Darwin Harbour Habitat Mapping Program: Backscatter homogeneity

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

This resource contains a GLCM (Grey-Level Co-occurrence Matices) homogeneity grid of the backscatter data for the greater Darwin Harbour region as part of a baseline seabed mapping program of Darwin Harbour and Bynoe Harbour. This project was funded through offset funds provided by an INPEX-led Ichthys LNG Project to the Northern Territory Government’s Department of Environment and Natural Resources (NTG-DENR) with co-investment from Geoscience Australia (GA) and the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS). The intent of this program is to improve knowledge of the marine environments in the Darwin and Bynoe Harbour regions by collating and collecting baseline data that enable the creation of thematic habitat maps and information to underpin marine resource management decisions. The GLCM (Grey-Level Co-occurrence Matices) homogeneity grid of the backscatter data was derived from a compilation of multiple surveys undertaken by GA, AIMS and NTG-DENR between 2011 and 2017, including GA0333 (Siwabessy et al., 2015), GA0341 (Siwabessy et al., 2015), GA0351/SOL6187 (Siwabessy et al., 2016), GA4452/SOL6432 (Siwabessy et al., 2017), GA0356 (Radke et al., 2017), and GA0358 and GA0359 (Radke et al., 2018), adding to those from a previous survey GA0333 collected by GA, AIMS and NTG-DENR. The homogeneity is large when the image is locally homogeneous or texturally uniform.

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Title Darwin Harbour Habitat Mapping Program: Backscatter homogeneity
Language English
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/4c07e116-992d-42b2-a475-dca986b78016
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/2011 - 01/01/2017
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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      ],
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    ]
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}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Darwin Harbour Habitat Mapping Program: Backscatter homogeneity". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/darwin-harbour-habitat-mapping-program-backscatter-homogeneity