AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Lithospheric Mantle WMS

This service represents models of the structure and composition of the lithospheric mantle. The service currently delivers grids generated from modelling of the structure and composition of the lithospheric mantle at an Australian continental scale using the LitMod platform.

Tags: Asthenosphere, LitMod, Lithosphere, Mantle, Published_External, WMS, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
AusAEM Year 1 NT/QLD: TEMPEST® airborne electromagnetic data and Em Flow® conductivity estimates

The AusAEM Year 1 NT/QLD Airborne Electromagnetic Survey covers the Newcastle Waters and Alice Springs 1:1 Million map sheets in the Northern Territory and the Normanton and Cloncurry 1:1 Million map sheets in Queensland. CGG Aviation (Australia) Pty. Ltd. flew the 67,700-line kilometre survey between 2017 and 2018 using the TEMPEST® airborne electromagnetic system.   Flown at 20-kilometre line spacing, data were acquired and processed under contract to Geoscience Australia. 


This data package supersedes and replaces two earlier releases: June 11, 2018, and December 2018 (eCatID 120948) with revised calibrations and processing.  Along with the regionally spaced (20 km) flight lines, it now includes 1,500 line kilometres of infill flying that was funded by private exploration companies and not previously released in view of time-bounded confidentiality agreements. The survey was commissioned by Geoscience Australia as part of the Exploring for the Future (EFTF) program. The EFTF program is led by Geoscience Australia (GA), in collaboration with the Geological Surveys of the Northern Territory, Queensland, South Australia and Western Australia, and is investigating the potential mineral, energy and groundwater resources in northern Australia and South Australia. The EFTF is a four-year $100.5 million investment by the Australian Government in driving the next generation of resource discoveries in northern Australia, boosting economic development across this region. This Data Release (Phase 1) Package contains the final survey deliverables produced by the contractor CGG, including:  

a)   The operations and processing report.

b)   Final processed electromagnetic, magnetic and elevation point located line data.

c)   Final processed electromagnetic, magnetic and elevation grids.

d)   Conductivity estimates generated by the EM Flow® conductivity depth-imaging algorithm.

e)   Graphical multi-plots of line data and EM Flow® conductivity sections.

f)   Graphical stacked EM Flow® conductivity sections.

g)   ESRI shape-files containing the flight line locations. 


An updated release package (Phase 2), which contains results from our in-house inversion of the EM data (from this Phase 1 release), which includes the regional and infill areas are downloadable from the link provided in the Downloads tab.

Tags: AEM, AusAEM, EARTH SCIENCES, HVC_144498, Published_External, TEMPEST, airborne, electromagnetic
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Magnetotellurics WFS

This OGC compliant service provides access to magnetotelluric data and associated products, which have been produced by Geoscience Australia’s Magnetotelluric Program. This program includes regional magnetotelluric projects and the Australian Lithospheric Architecture Magnetotelluric Project (AusLAMP), a collaborative project between Geoscience Australia, the State and Northern Territory geological surveys, universities, and other research organisations. The data provided in this service comprise resistivity model depth sections and the locations of sites used in these studies.

Tags: AusLAMP, Australia, EFTF, Exploring for the Future, Magnetotellurics, Published_External, Resistivity Model, WFS, geology, geophysics, geoscience, magnetotellurics, mineral exploration, petroleum exploration, resitivity model, seismic, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
West Musgrave Base of Cenozoic Surface WCS

This service delivers the base of Cenozoic surface and Cenozoic thickness grids for the west Musgrave province.  The gridded data are a product of 3D palaeovalley modelling based on airborne electromagnetic conductivity, borehole and geological outcrop data, carried out as part of Geoscience Australia's Exploring for the Future programme.  The West Musgrave 3D palaeovalley model report and data files are available at https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/149152.

Tags: Australia, Cenozoic, EFTF, Exploring For The Future, Groundwater, Palaeovalley, Published_External, Surface, Thickness, WCS, West Musgrave, WestMusgrave, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Geomorphic features of the Antarctic margin and Southern Ocean 2012 WFS

Publicly available bathymetry and geophysical data has been used to map geomorphic features of the Antarctic continental margin and adjoining ocean basins at scales of 1:1-2 million. The key bathymetry datasets used were GEBCO08 and ETOPO2 satellite bathymetry (Smith &amp; Sandwell 1997), in addition to seismic lines in key areas. Twenty-seven geomorphic units were identified based on interpretation of the seafloor bathymetry with polygons digitised by hand in ArcGIS.

