AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Coastal bird habitats on the Victorian coast

This layer identifies bird habitats in the Victorian coastal region. The layer is a polygon coverage with the polygon areas representing the main area of the respective bird habitats. Sites were identified from a broad range of published and unpublished sources of information and from personal communications made by experts in the field. In 2015 some additional locations were added with data from Birdlife Australia Shorebird 2020 Data. This dataset was formerly know as SHOREBIRD HABITAT but was renamed as it contains sites for seabirds and other birds.

Tags: Biota, Environment, Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Soil Grids of Victorian - Soil Sand %

A set of Digital Soil Maps (mean, 5th and 95th percentile prediction values) of soil sand % across Victoria in geotiff format. Sand is considered to be the 20 um to 2mm mass fraction of the &lt; 2mm soil material.

Grids of key soil properties have been produced for Victoria. These grids, in raster format, provide prediction and confidence interval values for key soil properties at a 90 m grid resolution for six set depths; 0 to 5 cm, 5 to 15 cm, 15 to 30 cm, 30 to 60 cm, 60 to 100 cm and 100 to 200 cm, across Victoria.

The grids have been designed to meet the specifications created by GlobalSoilMap (www.globalsoilmap.net) to develop and deliver detailed soil information in a consistent form.

The grids are a spatial interpolation of key soil properties to support modelling and decision making in resource management, agricultural production, land use policy and planning, and in further research such as ecosystem modelling.

The methodology used to develop the Soil Grids of Victoria has been based on that refined by the Australian Soil and Landscape Grid. Data and knowledge embedded into existing soil related datasets, e.g. soil profile and land mapping collections, have been key inputs. 

Whilst the new maps show an immense amount of fine scale detail, and are our best spatially continuous and exhaustive estimates of soil attributes across all of Victoria, they are most appropriately used for assessments of regional to state-wide trends of soil properties and their relationship with their environment and pedogenesis. Care should be taken when using the grids for local assessments and it is recommended that the confidence intervals are included at this scale.

Tags: Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Interpreted Faults, Latrobe Group, Gippsland Basin

This dataset consists of geological faults for the Top Latrobe Group interpreted from industry seismic data compiled by the Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI). 

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
2010 Index of Stream Condition - Stream Bed Width Reach polygon features

The ISC2010_STREAMBED_WIDTH polygon features represent the width between the Toe of each opposing bank for each River Reach.

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 Land Use Information System 2016

The Victorian Land Use Information System (VLUIS) 2016 dataset has been created by the Spatial Sciences Group of the Agriculture Victoria Research Division in the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport, and Resources. It covers the entire landmass of Victoria and separately describes the land tenure, land use and land cover across the state at the cadastral parcel level.

The methodology for creating the VLUIS is described in Morse-McNabb et al. (2015) with the following notable changes:
1. Land use data provided by the Office of the Valuer-General of Victoria for the 2014 year has been used as a base input. Readily available sources of land use information from government and industry have been used to provide updates to the land tenure and land use components of the 2016 dataset. This update process has not been exhaustive and will continue as new data sources become available. Parcels that have been updated and the source of their updates have been recorded in the attribute table of the dataset. The land cover mapping method remains unchanged to previous versions of the VLUIS.
2. Land parcels within urban areas, mapped in previous versions, have been masked out vastly reducing the size of the 2016 dataset.

The data is in the form of an ESRI feature class. 

To use the VLUIS data correctly it is important to understand the difference between the three components of VLUIS. The Guidelines for land use mapping in Australia: principles, procedures and definitions, Edition 3 published in 2006 by the Commonwealth of Australia, defines them as follows: 
Land tenure is the form of an interest in land. Some forms of tenure (such as pastoral leases or nature conservation reserves) relate directly to land use and land management practice. 
Land use means the purpose to which the land cover is committed. Some land uses, such as agriculture, have a characteristic land cover pattern. These usually appear in land cover classifications. Other land uses, such as nature conservation, are not readily discriminated by a characteristic land cover pattern. For example, where the land cover is woodland, land use may be timber production or nature conservation. 
Land cover refers to the physical surface of the earth, including various combinations of vegetation types, soils, exposed rocks and water bodies as well as anthropogenic elements, such as agriculture and built environments. Land cover classes can usually be discriminated by characteristic patterns using remote sensing.

