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Towards a regional high-resolution bathymetry of the North West Shelf of Australia based on Sentinel-2 satellite images, 3D seismic surveys, and historical datasets
Ulysse Lebrec
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Centre for Energy Geoscience, School of Earth Sciences, The University
of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia
Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, 40 St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA,
6000, Australia
Victorien Paumard
Centre for Energy Geoscience, School of Earth Sciences, The University
of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia
Michael J. O'Leary
Centre for Energy Geoscience, School of Earth Sciences, The University
of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia
Simon C. Lang
Centre for Energy Geoscience, School of Earth Sciences, The University
of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA, 6009, Australia
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This paper presents an integrated workflow that builds on satellite images and 3D seismic surveys, integrated with historical depth soundings, to generate regional high-resolution digital elevation models (DEMs). The workflow was applied to the North West Shelf of Australia and led to the creation of new DEMs, with a resolution of 10 × 10 m in nearshore areas and 30 × 30 m elsewhere over an area of nearly 1 000 000 km2. This constitutes a major improvement of the pre-existing 250 × 250 m DEM.
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