Land use of Australia 2010-11

Brief description

The Land use of Australia 2010-11 is the latest in a series of digital national land use maps at national scale. Agricultural land uses and their spatial distributions are based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics' 2010-11 agricultural census data. The spatial distribution of the agricultural land uses is modelled and was determined using Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite imagery with training data to make agricultural land use allocations. The non-agricultural land uses are drawn from existing digital maps covering seven themes: topographic features, catchment scale land use, protected areas, World Heritage Areas, tenure, forest type and vegetation condition.

The Land use of Australia 2010-11 is a product of the Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program (ACLUMP). ACLUMP, coordinated by ABARES, is a collaborative cross-government approach producing land use mapping products for Australia underpinned by common technical standards. The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources is acknowledged for its financial support of the Land use of Australia 2010-11.

The Land Use of Australia datasets are recognised as Foundation Spatial Data by the Australia New Zealand Land Information Council and as an Essential Statistical Asset for Australia by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Common applications of the datasets are in strategic planning and continental modelling.

Full description

Data download - Land use of Australia 2010-11 - ESRI grid Geographic - Land use of Australia 2010-11 - National Map - ESRI GRID - integer - Geographics - Compressed. \r\n\r\nThe Land use of Australia 2010-11 agricultural land uses and their spatial distributions are based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics' 2010-11 agricultural census data. The spatial distribution of the agricultural land uses is modelled and was determined using Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite imagery with training data to make agricultural land use allocations. The non-agricultural land uses are drawn from existing digital maps covering seven themes: topographic features, catchment scale land use, protected areas, World Heritage Areas, tenure, forest type and vegetation condition. ​\r\n\r\nThe Land use of Australia 2010-11 is supplied as a set of raster datasets (in Esri grid format) with coordinates referred to the Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94) with a 0.01 degree pixel size. \r\n\r\nThe Land use of Australia 2010-11 national map is an integer categorical summary land use grid, which has a value attribute table (VAT) with columns defining input layers and an output layer. The output layer specifies land use in terms of the Australian Land Use and Management Classification (ALUMC) Version 7 and is an approximation to a maximum likelihood map.
User guide - Land use of Australia 2010-11 v1.0.0 - This user guide provides information about the Land use of Australia 2010-11. \r\n\r\nThe Land use of Australia 2010-11 is a product of the Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program (ACLUMP). ACLUMP, coordinated by ABARES, is a collaborative cross-government approach producing land use mapping products for Australia underpinned by common technical standards. The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources is acknowledged for its financial support of the Land use of Australia 2010-11. \r\n\r\nAgricultural land uses and their spatial distributions are based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics' 2010-11 agricultural census data. The spatial distribution of the agricultural land uses is modelled and was determined using Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite imagery with training data to make agricultural land use allocations. The non-agricultural land uses are drawn from existing digital maps covering seven themes: topographic features, catchment scale land use, protected areas, World Heritage Areas, tenure, forest type and vegetation condition.\r\n\r\nThis publication (and any material sourced from it) should be attributed as:\r\nABARES 2016, Land Use of Australia 2010-11, ABARES, Canberra, May. CC BY 3.0.