The AusSeabed Survey Coordination Tool was developed to support coordination of survey activities across the Australian seafloor mapping community. Access to the Survey Coordination Tool requires a simple registration process. Governmental and academic entities, and others conducting seafloor mapping surveys are able to consider the areas of interest during mapping planning activities. ASB encourages collaboration and leveraging of opportunities based on common interests. The three tools contained within the SCT are independent of one another. The ASB SCT was developed by FrontierSI on behalf of AusSeabed.

1. Survey Plans - Communicate planned mapping surveys to notify the seabed mapping community.
2. Areas of Interest - identify your organisation's marine area of interest.
3. HIPP Request submission - The Australian Hydrographic Office's HydroScheme Industry Partnership Program (HIPP) is the commercial acquisition program that undertakes focused hydrographic survey activities to support national charting priorities and safety of navigation. For more information see here.

This version of the Areas of Interest tool was developed by AusSeabed in partnership with the National Environmental Science Program Marine and Coastal Hub. The tool is designed to help users from all sectors across the seabed mapping and characterisation community submit and describe Areas of Interest for data collection to help create collaboration opportunities. Areas created in this section of the system should have value that can be categorised under the following themes:

• Cultural Heritage
• Social/Historical
• Operational
• Economic
• Environmental

Before submitting an area of interest users should check the below portals to ensure that there isn’t already open data that meets their needs:

• AusSeabed Acoustic data, bathymetry, etc
• MARS Sediments
• Squidle+ Epibenthos organisms / imagery
• SOI Squidle Epibenthos organisms / imagery
• AODN (all rationales) All data types
• OBIS Ecological data; species distributions
• ALA Ecological data; species distributions
• SeaMap Australia Biotope
• GlobalArchive Fish, BRUVS data
• IMSA Biotope, sediment, chemical

The Request has been specifically designed to support the submission of planned survey programs to the Hydroscheme Industry Partnership Program (HIPP).

To submit a survey program for consideration to the HIPP please click on “Requests” at the top of this window and either “+ ADD HIPP REQUEST” or select an already existing record in your list to modify.

HYDROSCHEMENew Request

The survey plan and associated information has been designed to support a number of different activities such as:

1. Adding an upcoming survey to the AusSeabed “Upcoming Surveys” coverage layer
2. Assist a non-expert user to plan their survey and get support from within the AusSeabed community. Please refer to our FAQ’s “How to get technical support?” for more information.
3. Allow a user to plan a survey with specifications and generate documentation to support a tender process.

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