AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
New SHRIMP U–Pb zircon ages from the South Nicholson Basin, Mount Isa Province and Georgina Basin, Northern Territory and Queensland

This record presents nine new Sensitive High Resolution Ion Micro Probe (SHRIMP) U–Pb zircon results obtained under the auspices of the Exploring for the Future (EFTF) Programme, a four year, federally funded initiative to better understand the mineral, energy and groundwater potential of northern Australia. The results presented here are derived from eight sedimentary samples and one probable tuffaceous sample together belonging to the Mount Isa Province, South Nicholson Basin and Georgina Basin.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, Geochronology, Georgina Basin, Mount Isa Orogen, Published_External, South Nicholson Basin
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
North Australian Craton IOCG Mineral Potential Assessment WMTS

This web service provides access to datasets generated by the North Australian Craton (NAC) Iron Oxide Copper Gold (IOCG) Mineral Potential Assessment. Two outputs were created: a comprehensive assessment, using all available spatial data, limiting data where possible to capture mineral systems older than 1500 ma, and; a coverage assessment, which is constrained to data that have no reliance on outcrop or age of mineralisation.

Tags: EFTF, Exploring For The Future, IOCG, Mineral Potential, North Australian Craton, Published_External, WMTS, iron oxide-copper-gold, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
MinEx CRC National Drilling Initiative (NDI) Student Study Areas

The National Drilling Initiative (NDI) manages and delivers drilling programs in multiple case study areas via MinEx CRC’s partner geological survey organisations. The NDI vision is to drill multiple holes in a region to map the regional geology and architecture and define the potential for mineral systems in 3D. The areas shown in this dataset describe the spatial locations of the MinEx cohort of student project study areas (related to but often of different scope to the NDI areas).

Tags: Geomorphology and earth surface processes, Geoscience, MinEx CRC, Mineral Exploration Cooperative Research Centre, Mineral exploration, NDI, National Drilling Initiative, Published_External, Resource geoscience, maps, student activities
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Mapping the levelized cost of electricity of conventional and lightweight silicon photovoltaics across Australia

The rapid uptake in photovoltaics (PV) over the last few decades has substantially reduced the cost of their main component — the PV module. As a result, other direct and indirect costs are becoming significant expenses in new solar projects. Nevertheless, although comparisons are often made between costs and performance at a system-level, the role and variability of location-dependent expenses (such as transport and labor) on the final costs of solar power is less widely discussed. In this paper, we evaluate the levelized cost of electricity for utility-scale solar farms across Australia. The performance of conventional PV systems featuring bi-facial glass-based crystalline silicon modules is compared to novel configurations that utilize lightweight crystalline silicon modules. For this comparison, we introduce a new method that maps the levelized cost of electricity for installed PV, accounting for differences in panel, balance-of-system, installation and transportation costs, as well as the system’s yield. The results indicate that novel lightweight PV systems show a competitive advantage in remote areas where labor and transportation costs are increased, while reduced prices of the modules and extended lifespans for the lightweight PV systems can make such technologies competitive across the whole country.


Lobo Del Canto, J.M., Walsh, S.D.C., Haynes, M. &amp; Jasieniak, J.J., 2026. Mapping the levelized cost of electricity of conventional and lightweight silicon photovoltaics across Australia. <i>Renewable Energy</i>, 257, 124758, 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2025.124758
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Tags: BUILT ENVIRONMENT AND DESIGN, Bluecap, Cost of remoteness, EARTH SCIENCES, ENGINEERING, Economic Fairways, LCoE - Levelised Cost of Electricity, National resource assessments, PV - Photovoltaics, Published_External, Remoteness, Resource Insights, Solar, Solar Photovoltaics, Techno-economics
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Lithospheric Mantle WFS

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, WFS, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Composite Gazetteer of Australia WFS

