AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Geophysics (1:250,000), Geological Interpretation of Geophysical Features Polygon

This dataset contains interpreted geological data, using combined interpretations of airborne magnetic, radiometric and gravity survey data, mapped at 1:250,000. 

At scales larger than 1:120,000 the display is a combination of both 1:100,000 and 1:250,000 geophysical mapping. Recent 1:250,000 geophysical mapping has been of such quality and detail it has been used to supersede older coincident 1:100,000 mapping. This occurs in the following areas: St Arnaud 7524, Dunolly 7624, Charlton 7525, Wedderburn 7625 and part of Ararat 7423 are superseded by St Arnaud SJ54-4. Bendigo 7724, Heathcote 7824 and Nagambie 7924 are superseded by Bendigo SJ55-1. 

Balmoral 7223, Ararat 7423, Horsham SJ54-3 and St Arnaud SJ54-4 supersede Grampians 7323 where there is overlap.

The Ouyen SI54-15 and Horsham SJ54-3 map areas are datasets derived from a combination of Geological Interpretation of Basement Geophysical Features maps and Geological Interpretation of Post-Cratonic Geophysical Features maps performed by Moore, D. H.

This data has been collected by the Geological Survey of Victoria. This dataset is accompanied by other datasets representing sub-surface geological polygons, structural lines, miscellaneous lines and metamorphism.

Tags: Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Interpreted Faults, North-West Murray Basin

This dataset depicts the location of the Danyo, Hindmarsh, Tyrell, Avoca and Leaghur faults in the north-western Murray Basin in Victoria. The faults have been digitised from Macumber (1991) and Robson and Webb (2011). These north-south oriented faults appear to truncate or interrupt a number of cross-cutting structures in the Murray Basin. The Hindmarsh, Tyrell, Avoca and Leaghur faults all influence modern day stream flows which may be indicative of an earlier impact on the aquifer if movement has occurred regularly over the Tertiary period.

The dataset was compiled by GHD to inform the report 'Potential Influences of Geological Structures on Groundwater Flow Systems' for DEPI's Secure Allocation Future Entitlements (SAFE) Project.

Tags: Geoscientific information, Inland waters
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Admin - State Council Polygon 2005

State wide data showing Upper House boundaries and names. These are the Legislative Council Electoral Boundaries referred to as the Upper House Boundaries .
Electoral Boundaries are defined under the requirements of the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act 1982.
STATE_COUNCIL_2005 boundaries may contain overlaps and slivers due to maintenance regime. It is the intention that these will be removed over the next 12 months.

SUPERSESED dataset by VMADMIN_STATE_COUNCIL_2013.

Tags: Boundaries
Organization: Victorian Electoral Commission
Vicmap Admin

This dataset series contains polygon features delineating key Victorian administrative boundaries. It comprises several data sets and is part of the Vicmap suite of products.
Datasets in the series are listed below. See their individual metadata entries for more product specific metadata.

Local Government Area Boundaries - LGA_POLYGON (aligned to Property);
Local Government Area Boundaries - AD_LGA_AREA_POLYGON (aligned to Topo);

Locality Boundaries - LOCALITY_POLYGON (aligned to Property):
Locality Boundaries - AD_LOCALITY_AREA_POLYGON (aligned to Topo);

Postcode Boundaries - POSTCODE_POLYGON (aligned to Property);

Parish Boundaries - PARISH_POLYGON;

Township Boundaries - TOWNSHIP_POLYGON;

Victorian Lower House Electoral Boundaries 2022 - STATE_ASSEMBLY_2022;
Victorian Upper House Electoral Boundaries 2022 - STATE_COUNCIL_2022;

Ward Boundaries (Property) - WARD_2024;

Victorian Government Regional Departmental Boundaries - VICGOV_REGION (aligned to Property);
Victorian Government Regional Departmental Boundaries - AD_VICGOV_REGION (aligned to Topo);

Dept of Environment, Land, Water and Planning - DELWP_REGION (aligned to Topo) - to be removed in November 2025;
Dept of Energy, Environment and Climate Action - AD_DEECA_REGION (aligned to Topo);

Country Fire Authority (CFA) District Boundaries - CFA_DISTRICT;
Country Fire Authority (CFA) Region Boundaries - CFA_REGION;
Country Fire Authority (CFA) Total Fire Ban Districts - CFA_TFB_DISTRICT;

Fire Rescue Victoria Regions - FRV_REGION;
Fire Rescue Victoria Districts - FRV_DISTRICT;
Fire Rescue Victoria Response Area - FRV_RESPONSE_AREA;
Fire Rescue Victoria Legislated Boundary - FRV_LEGISLATED_BOUNDARY;

Emergency Management Victoria Regions - EMERGENCY_MANAGEMENT_REGION.

