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B6689 - Great Barrier Reef Listings of ASO / AUSLIG Projects Photography series

Function and purpose

This series contains a listing which contains details of films created by the Australian Surveying and Land Information Group (AUSLIG) and its previous incarnations: the Australian Survey Office (ASO); The Lands and Survey Branch of the Department of Interior; and the National Mapping Section. These films were created for purposes including land surveying, cartography, geodesy (the study of gravitational fields), photogrammetry (the practice of determining the geometric properties of objects from photographic images) and other earth science research and land information management for Commonwealth departments and statutory authorities.

In September 2001 AUSLIG merged with Geoscience Australia to become the National Mapping Division (NMD) within Geoscience Australia. In November 2001 the current name of Geosience Australia was adopted. The National Mapping Division and Geohazards Divisions were merged in 2005 to become the Geospatial and Earth Monitoring Division (GEMD).

The series is an arch lever binder used to control records relating specifically to ASO / AUSLIG project photography of the Great Barrier Reef. The films recorded in this listing date from 1960 to 1992. However the list appears to have been collated between 1990 and 1992. There are two computer printouts from the AUSLIG aerial film photography register. These listings contain entries relating to films directly relating to the imaging of the Great Barrier Reef. The films listed in the printouts have ‘SO’, ‘AUS’, ‘CA’ and ‘Q’ prefixes (the ‘Q’ prefix apparently relates to record that were created for AUSLIG stakeholders external to the Commonwealth government). In between the two computer printouts is a separate listing held in protective plastic sleeves which almost exclusively relate to ‘AUS’ prefixed project photography prepared via a contract with the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority during 1991 and 1992.

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Physical characteristics

The series consists of a single lever-arch folder holding about 2 cm worth if documents. The first section of the item is a dot-matrix printout on 16 folios of perforated continuous computer paper. Next is 9 folios that are contained in protective plastic sleeves. Finally, the last section is a laser printed listing on mor than 50 folios of A4 paper.

System of arrangement and control

Single item series, with control symbol [1] imposed by National Archives of Australia.

Relationships with other records

This series can be used in conjunction with the Aerial survey flight line diagrams (B6676) to act as finding aids for B6673 - Negative films of aerial survey photography of Australia, single number with 'AUS' prefix; and B6674 and B6675, both of which series have items with ‘AUS’ suffixes. Also this series can act as finding aid for B6670, B6674 and B6675 as these series contain control symbols with ‘CA’ (CAB, CAC etc) prefixes, infixes or suffixes.

There is also a small amount of duplication of control of records with series B6687 and B6688.

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