The Composite Gazetteer of Australia (CGA) is the national repository of Australia’s approved place names, drawing together data from each state, territory, and relevant Commonwealth authorities. It is the place names point database that is used by the CGA web application, https://placenames.fsdf.org.au, to deliver jurisdictional place name information as one collection. The CGA is collaborative effort - every Australian state and mainland territory provides data from its official register of geographic names, administered by its naming authority (e.g. VICNAMES in Victoria, the NSW Geographical Names Board, etc). In addition, the Australian Hydrographic Office (AHO) contributes offshore undersea feature names, and the Australian Antarctic Division (AAD) provides Antarctic place names. All data provided for the CGA is managed by respective naming authorities. Over decades, it has evolved through collaborative governance and technical innovation. The effort is coordinated under the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM), through its Australia and New Zealand Place Names Working Group (ANZPNWG), formerly Permanent Committee on Place Names (PCPN) or its predecessor, Committee for Geographical Names in Australasia (CGNA). The database is also available to search and direct download from the web application, currently https://placenames.fsdf.org.au.The spatial accuracy of the place names points varies between jurisdictions and cannot be relied upon for navigation, precise positioning, or safety-of-life applications. Any quality issues with individual data points should be referred to the relevant naming authority.

Tags: Earth Sciences, Published_External, WFS, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
West Musgrave Airborne Electromagnetics (AEM) Conductivity Grids WMTS

This service delivers airborne electromagnetics (AEM) derived conductivity grids for depth intervals representing the top 22 layers from AEM modelling in the West Musgrave region (https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/147969). The grids were generated from the AEM conductivity models released as part of the Western Resource Corridor AusAEM survey (https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/147688), the Earaheedy and Desert Strip AusAEM survey (https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/145265) and several industry surveys (https://dx.doi.org/10.26186/146278) from the West Musgraves region. The AEM conductivity models resolve important subsurface features for assessing the groundwater system including lithological boundaries, palaeovalleys and hydrostatigraphy.

Tags: AEM, Airborne Electromagnetics, Conductivity, EFTF, Exploring For The Future, Officer-Musgrave, Palaeovalleys, Published_External, WMTS, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Australian Hydrogen Projects MapServer

This web service features Australian hydrogen projects that are actively in the investigation, construction, or operating phase, and that align with green hydrogen production methods as outlined in Australia's National Hydrogen Strategy. The purpose of this dataset is to provide a detailed snapshot of hydrogen activity across Australia, and includes location data, operator/organisation details, and descriptions for all hydrogen projects listed.

Tags: Australia, Earth Sciences, Hydrogen, Map, MapServer, Projects, Published_External, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Review of the Alliance report "Seismic hazard analysis - Lucas Heights site of the high flux Australian reactor"

This product is a scan of existing documents held at Geoscience Australia library - information is as given on the interlibrary loan.

Seismic hazard analysis Lucas Heights : review. Canberra : AGSO, [2000] (15, [8] leaves) -- Review of parameter suitability for a PSHA at Lucas Heights for ARPANSA : meeting held at Olim's Canberra, 6-7 November 2000 ([6] leaves) -- Minutes of Review Team meeting, 18 September 2002 -- Submission to ARPANSA on site geological investigations (RRP-7500-3BEIN-002) (CD ROM) -- RRRP-7500-3BEIN--Additonal geological investigations (CD ROM) -- Tasks 1 &amp; 2 report (CD ROM)

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, Published_External
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Space Weather Hazard Modelling - Geomagnetically Induced Currents

A two page flyer describing Geoscience Australia's modelling capability for space weather (Geomagnetically Induced Current - GIC) impacts on critical infrastructure such as the electricity grid. The flyer also describes the long established geomagnetism program which includes the operation of the Australian Geomagnetic Observatory Network (AGON), geoelectric monitoring and calibration of direction finding (compasses) and magnetometers.

Tags: Community safety, Magnetism and Palaeomagnetism, Published_External, geomagnetically induced currents, geomagnetism, space weather
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Seabed morphology and geomorphology of Zeehan Marine Park, south-eastern Australia, Version 1 MapServer

This ESRI map (web) service contains seabed morphology and geomorphology information for a subset area of Zeehan Marine Park (South-east Marine Parks Network) and is intended for use by marine park managers, regulators and other stakeholders. This web service uses the data product published in McNeil et al. (2023); eCat Record 148620.

Tags: Geomorphology, Geomorphology and Earth Surface Processes, MapServer, Mapping, Marine, Morphology, Parks Australia, Published_External, Seabed, Spatial, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Topographic Map Indexes WMS

This service contains the topographic map indexes of 1:1 Million, 1:250,000 and 1:100,000 scale maps available from Geoscience Australia. These indexes drive the online topographic map index dashboards and contain value-add attributes, including a link to download the map. There are two 1:250,000 layers in the index; one layer which represents the new 1:250,000 AUSTopo Australian Digital Map Series index and one layer which represents the existing 1:250,000 scale index. The datasets for the 1:1 Million, 1:100,000 and existing 1:250,000 scale maps can be found in the eCat record 145830. The dataset for the 1:250,000 AUSTopo Australian Digital Topographic Map Series can be found in the eCat record 148692.

