NSW Land Cover Theme

NSW Land Cover Theme

Land cover is the visible, biophysical cover on the Earth’s surface including trees, shrubs, grasses, soils, exposed rocks and water bodies, as well as anthropogenic elements
such as plantations, crops and built environments. Land cover
changes for many reasons, including
seasonal weather, severe weather events such as cyclones, floods and
fires, and human activities such as
mining, agriculture and urbanisation.

 

Remote sensing data recorded
over a period of time allows
the observation of land cover dynamics. Classifying these responses
provides
a robust and repeatable way
of characterising land cover types. These complement on ground survey where
available.

 

Datasets
included in the Land Cover Theme:

NSW Interim Native Vegetation Extent
(2008-v2)NSW SLATS LANDSAT Woody Change: Derived
VectorDatabase 1988 – 2010Plant Community Type ClassificationLand UseSoil LandscapesLandscapes and SoilsSoil data online



The Land Cover theme is an essential and authoritative
source of information that
can provide insight into
the behaviour of land cover
to a wide variety of conditions,
both natural and situational.

 

This provides
natural resource
managers with the capacity to identify
emerging patterns of land cover
change and provides a broad spatial and historical context within which to interpret that
land cover change.

 
This can
be combined with other information
to assess if any pro-
active intervention is required
to alter change happening to
the land cover.

 

Information about Land Cover dynamics is essential to
understanding and addressing
a range of national challenges including:


mapping and monitoring land use, natural
resources, biodiversity, water usage, drought, pollution, minerals, water
quality, wetlands, groundwater dependent ecosystems, land clearing,
floodplains, crop acreage and growth, remnant vegetation, land degradation,
irrigation, dry land salinity, and vegetation condition management of forests, rivers, fisheries,
catchments and agriculture national and state inventories of forests,
greenhouse gases, endangered species, land cover, topography, and carbon sinks emergency management of floods, bushfires and
landslides.


The NSW Department of Planning and Environment – Environment and Heritage Group is the source of truth for this data theme. The Environment and Heritage Group manages the state-wide vegetation, soils and land use datasets needed to support the Land Cover definitions. The current status of the land cover related datasets are as listed. Datasets
included in the Land Cover Theme:

NSW Native Vegetation Extent
For access to data please use below URLhttps://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/biodiversity/nsw-bionet/about-bionet-vegetation-classification/bionet-vegetation-maps/vegetation-extent-and-condition-products#native

Woody Extent and Foliage 
For access to data please use below URL
https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/landsat-woody-extent-and-foliage-projective-cover-fpc-ver-2-1-25m-20087355d
Plant Community Type Classification
For access to data please use below URLhttps://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/biodiversity/nsw-bionet/nsw-plant-community-type-classificationLand
Use For access to data please use below URLhttps://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/nsw-landuse-2017-v1p2-f0ed
Soil
Landscapes Landscapes and Soils Soil data
onlineFor access to data please use below URLhttps://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/land-and-soil/information/espade
alternatively, eSpade can be access through the link below
http://espade.environment.nsw.gov.au/

NSW Soil and Land Information System (SALIS)
For access to data please use the URL 
http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/Salis5app/Main/Account/Login

The Electronic Digital Infield Regolith Tool (eDIRT)
For access to data please use the URL 
http://edirt.environment.nsw.gov.au/



Custodian
agency and contact:

 

Environment and Heritage Group 

Head Office

PO Box A290 Sydney South NSW 1232

Email: info@environment.nsw.gov.au

 Metadata Portal Metadata Information


 
  
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  NSW Land
  Cover Theme
  
 
 
  
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  Document
  
 
 
  
  Description
  
  
  The
  Land Cover theme is an essential and authoritative source of information
  that can provide insight into the behaviour of land cover to a
  wide variety of conditions, both natural and situational
  
 
 
  
  Initial
  Publication Date
  
  
  11/02/2020
  
 
 
  
  Data
  Currency
  
  
  18/08/2023
  
 
 
  
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  NSW
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  Please
  contact us via the Spatial Services Customer Hub
  
 
 
  
  Data
  Aggregator
  
  
  Environment
  and Heritage Group 
  Email: info@environment.nsw.gov.au
  
 
 
  
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Tags: Land Cover, Land Use, Landscapes, Plant Community type, SLATS, Soil Landscapes, Soil data, Soils, Vegetation Extent, Woody Change
Organization: Spatial Services (DCS)