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About the Honeysuckle 2 Airborne Geophysics Project |
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 H2 Project Area
During
2001-04 an airborne geophysics survey and interpretation was undertaken across
a substantial part of the Honeysuckle Creek catchment. The project (H1),
generated a number of interpretation products (reports and maps) mostly
relating to a more detailed understanding of groundwater and salinity across
the region. In reviewing this work it was clear that H1 did not meet community
expectations in terms of delivering products useful for managing salinity
issues at farm scale.
The Honeysuckle 2 Airborne Geophysics Project (or H2)
provides an opportunity to apply improved data processing methods to interpret
the original data acquired in H1 that are now routine practice in current day
airborne geophysical surveys. H2 is a project of the Australian Government's
Community Stream Sampling and Salinity Mapping (CSSSM) project and is funded
through the National Action Plan for Salinity and Water Quality (NAP).
Click here for a fact sheet on the Honeysuckle 2 project.
The map to the right indicates the original extents of the H1 airborne geophysical survey that is the working boundary of the H2 project. To download a high resolution A4 scaled map please click here.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 20 April 2007 )
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H2 aims to generate a set of GIS maps illustrating a range of landscape
attributes that can be derived from the existing airborne geophysics datasets.
These products will be targeted to assist in whole farm planning. These maps
will particularly focus on:
- soil attributes
that are of relevance to soil management activities
- the
distribution of sub-surface salt that is relevant to salinity processes
The project will use updated and improved interpretations of the
airborne geophysics datasets to inform our understanding of how the Honeysuckle
Ck landscape functions. The products generated by the project will be produced
in such a manner that they will be readily able to be used as inputs to other
research activities across the region.
Information generated by the project will be delivered via a number of
means including community seminars and the project website. The H2 project will
leave a legacy of ready accessibility to its products via the Goulburn Broken
CMA. GIS layers produced will help in the identification of extension needs and
direct on-ground works.
The specific products intended to be generated by the project include:
- Bedrock Topographic Map
- Regolith Thickness Map
- Regolith Bulk Conductivity Map
- Bedrock Geology Map
- Key Regolith Cross-Sections
- Soils Map
- Soil Attribute Maps
- Regolith Electrical Conducivity (EC 1:5) Map
- Consolidated Knowledge Product
Click for a summarised description of these products.
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Last Updated ( Tuesday, 29 January 2008 )
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The CSSSM project aims to build on existing
salinity data by acquiring new stream sampling and salinity mapping
information. The result will be integrated salinity datasets in the NAP regions
of the Murray Darling Basin to better support effective intervention and
salinity management projects. A component of the CSSSM project involves the
investigation of existing airborne geophysics data (and particularly airborne
electromagnetics - AEM) data to develop products to support salinity and
natural resource management. The Honeysuckle Creek is one location where an
earlier investment in airborne geophysics technologies incorporating AEM will
feed into development of new products.
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Last Updated ( Friday, 20 April 2007 )
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