Tags: Antarctic, Earth Sciences, Published_External, Southern Ocean, WFS, geomorphology, marine, seabed, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Eromanga Basin - Unconventional Hydrocarbons WMS

Publicly available data was compiled to provide a common information base for resource development, environmental and regulatory decisions in the Eromanga Basin region. This web service summarises shale resources and coal seam gas prospectivity of the Eromanga Basin.

Tags: Australia, Eromanga Basin, Petroleum, Published_External, TEGI, Trusted Environmental And Geological Information, Unconventional Oil And Gas, WMS, Web Service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Layered Geology Of Australia WFS

The Layered Geology of Australia web map service is a seamless national coverage of Australia’s surface and subsurface geology. Geology concealed under younger cover units are mapped by effectively removing the overlying stratigraphy (Liu et al., 2015). This dataset is a layered product and comprises five chronostratigraphic time slices: Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic, Neoproterozoic, and Pre-Neoproterozoic. As an example, the Mesozoic time slice (or layer) shows Mesozoic age geology that would be present if all Cenozoic units were removed. The Pre-Neoproterozoic time slice shows what would be visible if all Neoproterozoic, Paleozoic, Mesozoic, and Cenozoic units were removed. The Cenozoic time slice layer for the national dataset was extracted from Raymond et al., 2012. Surface Geology of Australia, 1:1 000 000 scale, 2012 edition. Geoscience Australia, Canberra.

Tags: Australia, Cenozoic, Chronostratigraphic Mapping, EFTF, Earth Sciences, Exploring For The Future, Geology, Geosciences, Layered geology, Mesozoic, Neoproterozoic, Paleozoic, Pre-Neoproterozoic, Published_External, Solid geology, WFS, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
North Bowen Basin Region - Ecology MapServer

Publicly available baseline ecology data are compiled to provide a common information base for environment, resource development and regulatory decisions in the north Bowen Basin region. This web service summarises existing knowledge of the ecosystems and environmental assets in the north Bowen Basin region.

Tags: Australia, Ecology, Ecosystems, Environmental Assets, Environmental Protection, MapServer, North Bowen Basin, Published_External, TEGI, Trusted Environmental And Geological Information, Web Service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Upper Burdekin Chloride Mass Balance Recharge MapServer

The Upper Burdekin Chloride Mass Balance Recharge web service depicts the recharge rates have been estimated at borehole locations in the Nulla and McBride basalt provinces. Using rainfall rates, rainfall chemistry and groundwater chemistry, the recharge rates have been estimated through the Chloride Mass Balance approach.

Tags: Australia, Chloride mass balance, EFTF, Earth Sciences, Exploring for the Future, MapServer, McBride Basalt, Nulla, Published_External, QLD, Queensland, UB, Upper Burdekin, rainfall, recharge, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Cooper Basin Region - Lake Eyre Basin Groundwater WMS

Publicly available groundwater data have been compiled to provide a common information base to inform environmental, resource development and regulatory decisions in the Cooper Basin region. This web service summarises salinity, water levels, resource size, potential aquifer yield and surface water–groundwater interactions for the Lake Eyre Basin located within the Cooper Basin region.

Tags: Australia, Cooper Basin, Geology, Groundwater, Lake Eyre Basin, Published_External, TEGI, Trusted Environmental And Geological Information, WMS, Web Service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Cooper Basin Region - Cooper Basin Groundwater MapServer

Publicly available groundwater data have been compiled to provide a common information base to inform environmental, resource development and regulatory decisions in the Cooper Basin region. This web service summarises salinity and water levels for the Cooper Basin located within the Cooper Basin region.

