.
 This Mt Painter, Tasmania Gravity Survey, 2008 (P200878) contains a total of 1823 point data values acquired at a spacing between 100 and 500 metres. The data is located in TAS and were acquired in 2008, under project No. 200878 for Sinosteel Australia Pty Ltd.

Tags: Australia, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, NCI, Published_External, TAS, geophysical survey, geophysics, gravity, ground digital data, point, point located data, survey 200878
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Where's the impact. Predicting damage from TCs in sparsely populated areas

Severe TC Ilsa crossed the Western Australian coastline approximately 120 km east of Port Hedland on Thursday 13 April 2023. Observations at Bedout Island were the highest wind speeds ever recorded on standard BoM instruments (gust wind speed of 289 km/h). In anticipation of the TC, residents in the mining township of Telfer were evacuated, along with a small number of evacuees in other townships (Marble Bar, South Hedland and Nullagine). As a category 5 TC, the threat of widespread destruction was front of mind for emergency managers in Western Australia.

Geoscience Australia (GA) has established the National Hazard Impact and Risk Service (NHIRS), which provides quantitative modelled impact forecast information for tropical cyclones, large-scale wind events and earthquakes in Australia. NHIRS has been used by the Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) Intelligence Unit to support operational resource planning for TC events.

In TC Ilsa, DFES Intelligence (and GA) officers reviewed the impact predictions in the days leading up to landfall. Genuine questions were asked about the level of predicted damage, which was almost negligible across northern WA in spite of the predicted landfall intensity. Why was that the case? Was the service operating as expected? This paper highlights the challenge of educating users on the utility of impact forecasting products and communicating the components that are integrated in the impact forecast.

Presented at the 30th Conference of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) 2024

Tags: Natural Hazards, Published_External, hazard, impacts, tropical cyclone
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Half Moon Lake regolith-landform map and GIS datasets

Arcview GIS containing a regolith-landfrom map with associated site database. Most sites have a field photograph hot linked into the GIS. Complementary datasets include, digital elevation model and enhanced Landsat TM imagery.

Tags: AU-SA, DEM, Earth Sciences, GIS, GIS Dataset, Published_External, Regional, landforms, regolith
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
GSWA Kurnalpi North Doserate Grid Geodetic

The radiometric, or gamma-ray spectrometric method, measures the natural variations in the gamma-rays detected near the Earth's surface as the result of the natural radioactive decay of potassium (K), uranium (U) and thorium (Th). The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose. The terrestrial dose rate grid is derived as a linear combination of the filtered K, U and Th grids. A low pass filter is applied to this grid to generate the filtered terrestrial dose rate grid.
This GSWA Kurnalpi North Doserate Grid Geodetic has a cell size of 0.00021 degrees (approximately 22m) and shows the terrestrial dose rate of the Kurnalpi North, WA, 2013. The data used to produce this grid was acquired in 2013 by the WA Government, and consisted of 92672 line-kilometres of data at 100m line spacing and 50m terrain clearance.

Tags: Australia, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, K, NASVD, NCI, Published_External, Th, U, WA, airborne digital data, dose, dose rate, gamma-ray, geophysical survey, geophysics, grid, potassium, rad, radiometrics, raster, rate, spectrometry, survey 1263, thorium, uranium
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Complum Detailed Gravity Survey, NT (P199211), gravity point data

Gravity data measures small changes in gravity due to changes in the density of rocks beneath the Earth's surface. The data collected are processed via standard methods to ensure the response recorded is that due only to the rocks in the ground. The results produce datasets that can be interpreted to reveal the geological structure of the sub-surface. The processed data is checked for quality by GA geophysicists to ensure that the final data released by GA are fit-for-purpose.
 This Complum Detailed Gravity Survey, NT (P199211) contains a total of 1565 point data values acquired at a spacing between 10 and 80 metres. The data is located in NT and were acquired in 1992, under project No. 199211 for None.

Tags: Australia, EARTH SCIENCES, Earth sciences, GADDS2.0, NCI, NT, Published_External, geophysical survey, geophysics, gravity, ground digital data, point, point located data, survey 199211
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data