A metadata statement, for the VLUIS product, and ESRI symbology files for the data can be freely downloaded from the VLUIS project page on the Victorian Resources Online website: http://vro.agriculture.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/vrosite.nsf/pages/vluis

DOI 10.4226/92/590abbe6ea3f1

Tags: Farming, Society
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Victorian Land Use Information System 2012/2013

The Victorian Land Use Information System (VLUIS) dataset has been created by the Spatial Information Sciences Group of the Agriculture Research Division in the Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport, and Resources. The method used to create VLUIS is significantly different to traditional methods used to create land use information and has been designed to create regular and consistent data over time. It covers the entire landmass of Victoria and separately describes the land tenure, land use and land cover for each cadastral parcel across the state, biennially for land tenure and use and annually for land cover; for each year from 2006 to 2015. The data is in the form of a feature class. 

To use the VLUIS data correctly it is important to understand the difference between the three components of VLUIS. The Guidelines for land use mapping in Australia: principles, procedures and definitions, Edition 3 published in 2006 by the Commonwealth of Australia, defines them as follows: 
Land tenure is the ownership and leasehold interests in land (VLUIS only reports ownership). Land use means the purpose to which the land cover is committed or the property type. Land cover refers to the physical surface of the earth, including various combinations of vegetation types, soils, exposed rocks and water bodies as well as anthropogenic elements, such as agriculture and built environments. 
The Victorian Land Use Information System (VLUIS) is an ongoing project designed to maintain and manage the Victorian land use mapping dataset.

The methodology is still being refined and as such the dataset is subject to improvements and the release of later versions. It is important you speak to the custodian to be advised of the technical details of the dataset and its utility for your desired use. 

Irrigation activity is included when available. The data was not available in 2006-07 and there was incomplete coverage in 2012-13 and therefore the irrigation activity was not included in either of those datasets.

Land cover classification accuracy varies between classes and the overall classification accuracy may be misleading in terms of the accuracy of an individual class. Users are asked to contact the data custodians for detailed class accuracy information if required for their purposes.

The dataset does not replace LandUse100 which is still valid for the time in which it was created (1996 - 2005).

A metadata statement, for the VLUIS 2012/13 product, and ESRI symbology files for the data can be freely downloaded from the VLUIS project page:
http://vro.depi.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/vrosite.nsf/pages/vluis

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n08t0

Tags: Farming, Society
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Estuary-drained portions of Victorian coastal catchments

Areas of catchments that drain directly to Victorian estuaries - i.e. not via major freshwater tributaries. The layer was derived by Deakin University as part of the project: "Linking catchments to the sea: Understanding how human activities impact on Victorian estuaries" funded by the National Heritage Trust and the Department of Sustainability and Environment.

Tags: Inland waters
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Soil Grids of Victorian - Soil Clay %

A set of Digital Soil Maps (mean, 5th and 95th percentile prediction values) of soil clay % across Victoria in geotiff format. Soil clay is considered to be the &lt;2 um mass fraction of the &lt; 2mm soil material.

Grids of key soil properties have been produced for Victoria. These grids, in raster format, provide prediction and confidence interval values for key soil properties at a 90 m grid resolution for six set depths; 0 to 5 cm, 5 to 15 cm, 15 to 30 cm, 30 to 60 cm, 60 to 100 cm and 100 to 200 cm, across Victoria.

The grids have been designed to meet the specifications created by GlobalSoilMap (www.globalsoilmap.net) to develop and deliver detailed soil information in a consistent form.

The grids are a spatial interpolation of key soil properties to support modelling and decision making in resource management, agricultural production, land use policy and planning, and in further research such as ecosystem modelling.

The methodology used to develop the Soil Grids of Victoria has been based on that refined by the Australian Soil and Landscape Grid. Data and knowledge embedded into existing soil related datasets, e.g. soil profile and land mapping collections, have been key inputs. 

