AuSEABED

The auSEABED was created by Dr. Chris Jenkins, a former staff member of School of Geoscience, to describe the materials of the Australian Maritime Region - in all, an area comprising 1/12 of the earth's globe. Because of Australia's relatively small population base and inadequate funding for at-sea science, maximum use of existing data had to be made to achieve a workable mapping. This motivated research into the use of datasets that were diverse in their methods, navigation, technologies, aims, standards, formats - and whether numeric or linguistic. The research resulted in a data mining system designed especially for the seabed. These web pages describe the digital GIS coverages that are now available for the seabed materials of the Australian maritime areas.auSEABED数据集由前地球科学学院职员克里斯·詹金斯博士创建，用于描述澳大利亚海域的海底底质——该海域总面积占地球表面积的1/12。鉴于澳大利亚人口基数相对较小，且海上科学研究经费匮乏，需最大限度复用现有数据以完成可行的海图绘制工作。这一需求推动了相关研究，探索整合方法、导航技术、实施标准、数据格式各异的各类数据集，无论其为数值型还是语言型。该项研究最终开发出一款专为海底环境定制的数据挖掘系统。 本系列网页将介绍当前可获取的、用于澳大利亚海域海底底质研究的数字化地理信息系统（GIS, Geographic Information System）覆盖图层数据集。