Tags: Australia, Cooper Basin, Geology, Groundwater, MapServer, Published_External, TEGI, Trusted Environmental And Geological Information, Web Service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Improving Ground Motion Analysis in Papua New Guinea Using Raspberry Shake Instruments

Papua New Guinea (PNG) is among the most earthquake-prone regions globally, yet effective seismic monitoring remains limited due to sparse station coverage and challenges in data transmission and continuity. To address this, we implemented an automated ground-motion reporting system using waveform data from publicly available Raspberry Shake (RS) instruments recently deployed in PNG. The workflow is based on established ground-motion seismic processing procedures but is tailored and lightweight for low-cost, high-noise instruments.&nbsp;Adaptations include parallel processing for rapid execution and a manual review step for waveforms with artifacts. The system automatically retrieves waveform data, processes them to compute key shaking metrics - peak ground acceleration (PGA), peak ground velocity (PGV), and intensity measures - and distributes concise ground-motion reports via email within minutes of an event.&nbsp;This work demonstrates how standard methodologies can be adapted to extend ground-motion analysis in data-sparse regions using low-cost seismic networks.

Presented at the 2025 Australian Earthquake Engineering Society (AEES) National Conference

Tags: Papua New Guinea, Published_External, Seismology and Seismic Exploration, ground motion, raspberry shake, raspberry shake instruments, seismic hazard assessment, seismic monitoring
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Cooper Basin Region - Other Resources WMS

Publicly available geological data in the Cooper Basin region are compiled to produce statements of existing knowledge for natural hydrogen, hydrogen storage, coal and mineral occurrences. This web service summarises mineral potential in the Cooper Basin region.

Tags: Australia, CCS, Coal, Cooper Basin, Hydrocarbons, Hydrogen, Minerals, Published_External, TEGI, Trusted Environmental And Geological Information, Undiscovered Resources, WMS, Web Services, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Upper Burdekin Chloride Mass Balance Recharge WMS

The Upper Burdekin Chloride Mass Balance Recharge web service depicts the recharge rates have been estimated at borehole locations in the Nulla and McBride basalt provinces. Using rainfall rates, rainfall chemistry and groundwater chemistry, the recharge rates have been estimated through the Chloride Mass Balance approach.

Tags: Australia, Chloride mass balance, EFTF, Earth Sciences, Exploring for the Future, McBride Basalt, Nulla, Published_External, QLD, Queensland, UB, Upper Burdekin, WMS, rainfall, recharge, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
East Kimberley Remotely Sensed Products WCS

This web service contains a selection of remotely sensed raster products used in the Exploring for the Future (EFTF) East Kimberley Groundwater Project.
Selected products were derived from LiDAR, Landsat (5, 7, and 8), and Sentinel-2 data.  Datasets include: 1) mosaic 5 m digital elevation model (DEM) with shaded relief; 2) vegetation structure stratum and substratum classes; 3) Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) 20th, 50th, and 80th percentiles; 4) Tasselled Cap exceedance summaries; 5) Normalised Difference Moisture Index (NDMI) and Normalised Difference Wetness Index (NDWI).
Landsat spectral reflectance products can be used to highlight land cover characteristics such as brightness, greenness and wetness, and vegetation condition; Sentinel-2 datasets help to detect vegetation moisture stress or waterlogging; LiDAR datasets providing a five meter DEM and vegetation structure stratum classes for detailed analysis of vegetation and relief.

Tags: DEM, Digital Elevation Model, Landsat, LiDAR, NDMI, NDVI, Normalised Difference Moisture Index, Normalised Difference Vegetation Index, Published_External, Sentinel-2, Surface Moisture, Tasselled Cap Exceedance Summary, Vegetation Structure Stratum, Vegetation Structure Stratum Classes, WCS, hillshade, satellite imagery, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Evaluation of the Tropical Cyclone Risk Model at Geoscience Australia Using AWS Observations

Severe wind from tropical cyclones (TC) can cause significant damage to property and infrastructure, and accurately predicting these impacts is essential for ensuring community safety. At Geoscience Australia (GA), the Tropical Cyclone Risk Model (TCRM) is an open-source statistical-parametric tool designed to estimate the severe wind hazards posed by TCs (https://github.com/GeoscienceAustralia/tcrm).