Tags: Boundaries, Society
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Regional Management Units of north west Victoria

A polygonal dataset of Regional Map Units (RMUs) in the Victorian Mallee.

The dataset was created from the disaggregation of land systems originally defined by Rowan and Downes (1963).

RMUs delineate areas of repeating landform component patterns that occur within a similar landscape context. They were created to provide the Mallee CMA with areas for priority investment to monitor, assess and manage regional land management issues, such as wind erosion. The units also assist in distinguishing the morphological variation in landform components, for example the difference in size of hummocks between the Tempy and Culgoa land systems.

The RMUs have been attributed for their relative wind erosion susceptibility and have been embedded into the Victorian Geomorphological Framework. Each RMU therefore has a local naming context (eg: Central Mallee 1) and a statewide Geomorphological reference, eg: 5.1.2.

The landform component grid developed by the same project, a 10 metre grid Digital Elevation Model (DEM), expert opinion and the GMU were key inputs into the creation of the landform units.

An alpha-numeric code has been applied as the naming convention for these new landform units. The letter indicates the primary parent land system to which the unit is a member whilst the number reflects the number of units the land system has been divided into.

The dataset was an output of the project "Disaggregation of landform components within land systems of the Mallee" and "Wind erosion susceptibility mapping" projects conducted by DPI between 2008 and 2011. These projects were sponsored by the Mallee Catchment Management Authority with funding from the Federal government's Caring for our Country initiative.

The final project reports and the Rowan and Downes (1963) report , "A study of the land of north-western Victoria", should be referred to when analysing or utilising this dataset.

Tags: Farming, Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Borehole Geology (from Earth Resource's database)

The dataset is a subset of Minerals and Petroleum's BORES dataset and contains geological data from Minerals and Petroleum's boreholes RDBMS.

The dataset contains any borehole records which have lithological, stratigraphic or assay data as well as any borehole records where the purpose was recorded as being minerals-related.

Tags: Geoscientific information, Utilities communication
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Victorian Wetland Inventory (Current)

Polygons showing the extent and types of wetlands in Victoria. The 2025 Victorian Wetland Inventory (Current) has undergone a significant revision that increases the comprehensiveness of the state's geospatial wetland inventory. Excluding dams and storages &lt; 8ha (mostly farm dams), the number of mapped wetland polygons has approximately doubled to 64,132, adding approx. 317,000 ha additional wetland area. With the inclusion of the many small dams/storages the inventory now contains 427,540 polygons (1,101,368 ha). The revision builds on the previous inventory by importing additional wetland boundaries from other state sources including VicMAP Hydro, regional mapping by Catchment Management Authorities, Melbourne Water, saltmarsh and estuarine vegetation mapping and mapping of dams and storages. These sources were also used to update some existing inventory boundaries where the alternative was considered a more accurate representation of the wetland extent. Attributes used by the Victorian Wetland Classification Framework including system type, salinity regime, water regime, water source, dominant vegetation were populated (with assumed values where necessary) to permit all wetlands to be classified to their wetland type. Confidence scores were added reflecting the strength of evidence (low, medium, high, certain) for each attribute. Fields were added to improve traceability of wetland mapping to the various data sources.

Tags: Inland waters
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Admin - Ward Polygon 2017

Part of the Vicmap Admin dataset series. This dataset contains WARD Boundaries (WARDS) for all LGA's within Victoria, used for local government elections. The WARD_2017 data set of Victorian local government ward boundaries was created by the Victorian Electoral Commission on behalf of Local Government Victoria as part of the Electoral Representation Review process (www.vec.vic.gov.au/repreviews). 

NOTE: This dataset was superceded by WARD_2020 in August 2020, and was withdrawn in January 2021 from the Vicmap Admin product.

Tags: Boundaries, Environment, Planning cadastre
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Marine Key Ecological Features

The Marine Key Ecological Features dataset is a digital dataset representing parts of the marine ecosystem that are considered to be of importance for a marine region's biodiversity or ecosystem function and integrity.

The Marine Key Ecological Features is owned and managed by the Commonwealth of Australia, Australian Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, 2015.

Key ecological features (KEFs) meet one or more of the following criteria:
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a species, group of species, or a community with a regionally important ecological role (e.g. a predator, prey that affects a large biomass or number of other marine species);
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a species, group of species, or a community that is nationally or regionally important for biodiversity;
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an area or habitat that is nationally or regionally important for:
a) enhanced or high productivity (such as predictable upwellings - an upwelling occurs when cold nutrient-rich waters from the bottom of the ocean rise to the surface);
b) aggregations of marine life (such as feeding, resting, breeding or nursery areas);
c) biodiversity and endemism (species which only occur in a specific area); or
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a unique seafloor feature, with known or presumed ecological properties of regional significance.
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KEFs have been identified by the Australian Government on the basis of advice from scientists about the ecological processes and characteristics of the area. A workshop held in Darwin in 2007 also contributed to this scientific advice and helped to underpin the identification of key ecological features.
As new information becomes available, the spatial representations of identified key ecological features will continue to be refined and updated.

