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That's not a radiation map of Australia ( https://radiaverse.com/country/au#2.82/-27.05/133.28 )

This is a radiation map of Australia: https://www.ga.gov.au/bigobj/GA13928.pdf ( gridded data available for d/load )

The first being a very few submitted tracks of handheld click counters with limited accuracy and no reporting of the peaks across the breadth of gamma spectrum; the second being a decades long high resolution 256 channel 40 litre crystal pack calibrated, normalised, geophysical survey of the entire continent.

I see you've played knifey-spoony before.
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It's interesting that Crocodile Dundee doesn't actually use the "That's not X, this is X" pairing [Dundee says "That" not "This" both times] but that's what we end up remembering and what imitators do to reference that line.

This one isn't on Wikipedia's list (at time of writing) unlike "Play it, Sam. Play 'As Time Goes By'" or "Why don't you come up sometime and see me?"

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Data, for those interested: https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/radiometric-grid-of-austral...
Good addition, cheers for that.

For context that above is processed and reduced data, for those that care.

The raw data (which was once online (and may still be, having shifted)) is full 256 channel counts + height + distance to ground + raw GPS packets + post processed GPS position + etc... straight out of the airframes (and additional "meta" data - the concurrent calibration runs, stripping weights, raw GPS base station packets, etc).

The data linked above is three values per grid cell post process - the full spectrums are normalised, then U-K-Th (Uranium, Potassium, Thorium) decay product peaks are extracted to reconstruct estimated U-K-Th values for a grid cell (and a pseudo colour image created from those three values)

Great for background environmental radiation mapping - useless for spotting out of band "stray" radiation events not of a natural origin.

For that you want to subtract a NASVD kernel from the data and look to the leftover peaks between the big three daughter decay peaks ( and similarly for removing radon smear, etc ).

I was surprised to zoom in on Olympic Dam and not see anything measured given it is a uranium mine. But I guess its measured by the people
More is measured than is passed on, that is true.

The entirety of Fiji,and most of Mali should ideally also be online / available - but can be a tricky find (ditto many other places about the globe).

Before and after Pokhran-II India, (1998) should also be an interesting study that might be tricky to hoard the data for.

That's incredible! Thank you for sharing.

I apologize if this is answered in the PDF, but I couldn't find an explanation there - any idea why fairly large chunks were omitted from the map? Some of them seem like population centers, others look like nature preserves.

Obligatory Dundee clip:

https://youtu.be/HwAO5IET0xw?si=sPeOpu8p9tTtRMVo

> Video unavailable It was blocked due to the claimed content by VA Media.

Crikey