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Radiometric Map of Australia promotional movie - Revealing Australia's Secrets

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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This short movie tells the story of the making of the Radiometric Map of Australia. Scientists at Geoscience Australia have, for the first time, been able to produce a map of Australia showing the distribution of the radioactive elements Potassium, Uranium and Thorium across the continent using airborne geophysical data that have taken over 30 years to acquire. This movie explores the questions: What have we done that is special; Why is it special; How did it all start - history; What is gamma-ray spectrometry; What was the problem encountered and how was it solved; Who uses the map. Flash movie is 17.7MB, 5 Minutes.

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Title Radiometric Map of Australia promotional movie - Revealing Australia's Secrets
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/e2076eeb-3820-458c-9bbf-f29cde099507
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 20/04/2018
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Radiometric Map of Australia promotional movie - Revealing Australia's Secrets". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/radiometric-map-of-australia-promotional-movie-revealing-australias-secrets