Tags: Environment, Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Victorian Coastal Cliff Assessment - Risk Score - Short Term - Now to 2040

The Coastal Cliff Risk Score datasets evaluate the likelihood and consequence of cliff instability to support risk management in areas with coastal cliffs. This includes the classification of risk across the determined timeframes and climate change scenarios.

The dataset provides a second-pass, regional assessment providing a top-down coastal compartment view of risk which. The outputs of second-pass risk assessments can be used to support discussion among stakeholders regarding coastal erosion and instability risks, broader climate change risks and the development of adaptation pathways within Victoria’s coastal compartments. However, it should be noted that this assessment has been undertaken at a high level (regional/state-wide scale) and is not appropriate for local scale planning. The data from this assessment may be superseded by local scale and site-specific assessments undertaken by a suitably qualified and experienced practitioner. The assessment is based on available data, tools and understanding of coastal processes.

The product is recommended for use at the statewide / regional scale along the Victorian coastline. Application of the data should be guided by the accompanying Victorian Coastal Cliff Assessment, Stage 2a technical report (Tonkin &amp; Taylor 2025) read in conjunction with the Stage 1 technical report, combined with appropriate expert advice. The product is not suitable for individual property scale assessments. 

Further information is contained in the study report "Victorian Coastal Cliff Assessment, Stage 2a technical report", Tonkin &amp; Taylor 2025.

Tags: Environment, Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
2010 Index of Stream Condition - Fragmentation 100m Section Summary Table

The ISC2010_FRAGMENTATION_S table is the Statistical Summary table for the Fragmentation Metric at the 100m Section level.

The ISC2010_FRAGMENTATION_S table is designed to JOIN to the ISC2010_RIVER_CENTRELINES_S feature class.

River condition in Victoria is assessed every 5 years using the Index of Stream Condition (ISC). The Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI) developed a methodology to assess the Physical Form and Riparian Vegetation components of the ISC using remote sensing data, specifically LIDAR and aerial photography. 

A State Wide mapping project was undertaken in 2010-13 to accurately map the Physical Form and Riparian Vegetation metrics of the ISC . Other ISC metrics were not assessed in the project and were derived from other sources.

The Physical Form and Riparian Vegetation Metric products are a combination of mapped Vector and Raster data as well as Tabular Summary Statistics about the mapped features. In the context of the project, the term Metrics is used to refer to both the mapped features and the summary statistics. 

Remote sensing data used includes 15cm true colour and infra-red aerial photography and four return multi-pulse LiDAR data. This source data was used to derive a variety of Raster data sets including Digital Terrain Models, Slope, Vegetation Height and Vegetation Cover. The Digital Terrain and Slope rasters were used to map Physical Form metrics including Stream Bed, Top of Bank and River Centre Lines while the Vegetation Height and Cover rasters were used to map the Riparian Vegetation metrics.
The Project Report "Aerial Remote Sensing for Physical Channel Form and Riparian Vegetation Mapping" describes the remote sensing and mapping approach used to create this data set.

Tags: Elevation, Imagery base maps earth cover, Inland waters, Transportation
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Admin - Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) Region Polygon

Part of the Vicmap Admin dataset series. This layer contains polygon features delineating the current Metropolitan Fire Brigade Region Boundaries.

Polygon features demonstrating MFB's two administrative regions. MFB Regions are a parent-group to MFB Districts.

NOTE: This dataset was superceded by FRV_REGION in July 2020, and was withdrawn in December 2020 from the Vicmap Admin product.

Tags: Boundaries, Environment
Organization: Fire Rescue Victoria
Fire Severity Classes (Spot5) for Alpine fires January/February 2003.

The Victorian Alpine Fires 2003 were ignited on 8th January 2003 by a series of lightning strikes across north-eastern Victoria. This layer depicts fire severity, derived from Spot 5 imagery across the extent of the fires to provide a reliable strategic management dataset to interpret fire effects.

Tags: Biota, Environment
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Geological units represented as two dimensional polygons (1:250,000)

This dataset contains primary geological data, namely outcropping/sub-cropping geological rock units and boundary types separating rock units. Other geological features (e.g. fault or dyke) are included where the feature forms a boundary to rock units. The polygon edges are constructed from the corresponding geological contacts and faults layer. This layer contains stratigraphic units down to the formation level for formal geological units.

