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AGOS Milestone Report No 14 August 2014

AuScope Limited Australian Geophysical Observing System

AGOS Progress Quarter 4 2014 At the conclusion of Quarter 4 2014 (30 June 2014), AGOS is on track to reach all planned milestones in line with the AGOS Agreement by December 2014. All equipment and physical infrastructure originally planned for the AGOS investment has been acquired and deployments by end-‐user research groups are underway. Some underspend of project funds have allowed additional supplementary equipment to be purchased and procurement of this is in hand.

The Earth Sounding Network

All construction and procurement components of the project are now complete.

Current activity is directed to a major new broad-‐band experiment in the Capricorn Orogen of Western Australia using 36 Earth-‐data recorders, representing collaboration between GSWA, UWA and Macquarie University. This experiment commenced last quarter and is scheduled to run for 3 years.

AGOS electric and magnetic MT field instruments are currently deployed in a major geophysical monitoring experiment in Queensland.

A second batch of Ocean Bottom Seismometer (OBS) trials were carried out near Broome in association with a major reflection seismic profile along the coast of the Canning Basin in NW Western Australia. All of the 13 instruments deployed were recovered successfully but 4 units returned data acquisition issues.

Consequently, 16 OBS instruments have now passed testing and the OBS facility is expected to be declared open within the next three months. Testing of the AGOS OBS Fleet instruments.

The remaining 4 data units are under repair and once these have been land tested and accepted, the OBS project will be complete.

The GeoHistory Laboratory

As reported last quarter, AGOS GeoHistory Facility is fully commissioned and continued to support collaborative research throughout this period. No further infrastructure expenditure has been undertaken on the Melbourne University node or the Curtin node of the laboratory. Inter-‐node calibration experiments between the Melbourne and Curtin have continued.



The Subsurface Observatory

The Subsurface Observatory petrophysics laboratory has now completed its move into the two new spaces described last quarter and the refitting required for operation has also concluded. Operations are now back to normal and core is being analysed from across the country.

Subsurface access projects continue with a number of major pieces of activity being undertaken and completed during this quarter including the two major logging campaigns associated with the NSW Darling Basin drilling programs undertaken by the NSW Department of Trade and the CSIRO resulting in reservoir water sampling and NMR logging of these holes.

Final procurement processes for the project were initiated for the acquisition of the new seismometer instrument suites and these have now been ordered for delivery One of the two wells drilled in the Darling Basin prior to December 2014. The additional instruments for the MSCL have been ordered and delivered. The procurement process for the tilt-‐meter and atmospheric flux monitoring instruments are underway.

The Inversion Laboratory

The iLab project is making advanced inference and data analysis software available to the geophysical community. The iLab website provides a portal (http://www.iearth.org.au/codes/) for researchers to share their software. There are currently 11 software packages available through the portal with current plans to add an additional 2 inversion packages. There are also 7 historic packages currently available elsewhere that are to be shifted to this site and this includes both inversion codes and some specific applications of inversion. 124 people have now registered with the site in order to download various packages. Registrations have increased this quarter with a further 50 registrations. This has largely been Hyper Sweep -‐ Fortran90 software library due to the advertising of the REDBACK package by the authors. The registered users are globally distributed. At UQ node work continued on the main objective to develop a software facility for inversion of geophysical data sets focused on large scale seamless integration of different physics and joint



inversion. During the last quarter work focused on several areas: • downunder optimisation and benchmarking for NCI clusters showing scalability for over 8000

cores. • downunder release as part of three escript releases including bug fixing, documentation,

packaging and testing • improved support for data import of ER Mapper file, netCDF, GOCAD and segy • continued development of functionalities for

o 2D MT inversion for TM and TE mode. o 3D synthetic seismic responses

The Geospatial Observatory

The AGOS GNSS CORS build (4 sites) is now fully complete with data streams being fully integrated into the AuScope GNSS array.

The GNSS instrument pool remains operational. GA, ANU, UNSW, UTAS and the Australian Antarctic Division currently have AGOS supported research projects underway with The CORS site at Beechworth and map of AuScope CORS equipment being used across Australia, locations in Victoria. Indonesia and Antarctica.

The radar reflector array at Gunning near Canberra was imaged by five space agencies (Europe, Korea, Italy, Canada, Germany) with the ultimate aim of improving radar sensor calibrations. The Gunning experiment has now been completed and the reflectors have been packaged ready for deployment to the Surat Basin, Queensland. The establishment of this infrastructure in Queensland has commenced and is on track for completion by December 2014. Work in the Surat Basin will support the measurement of subsidence in Coal Seam Gas extractions areas.

The build of the survey groundmark infrastructure in the Surat and Galilee Basins has commenced. Land access issues are largely resolved after successful negotiations with aboriginal and land owners in the areas of interest.

The Geophysical Education Observatory

This quarter the Australian Seismometers in Schools Network is in the final stages of installation and is focusing on the development of support and educational materials. 41 instruments are currently installed in schools around Australia. The AuScope app is finally available through both the Google Play Store and the Apple AppStore. The app will be promoted through the AuSIS Network, media outlets (including app reviewers) and to parliamentarians. The GPS in Schools program is progressing well with planned sites in Tasmania (3 sites), ACT (2 sites), NSW (5 sites), Victoria



(5 sites) and Queensland (1 site). Agreements with ACT and Tasmania are in place and the installation program is progressing well. Agreements with Queensland, NSW and Victoria are currently being finalised. The University of Tasmania has provided educational material explaining the program that is targeted to high school students. Work with the Department of Education, Tasmania, has contributed this material.



Project Milestones The status of project milestones is shown in the table below. Note that milestones shown incomplete in earlier Quarters are included below to show that progress has been made.

No. Milestone Projected completion Date

Status

Milestones (reported not complete in earlier Reports)

43 Geospatial Observatory: 4 new permanent GNSS CORS stations installed

30 June 2013 4 sites Complete and streaming data.

60

Subsurface Observatory: Third stage sites selected (Third Stage Sites refers to Borehole Seismology sites and associated Borehole Logging Data Access Infrastructure)

30 September 2013 75% complete. Final borehole seismometry access project planned for completion by September 2014.

63

Inversion Laboratory: Integration of inversion capability into Escript prototype released

31 December 2013 60% complete. Delayed to December 2014 because the AGOS inversion tools based on Escript are to be integrated into the Escript distribution as a package and are distributed with Escript releases rather than prototypes.

65

Subsurface Observatory: Second stage completed

(second stage refers to Borehole Logging Toolkit & Borehole Logging Data Access Infrastructure)

31 December 2013 This milestone is 65% complete. Delays relate largely to delays experienced by the 3rd party research groups in specifying and finalising subsurface research activities that require access funding. Planned completion revised to October 2014.

67

Geospatial Observatory: Remote sensing web portal developed

31 March 2014 Original Plan Complete. Following approval for purchase of new data, additional to the original plan, procurement of the new data is underway.

68

Subsurface Observatory: Third stage logging pool procured

31 March 2014 Original Plan Complete. Procurement of supplementary equipment, additional to original plans is currently underway.

Milestones to 30 June 2014



70 Annual Business Plan 4 15 May 2014 Submitted and accepted.

71

Earth Sounding Network: Pool of ocean-‐bottom seismometers fabricated or purchased and project completed

30 June 2014 16 of 20 instruments fit for purpose. Minor acceptance testing issues with 4 instruments is close to completion. Completion due 30 September 2014

72 Milestone Report 14 30 June 2014 Completed for internal distribution.

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