To assess the performance of TCRM, all TCs impacting Australia from 1998 to 2023 were simulated using various wind profile settings. Since TCRM currently lacks adjustments for local landscape effects on wind speed (e.g., topographic enhancements or variations due to vegetation or built environments), GA’s wind multiplier was applied to convert TCRM’s regional wind to local wind for each TC. Additionally, a new multiplier, derived from the Parallelized Large-Eddy Simulation Model (PALM), was used to calculate local wind. The local winds from these two multipliers were then compared and validated against 1-minute Automatic Weather Station (AWS) observations from the Bureau of Meteorology (BoM).&nbsp;



The results indicate that the Willoughby wind profile outperforms other wind profiles, with a mean sea level pressure error of just 0.2 hPa compared to AWS observations over the mainland. Although the local wind from both multipliers aligns closely across 82 AWS stations (a mean peak wind gust error of -1 m/s for the GA multiplier and 0.2 m/s for the new multiplier), significant discrepancies may occur in regions with steep mountain ranges, urban areas with high-rise buildings, and other areas with complex topography.





Presented at the 31st Conference of the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (AMOS) 2025

Tags: Meteorology, Published_External, evaluation, severe wind, tropical cyclone
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Galilee Basin - Conventional Hydrocarbons WMS

Publicly available data was compiled to provide a common information base for resource development, environmental and regulatory decisions in the Galilee Basin. This web service summarises oil and gas prospectivity of the Galilee Basin.

Tags: Australia, Conventional Oil And Gas, Galilee Basin, Petroleum, Published_External, TEGI, Trusted Environmental And Geological Information, WMS, Web Service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Cover Models in the Darling-Curnamona-Delamerian WMTS

This service delivers grids for the depth below ground level of base of Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic and Neoproterozoic surfaces in the Darling-Curnamona-Delamerian (DCD) region.  The surfaces are a product of a layered cover model characterising depth and thickness of key stratigraphic sequences.  The model was generated using Loop 3D (https://loop3d.org), an open-source 3D probabilistic geological and geophysical modelling platform, using a selection of depth estimates from AEM interpretation, stratigraphic boreholes and interpretation of depth of magnetisation as inputs.

Tags: Australia, Cover Model, DCD, Darling-Curnamona-Delamerian, EFTF, Exploring For The Future, Geology, Geophysics, Published_External, Subsurface, Surfaces, WMTS, cover model, geology, geophysics, subsurface, surfaces, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
North Bowen Basin - Unconventional Hydrocarbons MapServer

Publicly available data was compiled to provide a common information base for resource development, environmental and regulatory decisions in the north Bowen Basin. This web service summarises tight gas, shale resources and coal seam gas prospectivity of the north Bowen Basin.

Tags: Australia, MapServer, North Bowen Basin, Petroleum, Published_External, TEGI, Trusted Environmental And Geological Information, Unconventional Oil And Gas, Web Service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Galilee Basin - Unconventional Hydrocarbons WMS

Publicly available data was compiled to provide a common information base for resource development, environmental and regulatory decisions in the Galilee Basin. This web service summarises tight gas, shale resources and coal seam gas prospectivity of the Galilee Basin.

Tags: Australia, Galilee Basin, Petroleum, Published_External, TEGI, Trusted Environmental And Geological Information, Unconventional Oil And Gas, WMS, Web Service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Archean alkaline and related igneous rocks of Australia WFS

The Archean alkaline and related igneous rocks of Australia web map service depicts the spatial representation of the alkaline and related rocks of Archean age. All are from the Pilbara and Yilgarn Cratons of Western Australia.

Tags: Alkaline rocks, Archean, Australia, EFTF, Earth Sciences, Exploring for the future, Igneous rocks, Published_External, WFS, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Geomorphic features of the Antarctic margin and Southern Ocean 2012 WMS

Publicly available bathymetry and geophysical data has been used to map geomorphic features of the Antarctic continental margin and adjoining ocean basins at scales of 1:1-2 million. The key bathymetry datasets used were GEBCO08 and ETOPO2 satellite bathymetry (Smith &amp; Sandwell 1997), in addition to seismic lines in key areas. Twenty-seven geomorphic units were identified based on interpretation of the seafloor bathymetry with polygons digitised by hand in ArcGIS.

