Survey metadata must accompany all subsidiary datasets and data levels.
Metadata can be provided to a Contributing Hub, in a number of digital formats (.txt, .csv, .xls), for the immediate future until the AusSeabed Metadata and Data submission tool has been developed and released for public access.
Directory Conventions
Directory name (Description)
\Docs
\Reports
\Data
Within \Docs:
the Metadata record
Within \Reports:
Pre-Acquisition Reports
Post Survey Reports
Within \Data
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Line Geometry (Ship Track including Transit details)
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As detailed in the Survey Metadata Product Specification and:
Directory Conventions
\[SurveyName_ID] – supplied as per Survey Metadata Specifications
--\SurveyDocs – supplied as per Survey Metadata Specifications
--\L0_RawData
--\Docs
--\Processed folder (On board processing, if available)
Within \Docs:
Additional Metadata describing the Raw L0 data (see L0 MBES Metadata Attributes)
Quality Assurance Report (QAX) performed over the Raw data
Patch test report for the Multibeam instrument or Currency Statement
Shapefiles
Please supply all reports in Adobe PDF format. A Report of Survey template can be found at AusSeabed Record Templates.
The reports Surveys report will include a list of the equipment and along with software used and version; how the echo sounder transducer was set up and levelled, what vertical reference was used and how depths were reduced to adopted datum. A Levelling diagram is a useful method of confirming that datum adjustments have been carried out correctly.
Checklist
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Metadata
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.csv, .xls, xml (until submission tool deployed)
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Pre-Acquistion reports
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Adobe PDF
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Post Survey report/End of Survey Report
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Adobe PDF
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Shapes/Geometries
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Shapefiles representing the line & polygon extent of the complete Survey area including Transit details, (or one of the following formats where this is not possible 2. GML 3. GeoJson)
Table 1. Checklist of data to be provided to AusSeabed for Survey Specifications.Within \L0_RawData:
Raw MBES Sensor data
Raw Backscatter
Ancillary Navigation data in POSMV or other proprietary format of any aux sensor used e.g TerraPos or Starfix
Ancillary Tide data
Raw Sub Bottom Profiler (SBP) data
Raw Conductivity, Temperature or Depth (CTD/XBT) data or Magnetic or Meteorological data
Raw Water Column data (WCD) – optional
On board processing GSFs if available