Geoscience data portals
There are a number of Geoscience databases data portals that may be of interest in to CQUniversity Research community. These include the following:
Australian geoscience data portals
- Geoscience Australia - http://www.ga.gov.au/
- Australian Government - data.gov.au
- National Map - http://www.nationalmap.gov.au/
International geoscience data portals
Australian Government - data.gov.au
Data.gov.au provides an easy way to find, access and reuse public datasets from the Australian Government.
- http://data.gov.au/dataset - as of March 2017, over 24'000 datasets can be found
- http://nationalmap.nicta.com.au/ - provides a National Map
For example, a search of Rockhampton shows the following datasets
- Rockhampton - This series of maps covers the whole of Australia at a scale of 1:250 000 (1cm on a map represents 2.5km on the ground) and comprises 513 maps. This is the largest scale at... ZIP KML shp
Geology of the Rockhampton - These data are a digital representation of information depicted on the printed map of the Rockhampton 1:250 000 Geological Series produced by AGSO and the Geological Survey of... shp ZIP
AUSGeoid98 v.1.0 data files: Rockhampton (sf56) - AUSGeoid98 data files contain a 2 minute grid of AUSGeoid98 data covering the Australian region, which you can use to interpolate geoid-ellipsoid separations for the positions... ZIP
AUSGeoid98 v.1.0 data files: Rockhampton (sf56-13) - AUSGeoid98 data files contain a 2 minute grid of AUSGeoid98 data covering the Australian region, which you can use to interpolate geoid-ellipsoid separations for the positions... ZIP