AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Fragmentation metrics for threatened flora sub-populations of the Wheatbelt DBCA Region

This dataset contains the location of threatened flora sub-populations across the DBCA Wheatbelt Region and metrics that describe the level of fragmentation of remnant vegetation that each population is exposed to.  Fragmentation metrics are based on remnant vegetation mapping and were calculated using ArcMap Near tools (distance metrics) and ArcMap Spatial Analyst focal statistics (proportion of remnant vegetation within a set area).  

<strong><em>Note: to access the data, select the data source link located on the right-hand side.</em></strong>

Tags: Threatened flora, fragmentation, remnant vegetation
Organization: Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
Surface Water Management Subareas (DWER-042)

Surface Water Management subareas for Western Australia were derived in consultation with the regional offices, and geometry is based on hydrographic catchments. Regional Department of Environment officers identified areas of similar management requirements to define boundaries or aggregations of hydrographic subcatchments. Regions with notable management concerns both currently and possibly in the future were identified to become management subareas. Management subareas will be used in the calculation of sustainable yields, flow rates and ultimately these calculations will be available for water allocation and natural resource management decisions. In addition, native vegetation clearing values have been calculated for each of the subareas located within the extent of the South-West region of Western Australia, for input into the allocation process.

The Surface Water subarea data was developed in order to give a clear understanding of surface water availability and to provide management tools to make good water allocation and natural resources management decisions.

Dataset was formerly known as Surface Water Management Subareas (DOW-021)

Tags: DWER, WATER Management, Water, Water Hydrology, Water Surface
Organization: Department of Water and Environmental Regulation
XB Planning App

The City of Perth Scheme Maps provide a comprehensive spatial representation of key planning and zoning frameworks that guide land use and property development within the City of Perth local government area. These map layers incorporate detailed information from multiple statutory schemes and redevelopment plans, enabling planners, developers, residents, and government officials to understand regulatory controls and future urban growth directions.

Tags: Building, COP, City of Perth, Development, LGA boundary, Planning, Properties, XB
Organization: City of Perth
Seawater Interface Depth Superficial Aq: Esperance Area Contours (DWER-134)

This dataset shows the geographic location and depth to the seawater interface (SWI) in metres below groundwater level (mBGWL) in the Superficial Aquifer, in the Esperance groundwater area.  

This dataset is a derived location based on an assessment of data for the period November 2020 to November 2021. The 2016 Interpretation of TEMPEST Airbourne Electromagnetic Data from Esperance (Mira Geoscience) was also used in creating this dataset. This location can change pending known factors that impact the location of the seawater interface including the time of year, tidal movements, abstraction, recharge and throughflow.  

The full assessment of the SWI in this area is documented in report HR437 Esperance Seawater Interface Priority Area Assessment.

This dataset is sourced from the Statewide Seawater Interface Project, funded by the Government of Western Australia under the State Groundwater Investigation Program. 

In the Esperance area, the project runs from April 2020 to March 2023 and the data are collected from: 
- Seawater interface monitoring (SWIM) bores installed or owned by the department
- Downhole natural gamma and induction logging
- Installation of data loggers and continuous static groundwater level (SWL) measurements from data loggers
- Electrical conductivity (EC) depth profiling
- Groundwater chemistry sampling.
- Airborne electromagnetic (AEM) survey.
The above data that is owned by the department can be downloaded from the Water Information Reporting (WIR) Portal or by contacting the Department. AEM survey data can be downloaded via the interactive geological map tool GeoVIEW.WA from the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety.

Information on the SWI project can be found on the Western Australia State Government website (www.wa.gov.au).

Tags: Coastal, Seawater interface, Superficial aquifer, brackish groundwater, coastal aquifer, fresh groundwater, groundwater abstraction, groundwater investigations, groundwater priority areas, hypersaline groundwater, mixing zone, saline groundwater, salinisation, saltwater interface, saltwater intrusion, seawater interface monitoring, seawater intrusion, state groundwater investigation program, water table aquifer
Organization: Department of Water and Environmental Regulation
Bush Fire Prone Area Planning (OBRM-023)

The Bush Fire Prone Area Planning 2025 dataset (OBRM-023) identifies bush fire prone areas of Western Australia as designated by the Fire and Emergency Services (FES) Commissioner on 13 December 2025, with Planning Area 1 and Planning Area 2 attributed.

