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Magnetic anomaly grid of the Australian Region

Created 02/03/2026

Updated 02/03/2026

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These data represent the January 2002 edition of the Magnetic Anomaly Grid of the Australian Region. This version is the first integrated onshore/offshore magnetic anomaly grid for the complete Australian margin extending across 8S - 52S, 106E - 172E. The grid cell size is 0.01 degree (approx. 1 km). Earlier releases were restricted to portions of NW and SW Australia. - Magnetic anomaly unit is nanoTesla (nT). Appropriate IGRFs have been removed. Horizontal datum is GDA94 (which is equivalent to WGS84). - The marine data were levelled independently of the onshore data in three sectors (see below). The NNW and SSW sectors were released as grids previously. The eastern sector was levelled in 2000 in collaboration with Intrepid Geophysics (Melbourne, Australia). The three levelled sectors, together with the unlevelled sectors were combined with the onshore grid to give the present grid. Altogether, 3,022,656 data points are in the database from which the marine grid was created. - Unlevelled sectors: (-8 -25 160 172), (-39 -52 156 172), (-46 -52 106 140) - Levelled sectors: (-37 -52 140 156), (-25 -39 143 172), (-8 -25 143 160), (-24 -46 106 140), (-8 -24 106 143) - There are several places at the join between onshore and offshore grids where the two grids do not match. The problem exists because the onshore grid was developed earlier, and there was poor control on the grid merging process at the margins. Future work will attempt to address this issue and improve the continuity between the onshore and offshore grids.

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Title Magnetic anomaly grid of the Australian Region
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/1a42758f-632f-4501-ab90-b1ce8adaad5f
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        106.0,
        -52.0
      ],
      [
        172.0,
        -52.0
      ],
      [
        172.0,
        -8.0
      ],
      [
        106.0,
        -8.0
      ],
      [
        106.0,
        -52.0
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Magnetic anomaly grid of the Australian Region". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/magnetic-anomaly-grid-of-the-australian-region7