P5023 Yathong Magnetic Gradient and Radiometric Survey, NSW, 2023

Geoscience Australia (GA), in collaboration with the New South Wales (NSW) Government’s Geological Survey of NSW, undertook a horizontal magnetic gradient and radiometric survey in the Yathong area of NSW. This survey was fully funded by the NSW Government as part of a project to find deep groundwater for use in times of drought.

Survey Name: Yathong Datasets Acquired: Horizontal Magnetic Gradient, Radiometrics, and Elevation Geoscience Australia Project Number: P5023 Acquisition Start Date: 21/05/2023 Acquisition End Date: 14/09/2023 Flight line spacing: 200 m Flight line direction: East-West (090-270 degrees) Total distance flown: 65,503.75 line-km's Nominal terrain clearance: 80 m Data Acquisition: Magspec Airborne Surveys Pty Ltd Project Management: Geoscience Australia Quality Control: Geoscience Australia Dataset Ownership: Geological Survey of New South Wales Datum: Geocentric Datum of Australia 2020 (GDA2020) Projection: Map Grid of Australia Zone 55 (MGA55)

Included in this release:

  1. Point-located Data - ASCII-column (.dat) and NetCDF (.nc) format. • Magnetic diurnal; • Magnetic gradient raw-edited; • Magnetic gradient reduced; • Radiometrics raw-edited; • Radiometrics reduced.

  2. Gridded data - ERMapper (.ers) format. • Gradient enhanced Total Magnetic Intensity (TMI); • Gradient enhanced TMI Reduced to Pole (RTP); • Gradient enhanced TMI RTP with First Vertical Derivative (1VD); • Dose rate (with NASVD and standard processing); • Potassium concentration (with NASVD, standard processing); • Thorium concentration (with NASVD, standard processing); • Uranium concentration (with NASVD, standard processing); • Radar-derived digital elevation model (geoidal).

  3. Reports. • Calibration report; • Operations and processing summary report.

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Published (Metadata Record) 02/03/2026
Last updated 03/03/2026
Organisation Australian Federal Government
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