This dataset is equivalent to OBRM-024, the only difference being this dataset has an additional field named 'PlanningArea'.

Bush fire prone areas are subject to, or likely to be subject to, bush fire attack. A bush fire prone area is identified by the presence of and proximity to bush fire prone vegetation and includes both the area containing the bush fire prone vegetation and a 100 metre buffer zone immediately surrounding it.

More information is available from Office of Bushfire Risk Management (OBRM).

Contact: Office of Bushfire Risk Management, obrm@dfes.wa.gov.au

Tags: BPA, BPA2024, Bushfire Prone, New BPA 2024, OBRM, bpa 2024, bpa2024, bush fire, bush fire prone, bush fire prone area, bushfire prone area, dfes
Organization: Department of Fire and Emergency Services
Offsets Register - Offsets (DWER-078)

The Environmental Offsets Register lists all environmental offsets required under Part IV and Part V of the Environmental Protection Act since 1 July 2011. It provides spatial data on environmental offsets conditioned for the projects in Western Australia through the Environmental Protection Act 1986 approvals processes.

Tags: Clearing Permits, Offsets, Offsets Register
Organization: Department of Water and Environmental Regulation
WA Coastal Secondary Compartments (DOT-015)

Coastal compartments are structural features relating to geological features and landforms that can be used to provide a framework for planning and management of the coastline. The primary compartment boundaries for WA were determined by identifying major changes in rock type along the coast and changes in shoreline orientation, while incorporating complete landforms of coastal significance. The Primary compartments have been subdivided into secondary compartments based on landform associations. This dataset was commissioned by the Department of Planning and compiled by Damara Pty Ltd and the Geological Society of WA. A full report was also prepared to accompany the dataset, published August 2011. Some superficial changes have been made to the dataset since publication of the report in order to amalgamate the data into a nationwide compartment dataset developed by Geoscience Australia.

Tags: beachface, blowout, cell, change, coast, coastline, compartment, development, drift, dune, ecosystem, foreshore, littoral, management, marine, movements, ocean, planning, protection, sand, sea, secondary, sediment, shift, shoreline, water
Organization: Department of Transport
Wild Rivers (DWER-087)

Wild Rivers are rivers that are largely unchanged natural systems, where biological and hydrological processes continue without significant disturbance. They occur in a variety of landscapes, and may be permanent, seasonal or dry watercourses that flow or only flow occasionally, (Water and Rivers Commission, 1999). Wild Rivers are considered to be of high value because of their rarity, biodiversity or habitats, water quality and scientific value as benchmarks of natural catchment conditions. They remain generally undisturbed due to their isolation, rugged topography or land tenure.

Through a project with the Australian Heritage Commission, the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (then Water and Rivers Commission) originally identified 49 wild rivers catchments in Western Australia. New development and continuing pressures, such as grazing, tourism/recreation, and invasion by non-endemic species, have the potential to degrade wild rivers over time. Since initial identification, the Upper Yule River has been downgraded, due to development in the catchment. Western Australia currently has 48 wild rivers, of which 37 are located in the Kimberley and Pilbara regions. See Water Note 37: Wild rivers in Western Australia (https://www.wa.gov.au/system/files/2023-03/Water-note-37-Wild-rivers-in-Western-Australia.pdf). 

Wild river catchments classified as Priority 1 (P1) or Priority 2 (P2) are both considered to be of high value and are generally managed the same way, because there are nominal differences between the classifications. P1 wild rivers are those with no or minor impact from clearing, altering the landscape, loss of vegetation due to grazing, road or track construction, introduced exotic animals, plants or plant diseases, increased fire frequency, unnatural erosion and sedimentation or alterations to waterway and riparian ecosystem. P2 wild rivers are those with some but not extensive impacts from the activities or processes listed above. Since their initial identification, the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation has not undertaken a programme to monitor the condition of wild rivers catchments.

The Department of Water and Environmental Regulation advises that activities in wild rivers catchments should be managed so they do not adversely impact on values, including water quantity and quality. Conservation guidelines for the management of wild rivers: Part C - A Code for the Management of Wild Rivers (Australian Heritage Commission, 1998) provides management principles. 

