AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Geophysical metamorphism (1:100,000), Geophysical Interpretation of Contact and Regional Metamorphism Polygon

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 1:100,000.

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occurs in the following areas: St Arnaud 7524, Dunolly 7624, Charlton 7525, Wedderburn 7625 and part of Ararat 7423 are superseded by St Arnaud SJ54-4. Bendigo 7724, Heathcote 7824 and Nagambie 7924 are superseded by Bendigo SJ55-1.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.

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
Habitat Value

Habitat Value is a modelled raster dataset that provides a view of relative biodiversity importance of all parts of the Victorian landscape. The dataset ranks each pixel in Victoria on a scale of 0-100, with lower ranked pixels having low predicted biodiversity values, and higher ranked pixels predicted to have higher biodiversity values. The main inputs to the dataset are habitat distribution models of vascular plants and vertebrate fauna. These input datasets were then analysed by Zonation v5 software utilising Core-Area Zonation: Maximum retention. This integrated information is important because decision-makers need access to an objective, comprehensive and spatially explicit view of the importance of biodiversity assets to enable comparison of locations across Victoria.

Tags: Environment
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Land Administration Themes - Parcel, Property and Road Casement Centroid

Centroid is a point layer belonging to VLAT and consists of data representing centroids for polygons representing Victoria's land parcels and properties.

This dataset s a raw superset of VMPROP_CENTROID. It shows the current and retired states of each feature instance. It supports feature versioning (UFI_RETIRED) and enables feature edting chaining (UFI_OLD).

This layer should be used in conjuction with the other layers and aspatial tables that make up VLAT see metadata for VLAT.

VLAT Property Content includes
 · Parcel and Property Polygon views;
 · Parcel and Property Identifiers - parcel descriptors (including Standard Parcel Identifiers (SPI)), 
 Council reference numbers;
 · Registered and proposed (All proposals entered prior to July 2002 are non-polygonal and all 
 entered post July 2002 are polygonised) parcels;
 · Crown and Freehold land differentiation;
 · Cadastral Road Casements;
 · Easements (Note: all new easements are being captured for the whole State. Previously, only 
 easements in the metropolitan area were captured. There is no current program to review and 
 capture missing easements);
 · Unique Feature Identifiers, date stamps and data quality information.
Spatial Datasets comprising Vicmap Property are listed below. See their metadata entries for more detailed metadata.
Annotation Text - Vicmap Property (ANNOTATION_TEXT)
Cadastral Area Boundary - Vicmap Property (CAD_AREA_BDY)
Easement Line - Vicmap Property (EASEMENT)
Parcel View - Vicmap Property (PARCEL_VIEW)
Property View - Vicmap Property (PROPERTY_VIEW)

Tags: Boundaries, Environment, Planning cadastre
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Victorian Aquifer Framework (VAF) Salinity Distribution - LTA_TDS

This dataset is the Victorian Aquifer Framework (VAF) Salinity Distribution. It refers to the salinity distribution for Aquifer Number of 111 (Lower Tertiary Aquifer). The salinity distributions reflect the beneficial use segments prescribed in the State Environment Protection Policy (Waters) (2018)
Please refer to the master metadata record VAF 'Victorian Aquifer Framework (VAF) Salinity Distribution for detailed information.

Tags: Geoscientific information, Inland waters
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
2010 Index of Stream Condition - Large Trees 100m Section Summary Table

The ISC2010_LARGE_TREES_S table is the Statistical Summary table for the Large Trees Metric at the 100m Section level.

The ISC2010_LARGE_TREES_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
Victorian Wetland Environments and Extent - up to 1994

Polygons showing the extent and types of wetlands in Victoria based on photography taken during the 1970's and 80's. Wetlands are classified into primary categories based on water regimes and subdivided into sub areas based on vegetation or hydologic attributes.
The polygon boundaries were derived from digitizing marked up aerial photography interpretation.

Tags: Inland waters
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Victorian Coal Bearing Sub-basin Domains

Details the location and attributes of each known coal bearing subbasin/ coal domain in Victoria. 
Spatial accuracy defined as attribute "Loc_Acc"

Data is from the "Victorian Coal - A 2006 Inventory of Resources"
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COAL250 and COAL100 have improved resource information , but coverages are extremely limited.

Tags: Geoscientific information, Utilities communication
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Designated Firewood Collection Areas

Firewood collection is allowed in designated firewood collection areas. 

Collection areas are located, where possible, to avoid sites of environmental and cultural significance, and to make use of the by-products of activities such as commercial timber harvesting and road construction.

This data set is edited on a real-time basis, to view the most current version please see the Firewood page on the DSE website or Forest Explorer. The version provided to you was extracted on xx date at xx time.

Tags: Biota, Farming
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Relative Forest Growth Stage Classification

This layer contains the relative forest growth stage classes. The classification is based on Eucalypt growth stages identified by Max Jacobs (Growth habits of the eucalypts, 1955) and described in terms of the relative contribution of irregular to regular to regrowth forms to the total crown cover. The data has been collected to SFRI standards for the old growth forest mapping program.