Whilst the new maps show an immense amount of fine scale detail, and are our best spatially continuous and exhaustive estimates of soil attributes across all of Victoria, they are most appropriately used for assessments of regional to state-wide trends of soil properties and their relationship with their environment and pedogenesis. Care should be taken when using the grids for local assessments and it is recommended that the confidence intervals are included at this scale.

Tags: Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
2010 Index of Stream Condition - Full Set of ISC2010 Data Sets

The ISC2010_FULL_METRICS_PACKAGE represents the full set of available ISC2010 data sets. This includes all spatial (vector) features and all a-spatial statistical summary tables. The individual ISC2010 metric data sets can also be accessed separately.

The Product Description "ISC2010 Remote Sensing Metrics" describes the remote sensing and mapping approach used to create all ISC2010 Metic data sets. Go to http://ics.water.vic.gov.au/ics/

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
Catchment Management Authority boundaries

This layer represents the Catchment Management Authority (CMA) boundaries (derived from CALP100). It is indicative and should not be used for operational decisions about funding.
The CMAs were established on 1 July 1997 under the Catchment and Land Protection Act 1994 (CaLP Act) to create a whole catchment approach to natural resource management in Victoria. The CMAs combined the roles of the former, River Management Boards and CaLP Boards, and community-based advisory groups such as salinity plan implementation groups and water quality working groups. The 2014 correction was on the West Gippsland and East Gippsland CMAs border around the Gippsland Lakes. The 2021 amendment was a realignment between the Melbourne Water boundary and surrounding CaLP regions. These boundaries now align with the waterway management district boundaries for Melbourne Water and surrounding CaLP regions. This followed an amalgamation of the Port Phillip and Westernport CMA with Melbourne Water as a new authority administering the Port Phillip and Westernport CaLP region in December 2021. 
It is accurate to +/- 100 metres for 80% of the time.

Tags: Environment, Inland waters
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Bedrock Bore Free Air (FA) gravity

This dataset comprises all basement boreholes drilled in outcropping bedrock areas which have been used for the control of Free Air (FA) gravity data interpolated to each outcrop location. These boreholes have been used to provide better control for analysing FA gravity data.

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
Open Space for Everyone 30 Year Investment Framework Measures - Improved Community Health and Wellbeing

The 30 Year Investment Opportunities Framework will guide investment in the development of Melbourne’s metropolitan open space system.
The Framework responds to the following issues identified in the Open Space for Everyone Strategy:
•   There is an existing inequity of access to open space provision across the metropolitan area.
•   The current measures used to define this inequity are quantitative only, and is based on out-of-date data. 
•   There is currently no alternative cost effective and replicable, decision-making framework that considers qualitative and quantitative spatial data and information sources. 
•   Consequently, there is also no evidence-based metropolitan wide guidance as to ‘where to invest and why’ that would help address current inequity and respond to emerging needs.
•   Melbourne doesn’t have an integrated, metropolitan-wide investment plan that identifies regional and landscape scale gaps in the network across municipal boundaries. 
The Framework
The Framework is a planning and investment tool that will be used by State Government, Local Government and Land Managers to prioritise funding to open space projects that have the greatest impact on health and wellbeing, creating a healthier biodiversity, responding to climate change and delivering social and economic benefits.
The Framework aligns to the Open Space for Everyone Strategy. Decision making criteria have been developed as qualitative and quantitative measures for the four Strategy goals:
•   Improved community health and wellbeing.
•   Healthier biodiversity.
•   Enhanced climate change resilience.
•   Maximised economic and social benefits.

Tags: Economy, Environment, Health, Society
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
WESTERN PORT 10% AEP MSL INUNDATION

The Western Port Local Coastal Hazard Assessment (LCHA) provides information on the extent of coastal hazards and their physical impacts for the Western Port coastal environment. Information has been collected on inundation hazards (storm surge and catchment inflows) using modelling for different sea level rise scenarios.
This data represents the extent of shoreline inundation for the 10% Average Exceedance Probability (AEP) catchment generated flood for the current mean sea level scenario. 