Tags: Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Geological zones of contact metamorphism interpreted from geophysical interpretation (1:250,000) Arc

This dataset displays areas of contact and regional metamorphism, and the style of metamorphism, mapped using using combined interpretations of airborne magnetic, radiometric and gravity survey data at 1:250,000.

At scales larger than 1:120,000 the display is a combination of both 1:100,000 and 1:250,000 geophysical mapping. Recent 1:250,000 geophysical mapping has been of such quality and detail it has been used to supersede older coincident 1:100,000 mapping. This occurs in the following areas: St Arnaud 7524, Dunolly 7624, Charlton 7525, Wedderburn 7625 and part of Ararat 7423 are superseded by St Arnaud SJ54-4. Bendigo 7724, Heathcote 7824 and Nagambie 7924 are superseded by Bendigo SJ55-1. 

Balmoral 7223, Ararat 7423, Horsham SJ54-3 and St Arnaud SJ54-4 supersede Grampians 7323 where there is overlap.

The Ouyen SI54-15 and Horsham SJ54-3 map areas are datasets derived from a combination of Geological Interpretation of Basement Geophysical Features maps and Geological Interpretation of Post-Cratonic Geophysical Features maps performed by Moore, D. H.

This data has been collected by the Geological Survey of Victoria. This dataset is accompanied by other datasets representing geological polygons and boundaries, sub-surface geological polygons, structural lines and miscellaneous lines.

Tags: Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Elevation - Relief Polygon Fuzzy

This table will hold polygons depicting indicative extents of the area of the relief feature. Each of these features has some type of non specific but best derived boundary. These geographic relief areas depict features such as plains and ranges. These polygons contain intelligent information including name, parent feature name, feature type &amp; scale use codes enabling flexible, intelligent and cartographic labelling which is both multi scale and non scale dependent.

Tags: Elevation, Environment, Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Vicmap Index Vic StateView 2022/23 1.5m Mosaic Tiles

Part of Vicmap Index product, this dataset comprises footprints delineating mosaic tiles for Vic StateView 2022/23 1.5m. Each footprint represents the spatial extent of a tile, housing essential metadata such as raw strips ID, satellite used, capture date, off-nadir angle, and tile name. Positioned as a comprehensive metadata layer, this product is designed to enhance the utility of Vic StateView 2022/23 1.5m, offering crucial information for data interpretation and utilisation.

Tags: Boundaries, Environment, Imagery base maps earth cover
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Port Fairy 100 ARI 2080 0.8m SLR Inundation

The Port Fairy Local Coastal Hazard Assessment (LCHA) provides information on the extent of coastal hazards and their physical impacts for the Port Fairy coastal environment.

This data represents the inundation extent for the Port Fairy study area. It has been derived from the combined analysis of the results of "bathtub" inundation modelling (considering astronomical tide, barometric setup and wave setup) and "dynamic coastal inundation numerical modelling" for the coastal area of the Port Fairy township (estimating combined ocean and catchment flooding).

The following conditions were assumed:
- 20 year Average Recurrence Interval (ARI) Riverine Boundary Condition
- 100 year ARI Ocean Boundary Condition
- 2080, 0.8 m Sea Level Rise
- Dune breach extent (180m) next to East Beach rock revetment end

Details of the assumptions made in the derivation of this information can be found in project reports on the Our Coast website: http://www.ourcoast.org.au/cb_pages/resources.php.
Users of this information should read these project reports to understand the limitations of the data.

Tags:  atmosphere,  meteorology, Climatology, Environment, Geoscientific information, Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Beach Facilities and Safety Rating

Victorian state-wide dataset containing facilities at all ocean beaches, in addition to assessing the nature and level of physical beach hazards at each beach, and thereby the level of public risk and safety. Facilities are indicated as present (true= T) or absent (false= F) and include bbq, picnic areas, phone, shops, showers, swimming pool, toilets and water. Beach safety is indicated by a hazard rating score (0-10) based on the physical characteristics of the beach that could impact on public swimming safety. The beach name is also denoted.

The data outputs were identified in the Australian Beach Safety and Management Program (ABSAMP) undertaken jointly by Surf Life Saving Australia (SLCA) and the Coastal Studies Unit (CSU) of the University of Sydney in late 1999.

Tags: Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Coal Seam and Basement Roof

Coal seam roof contoured at 10 m.

<a href="&#09;http://er-info.dpi.vic.gov.au/publications/documentation/geovic_3/earth_resources/coal_model_modelled_seam_descriptions_2011.html&#09;">Link to Further Coal Seam model Information</a>

<a href="&#09;http://geology.data.vic.gov.au/CoalResource/&#09;">Link to Coal Model Data (works in firefox , but not internet explorer)</a>

Tags: Economy, Geoscientific information, Structure, Utilities communication
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action