Tags: Biota, Farming
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Coastal Plans Additional Plans

Dataset containing an indication of the geographic extent covered by Coastal Plans. The need for this information was identified by Stakeholders of the DSE Future Coasts "Spatially Enabling Coastal Assets" (SECAP) project in 2011/12. The dataset contains attributes identifying the report title, year of the report, unique identifier assigned to report, link that allows the report to be directly referenced, and link to source website page used to locate and obtain document. To support the capture of a suitable geographic extent covered by Coastal Plans each plan was reviewed and categorised in terms of the area it covered. For plans covering a local government area, Catchment Management Authority, Coastal Management Board area, or township, a nominal buffer was applied around the spatial extent of these administrative units. For reports containing a clear study area, this boundary was captured and used to depict the geographical area covered by the report.

Tags: Oceans, Society
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
LCC, ECC, and VEAC unreviewed areas

A GIS layer of areas, former cities, townships, and boroughs that have not been assessed or reviewed in an investigation by LCC, ECC, or VEAC. 
The Land Conservation Council Act 1970 excluded areas from public land use studies based on municipal status; this criteria was not included in the two subsequent Acts establishing the ECC and VEAC. The status of former cities, towns, and boroughs (outside the metropolitan Melbourne area) that were excluded from past studies and have not been subsequently assessed by the ECC or VEAC is shown as well as the current municipality. Note that several municipal areas were restructured during the interval of past studies and the status of recommendations in areas technically excluded at the time of final recommendations was treated variably (recommendations for the former City of South Barwon were accepted in Melbourne Study Area Final Recommendations (1977); recommendations for, City of Cranbourne, City of Seymour in Melbourne Area District 2 Review Final Recommendations (1994) were not accepted). A government response to accept any of these recommendations is taken to mean that the LCC’s recommendations apply.
All municipalities except Queenscliffe were restructured between 1993 and 1995. Municipal boundaries at the time of LCC public land use studies, in most cases, do not reflect the current local government areas across the state.
The beds of the Gippsland Lakes were excluded from all public land use investigations by the LCC, ECC and VEAC.
Thematic land use reviews such as the LCC’s Rivers and Streams Special Investigation, Wilderness Special Investigation, Historic Places Special Investigation South-Western Victoria, ECC’s Marine, Coastal &amp; Estuarine Investigation covered specific types of public land that was within some of the excluded municipalities.

Tags: Boundaries, Environment
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Geological lines based on geological interpretation of geophysical data (1:1,000,000)

This dataset contains primary geological data, namely Pre-Permian geological rock units and boundary types separating rock units. The linear features in this dataset are only comprised of geological boundaries and faults.

The data has been collected by the Geological Survey of Victoria. This dataset is accompanied by another dataset representing metamorphism.

The pre-Permian geology data from Simons and Moore (1999) shows the interpreted geology of Victoria, with the Permian and younger units stripped off. It was compiled from the surface geology map and interpretation of the extensive new magnetic, radiometric and gravity data along with seismic profiles where available. It attempts to reconcile the mapped geology with the geophysical data sets, to produce a map that is both geologically and geophysically reasonable. The data should be used in combination with the state magnetic image as this image gives extra information that could not be adequately presented on the map, such as sedimentary or contact-metamorphic changes in the magnetic properties of rock packages, dyke swarms, and thick basalt cover. 

The legend subdivides the rocks by time and palaeoenvironment or geochemistry, which gives a complementary view of the geology to that of the surface Australian crust during Phanerozoic orogenic events.

Granites were subdivided using White and Chappell's (1983) S, I and A classification, as this is a subdivision that is both generally understood and works well with the magnetic data. The time subdivisions are at the natural breaks in the Victorian geological record, usually the ends of orogenies. This has meant that all the intrusions associated with a particular event are grouped in the same time slice, even when some could perhaps be allocated to a younger time slice.

SIMONS, B.A.., AND MOORE, D.H. 1999. Victoria 1:1 000 000 Pre-Permian Geology. Geological Survey of Victoria.

WHITE, A.J.R. &amp; CHAPPELL, B.W., 1983. Granitoid types and their distribution in the Lachlan Fold Belt, southeastern Australia. In Roddick, J.A. (ed.) Circum-Pacific Terranes, Geological Society of America Memoir 159, pp. 21-34.

Tags: Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Admin - Fire Rescue Victoria (FRV) Region Polygon

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

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

This data is current as of 1 Dec 2021.

Tags: Boundaries, Environment
Organization: Fire Rescue Victoria
Native Vegetation Regulation Location (2017)

This replaces NVR2013_LOCRISK_V2. This dataset describes the native vegetation location category for all land in Victoria for the purposes in the native vegetation removal regulations. Location category is calculated from a set of spatial models describing the importance of suitable habitat within the current extent of native vegetation for many rare or threatened species, and the location of an endangered Ecological Vegetation Class or sensitive coast or wetland area.

Tags: Biota
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
GIPPSLAND LAKES 10% AEP 0.2M SLR INUNDATION

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

The data represents the extent of the 10% Average Exceedance Probability (AEP) water level within the Gippsland Lakes, incorporating 0.2m sea level rise conditions based on hydrodynamic modelling. The 10% AEP water level conditions comprise of a combination of catchment generated inflows, coastal ocean levels and wind setup.

