Australian Sub-bottom Profiling Guidelines

The Australian Sub-bottom Profiling Guidelines were developed by the AusSeabed community to establish a standardised approach to the acquisition of sub-bottom profiler data in an Australian context. They complement a suite of ocean best practice guidelines developed by the AusSeabed community including the Australian Multibeam Guidelines (eCat Record 121571) and the Australian Satellite Derived Bathymetry Guidelines.The guidelines provide recommended procedures for data acquisition, quality checking and data submission to the AusSeabed marine data portal. They were initially designed for use by the Australian Hydrographic Office Hydroscheme Industry Partnership Program (HIPP) to enable the acquisition of standardised, efficient and effective sub-bottom profile data for general seabed characterisation and collection of baseline data. Additionally, the guidelines may be used by any agency or party collecting seabed geophysical data in Australia’s marine jurisdiction for a range of use cases. The guidelines include a broad examination of data acquisition, basic processing for quality checking, metadata description, and guidance for data submission to AusSeabed. They do not include prescriptive equipment-specific hardware and software specifications, detailed user-defined settings or instrument preparation activities such as bench/workshop tests, personnel requirements, or provide survey costing information.

《澳大利亚海底剖面测量指南》由AusSeabed社区制定，旨在为澳大利亚语境下的海底剖面仪数据采集建立标准化方法。它们补充了AusSeabed社区开发的一系列海洋最佳实践指南，包括《澳大利亚多波束指南》（eCat记录121571）和《澳大利亚卫星测深指南》。本指南提供了数据采集、质量检查以及向AusSeabed海洋数据门户提交数据的推荐流程。其最初旨在供澳大利亚水文局水文计划行业合作项目（HIPP）使用，以获取标准化、高效且有效的海底剖面数据，用于常规海底特征描述和基线数据收集。此外，澳大利亚海洋管辖范围内任何收集海底地球物理数据的机构或方，均可将本指南用于多种应用场景。指南内容涵盖数据采集的全面审视、质量检查的基础处理、元数据描述，以及向AusSeabed提交数据的指导。本指南不包含针对特定设备的强制性软硬件规范、详细的用户自定义设置或仪器准备活动（如实验室/车间测试）、人员要求，也不提供调查成本信息。