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Acoustic Zones of Australia

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 24/06/2025

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The goal of our study was to split the Australian maritime Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) into a set of smaller acoustic zones, whereby each zone is characterised by a set of environmental parameters that vary more across than within zones. The environmental parameters chosen reflect the hydroacoustic (e.g., water column sound speed profile), geoacoustic (e.g., sound speeds and absorption coefficients for compressional and shear waves), and bathymetric (i.e., seafloor depth and slope) parameters that directly affect the way in which sound propagates. Mean zone parameters and shape files are available for download. The zones may be used to map, for example, underwater sound from commercial shipping within the entire Australian EEZ.

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Field Value
Title Acoustic Zones of Australia
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/6ba08ed0-b649-4d00-82d6-adbd94d50d05
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
David.Peel@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/07/2015 - 01/07/2017
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        108.688,
        -47.611
      ],
      [
        163.36,
        -47.611
      ],
      [
        163.36,
        -8.458
      ],
      [
        108.688,
        -8.458
      ],
      [
        108.688,
        -47.611
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "Acoustic Zones of Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/acoustic-zones-of-australia