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
Victorian Wetland Inventory (Pre-European)

Polygons showing the extent of wetlands in Victoria prior to European settlement. Includes all wetlands from Wetland_1788 and naturally occurring wetlands that were added to the updated current wetland extent (WETLAND_CURRENT). Where available original Corrick classification (primary categories based on water and salinity regimes) were retained. The polygon boundaries were derived from aerial photography interpretation. The most recent update to this database was in 2021.

Tags: Inland waters
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Leadbeater's Possum confirmed colonies within Central Highlands RFA

The Leadbeater's Possum Advisory Group (LBPAG) established in 2013, was tasked with developing recommendations (actions) to support the recovery of Leadbeater's Possum (LBP) while maintaining a sustainable timber industry (LBPAG Recommendations Report, January 2014).

Bushfires in February 2009 and ongoing habitat decline have led to a reduced population of Leadbeater's Possum. The remaining wild populations is therefore critical to the species' recovery. 

Prior to the LBPAG there was no specific protection for known colonies. LBPAG recommended that colonies are protected to aid the capacity for the species to recover. This will be achieved by removing threats that can be directly controlled (e.g. timber harvesting) or implement programs that minimise the risk of unplanned impacts (e.g. bushfire).

Tags: Biota, Farming
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Car Parking / PPTN Area

Area that is impacted by the reduced car parking requirements for uses in commercial areas and for land within walking distance of high-quality public transport.

For land within 400m of public transport (as shown on the new Principal Public Transport Network Area Maps, the reduced carparking rates specified in Column B of Table 1 in Clause 52.06 will apply. These rates will apply to the whole of a site, even if it is only part of the site which is within the PPTN Area

Tags: Structure
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Vicmap Admin - Metropolitan Fire Brigade (MFB) District Polygon

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

Polygon features demonstrating MFB's five administrative districts. MFB Districts are a sub-group of MFB Regions.

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

Tags: Boundaries, Environment
Organization: Fire Rescue Victoria
VEAC Metropolitan Melbourne Open Space Inventory

The dataset consists of polygons delineating areas of public land(1) and local council land(2) that have been classified as public open space. Polygon attributes describe the public open space category and owner. The datset covers 31 municipalities in metropolitan Melbourne. 

The definition used to attribute a polyon as public open space is 'those areas of public land and local council land that have an accepted and ongoing community use for outdoor recreation and informal activities, and that are freely accessible to the public'.

The VEAC Metropolitan Melbourne Open Space Inventory does not include Commonwealth land; schools; cemeteries; gated facilities; road plantations; closed roads; concourses around stadia; inaccessible Trust for Nature properties; 'services and utilities' public land that does not have an ongoing recreational use; future open space (e.g. areas covered by Public Aquisition Overlays); and uncategorised public land.
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Tags: Boundaries, Planning cadastre, Society
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Land Administration Themes - Crown Land Tenure and Cadastral Area Boundary Join Table

Crown Land Cadastral Area Boundary is an aspatial table that identifies the CAD_AREA_BDY lines associated wtith a CL_TENURE_VIEW polygon. VLAT consists of data representing Victoria's land parcels.

This dataset is a raw superset of VMCLTEURE CL_TENURE_CAD_AREA_BDY. It shows the current and retired states of each feature instance. It supports feature versioning (UFI_RETIRED).

Tags: Planning cadastre
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
2016 Bellarine Peninsula 1% AEP Coastal Inundation Dynamic Model with 0m Sea Lvel Rise - Highflow Scenario

The Bellarine-Corio Bay Local Coastal Hazard Assessment (LCHA) provides information on the extent of coastal hazards and their physical impacts for the Bellarine-Corio Bay coastal environment.

Dynamic inundation modelling was carried out to create this data layer for 1% Annual Exceedance Probability (AEP) coastal inundation under the assumption of 0 m Sea Level Rise in 2016 ("High Flow" scenario, for the following study areas along the coast of the Bellarine Peninsula and Greater Geelong area: Barwon Heads / Lake Connewarre; Breamlea; Newcomb; and Queenscliff / Lakers Cutting.

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.

Attribute Information: Max_d - Maximum depth (m); max_s - Maximum velocity (m/s); max_vxd - Velocity*Depth Criteria; max_wse - Maximuum water surface elevation (mAHD).

Tags:  atmosphere,  meteorology, Climatology, Environment, Geoscientific information, Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
VicGrid (AGD66) Graticule - 1 km interval

This dataset is designed to be used as a "graticule layer", allowing a graticule to be drawn on maps when using software packages that don't support their generation in other ways. It consists of lines spaced at 1km intervals, running north-south (attributed with Easting) and east-west (attributed with Northing). It is applicable for use where a VicGrid graticule based on the AGD66 datum is required. Can be projected to provide a Vicgrid (AGD66) graticule over data based on other co-ordinate systems (eg Geographic or AMG).

This dataset forms part of a series of graticule layers, one for each common projection.

Tags: Boundaries
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action