b'Geophysics in the surveysNewsGeoscience Australia: NewsGeoscience Australia is currently activecomplete, with deliverables to includeDatasets such as national gravity on a number of airborne and terrestriala full suite of inversions and integratedanomaly grids or individual surveys geophysical fronts in collaborationdata products for groundwater resourcecan be displayed by searching for and with the Geological Surveys of Westernanalysis and pre-competitive informationselecting the required layers from an Australia, South Australia, Northernfor the identification of new mineralextensive list. The portal also provides Territory, Queensland, New South Wales,resources throughout Northern Australia. some simple tools to alter and clip Victoria and Tasmania (Figure 1). Inversion data for Queensland and NTcolour ramps, and gives a link to the parts of the programme can already berelevant Web Map Service for users to AusAEM2 accessed via the EFTF portal. access directly.An innovative Clip, Zip and Ship The Australian Airborne EM surveyingfeature lets users select an area of programme (AusAEM) over northernGADDS interest and display all the available Australia will be suspended in Octoberdatasets that overlap with that area. of this year whilst the aircraft undertakesGAs geophysical archive data deliveryUsers can then choose the datasets work for the USGS. Commenced in 2018,systemGADDs, is nearing the endand formats they wish to download the AusAEM will eventually cover an entireof its working life and will be replaceddata in and a one-off link will be sent area of 2.56 million km2, from Hughendenshortly with a more user-friendly web- to their email for downloading at their in Queensland to Port Hedland in Westernbased delivery mechanism for bothconvenience.Australia (Figure 1). The 138 700 line kmgridded and located government-agencyThe portal also has a 3D capability will be completed by the middle of 2020geophysical data. The new system will becurrently displaying AEM and reflection and is an integral part of the Exploring forattached to the beta-release of the newseismic data related to the Exploring for the Future (EFTF) campaign, conductedExploring for the Future data discoverythe Future programme.in collaboration with the respective Stateportal (https://portal.ga.gov.au/), and will and Territory geological survey agencies.provide geophysical data discovery andThe Exploring for the Future data Acquisition currently stands at 66%download in two ways: discovery portal is a major final product Figure 1.20182020 geophysical surveyscompleted, in progress or planned by Geoscience Australia in collaboration with State and Territory agencies.13 PREVIEW OCTOBER 2019'