Tags: 1:1 Million, 1:100k, 1:250k, Australia, Earth Sciences, Map Index, Map Indexes, MapServer, Published_External, Topographic, Topography, WMS, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Cooper Basin Region - Eromanga 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 Eromanga Basin located within the Cooper Basin region.

Tags: Australia, Cooper Basin, Eromanga Basin, Geology, Groundwater, Published_External, TEGI, Trusted Environmental And Geological Information, WMS, Web Service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Australia's Land Borders WMS

Australia's Land Borders is a product within the Foundation Spatial Data Framework (FSDF) suite of datasets. It is endorsed by the ANZLIC – the Spatial Information Council and the Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping (ICSM) as the nationally consistent representation of the land borders as published by the Australian states and territories. It is topologically correct in relation to published jurisdictional land borders and the Geocoded National Address File (G-NAF).

The purpose of this product is to provide: (i) a building block which enables development of other national datasets; (ii) integration with other geospatial frameworks in support of data analysis; and (iii) visualisation of these borders as cartographic depiction on a map. Although this service depicts land borders, it is not nor does it suggests to be a legal definition of these borders. Therefore it cannot and must not be used for those use-cases pertaining to legal context.

Tags: Australia, Corner marker, FSDF, MHWM, Published_External, WMS, administration boundaries, coastline, land border, mean high water, monument, state border, termination point, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Adavale Basin Region - Geology MapServer

Publicly available geology data are compiled to provide a common information base for resource development and regulatory decisions in the Adavale Basin region. This web service summarises the geology of the Adavale Basin.

Tags: Adavale Basin, Australia, Geology, MapServer, Published_External, TEGI, Trusted Environmental And Geological Information, Web Service, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Adavale Basin - Geological Storage of Carbon Dioxide MapServer

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

Tags: Adavale Basin, Australia, CCS, Carbon Storage, Geology, MapServer, Published_External, TEGI, Trusted Environmental And Geological Information, Web Service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Oxygen isotopic heterogeneity in the Temora-2 reference zircon

For the past decade and a half, Geoscience Australia has distributed zircon from a portion of the Middledale Gabbroic Diorite under the label “Temora-2”. This reference zircon was originally developed as a reference material for use in ion microprobe U-Th-Pb geochronological analyses. As ion probe capability has increased to allow the measurements of other isotopic systems at geologically useful precision and accuracy, the Temora-2 zircon has remained a convenient reference material to use for those systems. However, the suitability of this material for non-geochronological applications must be continuously reassessed.

This study demonstrates that some (but not all) aliquots of the Temora-2 zircon, distributed by Geoscience Australia to analytical laboratories worldwide, have δ18O values up to 1‰ lower than the reference laser fluorination δ18O value quoted in Black et al. (2004). Although the long and complex collection history of this material makes it difficult to pinpoint the cause of this discrepancy, we suspect it relates to material from two or more boulders from the Temora-2 site, with different δ18O values, being sampled and mixed together in the field prior to storage at Geoscience Australia. Therefore, oxygen isotope measurements on SIMS mounts where Temora is the only reference zircon may be biased towards heavier values by up to 1‰, unless there are additional constrains on the actual δ18O value of the specific aliquot of Temora-2 zircons placed on that particular ion probe mount. We recommend that future oxygen isotope work should use a reference zircon other than Temora-2, until Geoscience Australia can replace the current stock of heterogeneous Temora-2 material with zircon which has a uniform δ18O value.

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, Published_External, Temora-2, heterogeneity, isotopic, oxygen, reference zircon
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Onshore Active and Passive Seismic Surveys WFS

This web service delivers metadata for onshore active and passive seismic surveys conducted across the Australian continent by Geoscience Australia and its collaborative partners.  For active seismic this metadata includes survey header data, line location and positional information, and the energy source type and parameters used to acquire the seismic line data. For passive seismic this metadata includes information about station name and location, start and end dates, operators and instruments.   The metadata are maintained in Geoscience Australia's onshore active seismic and passive seismic database, which is being added to as new surveys are undertaken.  Links to datasets, reports and other publications for the seismic surveys are provided in the metadata.

