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National ASTER Map of Australia

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 16/10/2025

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This is the parent datafile of a dataset that comprises a set of 14+ geoscience products made up of mosaiced ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) scenes across Australia. The individual geoscience products are a combination of bands and band ratios to highlight different mineral groups and parameters including: False colour composite CSIRO Landsat TM Regolith Ratios Green vegetation content Ferric oxide content Ferric oxide composition Ferrous iron index Opaque index AlOH group content AlOH group composition Kaolin group index FeOH group content MgOH group content MgOH group composition Ferrous iron content in MgOH/carbonate Surface mineral group distribution (relative abundance and composition)

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Field Value
Title National ASTER Map of Australia
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/9a080f5f-cce0-4a26-b27f-67c9dcdfc529
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
clientservices@ga.gov.au
Reference Period 22/04/2018
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        111.5,
        -44.5
      ],
      [
        155.0,
        -44.5
      ],
      [
        155.0,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        111.5,
        -9.0
      ],
      [
        111.5,
        -44.5
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Geoscience Australia

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "National ASTER Map of Australia". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/national-aster-map-of-australia