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Probabilistic airborne electromagnetic (AEM) inversion of 20 km AusAEM data, Phase 2

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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This airborne electromagnetic (AEM) dataset provides regional scale probabilistic inversion products from 140,000 line km of airborne electromagnetic (AEM) data from the AusAEM program - Tranches 1 and 2 as well as AusAEM20-Western Australia. This completes the release of probabilistic inversion of 20-km spaced AEM data acquired under the Exploring for the Future program. Subsequent processing and probabilstic inversions were carried out as part of the Resourcing Australia’s Prosperity initiative, using the open source HiQGA (High Quality Geophysical Analysis) code developed for this purpose (Ray 2022, Ray et al. 2023). Previously released Phase 01 products are available at Ray et al. 2024, eCat 149375.

While deterministic inversions are the mainstay of reconnaisance with AEM, the main benefits of a probabilistic inversion are:

  • Loss of signal sensitivity at depth does not “fade to blue” by returning to the resistive deterministic reference model. Ambiguous subsurface features become clearer when examining multiple probability percentiles.
  • Fine features and confidence in their interpretability are brought out by examining multiple probability percentiles.

Further details are provided in the accompanying technical note.

Conductivity products from the following surveys are available:

  • AusAEM 02 Tranche 1
  • AusAEM 02 Tranche 2
  • AusAEM20-WA Earaheedy Desert Strip
  • AusAEM20-WA Yilgarn
  • AusAEM20-WA Eastern Goldfields
  • AusAEM20-WA SW Albany
  • AusAEM20-WA Murchison
  • Capricorn (legacy)

The 10th, 50th and 90th and mean percentiles of log10 conductivity are provided in a variety of formats:

  • VTK structured grids
  • ASCII point clouds
  • ASEG-GDF2 files
  • GOCAD S-grids

Shape files associated with the inverted lines have also been provided.

All products have been provided in the coordinate reference system (CRS) the original AEM data were provided in. The VTK unstructured grids are also provided in GDA94 geodetic longitude, latitude coordinates for ease of display in the same CRS.

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Title Probabilistic airborne electromagnetic (AEM) inversion of 20 km AusAEM data, Phase 2
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/f9561048-bd79-437f-80d2-5b1332212831
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Probabilistic airborne electromagnetic (AEM) inversion of 20 km AusAEM data, Phase 2". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/probabilistic-airborne-electromagnetic-aem-inversion-of-20-km-ausaem-data-phase-2