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工作人员克里斯·詹金斯（Chris Jenkins）博士创建，旨在描述澳大利亚海域的海底物质组成——该海域总面积占地球表面积的1/12。由于澳大利亚人口基数相对较小，且海洋科考经费不足，为完成切实可行的海底制图工作，必须最大限度利用现有数据。这一需求推动相关研究探索使用采集方法、导航方案、技术手段、研究目标、标准规范及数据格式均存在差异的数据集，且涵盖数值型与语言型两类数据。此项研究最终研发出一款专为海底场景定制的数据挖掘系统。本系列网页将介绍目前可获取的澳大利亚海域海底物质数字化地理信息系统（Geographic Information System，GIS）覆盖图层。