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Acoustic Zones of Australia

Created 13/03/2025

Updated 13/03/2025

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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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Title Acoustic Zones of Australia
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/067630ba-d556-4b63-968f-e9c7d27b3366
Contact Point
CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere
David.Peel@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/07/2015 - 01/07/2017
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
Data Portal Data.gov.au