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
Volcanic Bore Free Air (FA) gravity

This dataset comprises all basement boreholes reaching bedrock passing through basalt covered areas used for bore control of Free Air (FA) Gravity data. These boreholes have been used to give better control for interpolating to FA gravity data.

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 Index

This product contains line, &amp; polygon features delineating various current governement and industry indices, excluding Melway. It is a combination of a number of data sets that are a part of the Vicmap Index suite of products.
Data sets in Vicmap Index are listed below. See their metadata entries for more detailed metadata.

Framework:
FR_FRAMEWORK_AREA_POLYGON
FR_FRAMEWORK_AREA_LINE

Vicmap Topographic Index
VICMAP_MAPINDEX_SPECIAL
VICMAP_MAPINDEX_100D
VICMAP_MAPINDEX_50D
VICMAP_MAPINDEX_50S
VICMAP_MAPINDEX_30DA3
VICMAP_MAPINDEX_30DA4
VICMAP_MAPINDEX_25D
VICMAP_MAPINDEX_25S

Spatial Vision's Vicmap Mapbook Index

MAPBOOK_MAPINDEX_150_ED6
MAPBOOK_MAPINDEX_100_ED6
MAPBOOK_MAPINDEX_50_ED6
MAPBOOK_MAPINDEX_20_ED6
MAPBOOK_MAPINDEX_15_ED6

MAPBOOK_PAGEGRID_150_ED6
MAPBOOK_PAGEGRID_100_ED6
MAPBOOK_PAGEGRID_50_ED6
MAPBOOK_PAGEGRID_20_ED6
MAPBOOK_PAGEGRID_15_ED6

Vicroads Index
VICROADS_MAPINDEX_250_ED8
VICROADS_MAPINDEX_100_ED8
VICROADS_MAPINDEX_25_ED8
VICROADS_PAGEGRID_250_ED8
VICROADS_PAGEGRID_100_ED8
VICROADS_PAGEGRID_25_ED8

Tags: Boundaries
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Soil Grids of Victorian - Field Capacity %

A set of Digital Soil Maps (mean, 5th and 95th percentile prediction values) of field capacity % across Victoria in geotiff format.

Grids of key soil properties have been produced for Victoria. These grids, in raster format, provide prediction and confidence interval values for key soil properties at a 90 m grid resolution for six set depths; 0 to 5 cm, 5 to 15 cm, 15 to 30 cm, 30 to 60 cm, 60 to 100 cm and 100 to 200 cm, across Victoria.

The grids have been designed to meet the specifications created by GlobalSoilMap (www.globalsoilmap.net) to develop and deliver detailed soil information in a consistent form.

The grids are a spatial interpolation of key soil properties to support modelling and decision making in resource management, agricultural production, land use policy and planning, and in further research such as ecosystem modelling.

The methodology used to develop the Soil Grids of Victoria has been based on that refined by the Australian Soil and Landscape Grid. Data and knowledge embedded into existing soil related datasets, e.g. soil profile and land mapping collections, have been key inputs. 

Whilst the new maps show an immense amount of fine scale detail, and are our best spatially continuous and exhaustive estimates of soil attributes across all of Victoria, they are most appropriately used for assessments of regional to state-wide trends of soil properties and their relationship with their environment and pedogenesis. Care should be taken when using the grids for local assessments and it is recommended that the confidence intervals are included at this scale.

Tags: Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Structural Vegetation (1995)

Structural vegetation mapping of forest in Victoria based on the Land Conservation Council (LCC) vegetation classification scheme.
The layer is independent of land tenure and is a combination of existing data from multiple sources (predominantly LCC) and primary mapping based on satellite image interpretation.
Using histoirc 1:63,360 forest maps as a source.

Tags: Biota, Farming
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Open File Digital Airborne Geophysical Survey Index for Victoria

Contains survey boundary polygons and associated survey metadata that include acquisition parameters. All open file airborne geophysical surveys are included where data were acquired digitally.
Data for the surveys is available via GADDS http://www.geoscience.gov.au/cgi-bin/mapserv?map=/nas/web/ops/prod/apps/mapserver/gadds/wms_map/gadds.map&amp;mode=browse

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