Tags: Antarctic, Earth Sciences, Published_External, Southern Ocean, WMS, geomorphology, marine, seabed, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Estimates of Geological and Geophysical Surfaces WCS

This service provides Estimates of Geological and Geophysical Surfaces (EGGS). The data comes from cover thickness models based on magnetic, airborne electromagnetic and borehole measurements of the depth of stratigraphic and chronostratigraphic surfaces and boundaries.

Tags: Cenozoic, Cover Thickness, Depth To Basement, Earth Sciences, Mesozoic, Neoproterozoic, North Australian Craton, Northern Territory, OZ SEEBASE 2021, Paleozoic, Published_External, Queensland, WCS, depth to basement, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Intrusion-Hosted Ni-Cu-PGE Sulfide Deposit Prospectivity MapServer

This web map service provides visualisations of the datasets used as inputs into the analysis of potential for tholeiitic intrusion-hosted Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits in Australia, and the resulting outputs.  The datasets included in this service cover the four mineral system components incorporated in the conceptual model for the formation of tholeiitic intrusion-hosted Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits : (1) energy sources or drivers of the ore-forming system; (2) crustal and mantle lithospheric architecture; (3) sources of ore constituents (i.e., Ni, PGE, Cu, S in magmatic systems); and (4) gradients in ore depositional physico-chemical parameters.  The results of the analysis are published in the report "Potential for intrusion-hosted Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide deposits in Australia: A continental-scale analysis of mineral system prospectivity. http://dx.doi.org/10.11636/Record.2016.001".

Tags: Australia, Geochemistry, Geology, Geophysics, MapServer, Ni-Cu-PGE mineral system prospectivity, Published_External, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
2024-25 Geoscience Australia Annual Report

The 2024-25 Geoscience Australia Annual Report was tabled in Parliament on 5 November 2025, and includes relevant mandatory reporting requirements, the Annual Performance Statements reflecting our key performance measures and the Financial Statements providing a transparent account of the expenditure of public funds.

The report is also available on our website: https://www.ga.gov.au/about/corporate-documents/annual-report

Tags: Annual Report, Human Society, Published_External, annual performance statements, financial statements, legislative requirement
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Cooper Basin - Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide WMS

Publicly available data was compiled to provide a common information base for resource development, and environmental and regulatory decisions in the Cooper Basin. This web service summarises the geological storage of carbon dioxide prospectivity of the Cooper Basin.

Tags: Australia, CCS, Carbon Storage, Cooper Basin, Geology, Published_External, TEGI, Trusted Environmental And Geological Information, WMS, Web Service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Adavale Basin - Conventional Hydrocarbons MapServer

Publicly available data was compiled to provide a common information base for resource development, environmental and regulatory decisions in the Adavale Basin. This web service summarises oil and gas prospectivity of the Adavale Basin.

Tags: Adavale Basin, Australia, Conventional Oil And Gas, MapServer, Petroleum, Published_External, TEGI, Trusted Environmental And Geological Information, Web Service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
In defence of low hazard in stable continental regions: the likelihood of the 1991 seismic hazard map of Australia being correct

The hazard factors in every version of AS 1170.4 since 1993 have been based on a seismic hazard map published in 1991. In this paper I statistically test the validity of that 1991 map.


Two methods are used to calculate the hazard for 24+ sites across Australia. Firstly, for each site I calculate how many standard deviations (?1) separate the 1991 hazard value from the calculated PSHA value. Secondly, the magnitude frequency distribution (MFD; i.e. a and b values) is adjusted so that the calculated hazard matches the 1991 hazard value. The number of standard deviations (?2) in the MFD that separate the adjusted MFD differs from the best estimate MFD is subsequently calculated. The first method was applied using four seismic source models (AUS6, DIM-AUS, NSHM13 and these combined), while the second method used NSHM13 only. The average number of standard deviations was calculated from the best 20 of the 24 sites. These statistics are considered a test the validity of the 1991 map. The two methods using five models in total all give similar results. The 1991 map is found, on average, to overestimate the hazard by 3 standard deviations. This suggests that the 1991 map is best described as a 95th+ percentile map.


Practitioners using this map, whether for setting building standards or assessing insurance exposure, need to be conscious that the seismic design values are not scientifically valid relative to modern mean probabilistic seismic hazard assessments.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, Published_External, earthquake hazard
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data