Tags: Active, EFTF, Exploring For the Future, Passive, Published_External, Seismic, WFS, active seismic, geophysical survey, geophysics, land seismic, onshore seismic, passive seismic, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Petroleum Source Rock and Fluids Atlas - Onshore And Offshore WMS

The Source Rock and Fluids Atlas delivery and publication services provide up-to-date information on petroleum (organic) geochemical and geological data from Geoscience Australia's Organic Geochemistry Database (ORGCHEM). The sample data provides the spatial distribution of petroleum source rocks and their derived fluids (natural gas and crude oil) from boreholes and field sites in onshore and offshore Australian basins. The services provide characterisation of source rocks through the visualisation of Pyrolysis, Organic Petrology (Maceral Groups, Maceral Reflectance) and Organoclast Maturity data.  The services also provide molecular and isotopic characterisation of source rocks and petroleum through the visualisation of Bulk, Whole Oil GC, Gas, Compound-Specific Isotopic Analyses (CSIA) and Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry (GCMS) data tables. Interpretation of these data enables the characterisation of petroleum source rocks and identification of their derived petroleum fluids that comprise two key elements of petroleum systems analysis. The composition of petroleum determines whether or not it can be an economic commodity and if other processes (e.g. CO2 removal and sequestration; cryogenic liquefaction of LNG) are required for development.

Tags: EFTF, Published_External, WMS, carbon isotope geochemistry, crude oil, helium isotope geochemistry, hydrocarbons, hydrogen isotope geochemistry, kinetic composition, molecular composition, natural gas, oil and gas exploration, organic petrology, petroleum geology, source rocks, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Cover Models in the Darling-Curnamona-Delamerian WCS

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, WCS, cover model, geology, geophysics, subsurface, surfaces, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Geoscience Australia Sentinel-2A Observation Attributes Collection 3 - DEA Surface Reflectance OA (Sentinel-2A MSI)

Background
This is a sub-product of Geoscience Australia Sentinel-2A MSI Analysis Ready Data Collection 3 - DEA Surface Reflectance 3 (Sentinel-2A). See the parent product for more information.

The contextual information related to a dataset is just as valuable as the data itself. This information, also known as data provenance or data lineage, includes details such as the data’s origins, derivations, methodology and processes. It allows the data to be replicated and increases the reliability of derivative applications.

Data that is well-labelled and rich in spectral, spatial and temporal attribution can allow users to investigate patterns through space and time. Users are able to gain a deeper understanding of the data environment, which could potentially pave the way for future forecasting and early warning systems.

The surface reflectance data produced by NBART requires accurate and reliable data provenance. Attribution labels, such as the location of cloud and cloud shadow pixels, can be used to mask out these particular features from the surface reflectance analysis, or used as training data for machine learning algorithms. Additionally, the capacity to automatically exclude or include pre-identified pixels could assist with emerging multi-temporal and machine learning analysis techniques.

What this product offers
This product contains a range of pixel-level observation attributes (OA) derived from satellite observation, providing rich data provenance:
    - null pixels
    - clear pixels
    - cloud pixels
    - cloud shadow pixels
    - snow pixels
    - water pixels
    - spectrally contiguous pixels
    - terrain shaded pixels

It also features the following pixel-level information pertaining to satellite, solar and sensing geometries:
    - solar zenith
    - solar azimuth
    - satellite view
    - incident angle
    - exiting angle
    - azimuthal incident
    - azimuthal exiting
    - relative azimuth
    - timedelta

Tags: EARTH SCIENCES, Earth observation, Published_External, analysis ready data, cloud masking, observation attributes, satellite images
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
East Kimberley Remotely Sensed Products WMTS

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, WMTS, hillshade, satellite imagery, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data
Paleozoic Alkaline And Related Igneous Rocks Of Australia MapServer

The Paleozoic alkaline and related igneous rocks of Australia web map service depicts the spatial representation of the alkaline and related rocks of Paleozoic age.

Tags: Alkaline rocks, Australia, EFTF, Earth Sciences, Exploring for the future, MapServer, Paleozoic, Published_External, web service
Organization: Geoscience Australia Data