Tags: ECOLOGY Habitat, HERITAGE Natural, LAND Geography, VEGETATION Natural, WATER Hydrology, WATER Quality, WATER Rivers, WATER Surface, WATER Wetlands, Water Catchment
Organization: Department of Water and Environmental Regulation
Seawater Interface Salinity Dist 10m Below Water Table: Esperance (DWER-135)

This dataset shows the distribution of fresh and saline water 10 m below the water table in the Superficial aquifer, in the Esperance groundwater area. Salinity categories are not defined further than 6,000 mg/L which has been used to represent the saltwater interface. 

This dataset is a derived location based on an assessment of data for the period November 2020 to November 2021. The 2016 Interpretation of TEMPEST Airbourne Electromagnetic Data from Esperance (Mira Geoscience) was also used in creating this dataset. This location can change pending known factors that impact the location of the seawater interface including the time of year, tidal movements, abstraction, recharge and throughflow.  

The full assessment of the SWI in this area is documented in report HR437 Esperance Seawater Interface Priority Area Assessment. 

This dataset is sourced from the Statewide Seawater Interface Project, funded by the Government of Western Australia under the State Groundwater Investigation Program. 

In the Esperance area, the project runs from April 2020 to March 2023 and the data are collected from: 
- Seawater interface monitoring (SWIM) bores installed or owned by the department
- Downhole natural gamma and induction logging
- Installation of data loggers and continuous static groundwater level (SWL) measurements from data loggers
- Electrical conductivity (EC) depth profiling
- Groundwater chemistry sampling.
- Airborne electromagnetic (AEM) survey.
The above data that is owned by the department can be downloaded from the Water Information Reporting (WIR) Portal or by contacting the Department. AEM survey data can be downloaded via the interactive geological map tool GeoVIEW.WA from the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety. 
Information on the SWI project can be found on the Western Australia State Government website (www.wa.gov.au).

Tags: Coastal, Seawater interface, Superficial aquifer, brackish groundwater, coastal aquifer, fresh groundwater, groundwater abstraction, groundwater investigations, groundwater priority areas, hypersaline groundwater, mixing zone, saline groundwater, salinisation, saltwater interface, saltwater intrusion, seawater interface monitoring, seawater intrusion, state groundwater investigation program, water table aquifer
Organization: Department of Water and Environmental Regulation
Heritage Council WA - State Register (DPLH-006)

The State Register of Heritage Places recognises a place's value and importance to Western Australia. It includes buildings, structures, gardens, cemeteries, landscapes and archaeological sites and has more than 1,300 places listed in it. The State Register is managed by the Heritage Council and provides a place with statutory protection to ensure that any proposed demolition, relocation, subdivision, amalgamation, alteration, addition or new development is in harmony with its cultural heritage values. The State Register continues to expand, as significant places yet to be registered are progressively assessed by the Council.

For more information contact the Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage on 
(08) 6551 8002 or see https://www.wa.gov.au/organisation/department-of-planning-lands-and-heritage.

Tags: cultural, heritage, people, places, public, register, society, state
Organization: Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage
Juvenile Period in Slow-Maturing Plants (2090 RCP 4.5) - SW of WA (DBCA-075)

By quantifying the length of time after fire for obligate-seeding plant species to become reproductively mature (the juvenile period), the risk of population decline under specific fire intervals can be delineated to inform local fire and conservation management. In this project, juvenile period data for serotinous obligate-seeder taxa across south-west Australia were collated from several studies. Linear models were then developed to estimate juvenile period based on measures of environmental productivity. These models were then spatially projected to the classic and drier Mediterranean agro-climatic class areas (Hutchinson et al. 2005) within south-west Australia.
JP – 2090 RCP 4.5 – Juvenile period as years until 50% of individuals in the population have 
flowered under future conditions (30-year period centred on 2090) with the RCP 4.5 emissions 
scenario based on a model featuring annual precipitation. (Fig 5 e) 
JP – 2× 2090 RCP 4.5 –Juvenile period as 2× years until 50% of individuals in the population have flowered under future conditions (30-year period centred on 2090) with the RCP 4.5 emissions scenario based on a model featuring annual precipitation. (Fig 5 e –2× legend) Please see full metadata in 'Resources' section below

Tags: Climate change, DBCA, Fire ecology, Juvenile period, Planf conservation, Serotinous obligate-seeder, Vegetation
Organization: Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
State Planning Policy 4.2 Activity centres for Perth and Peel (DPLH-064)

The main purpose of this policy is to specify broad planning requirements for the planning and development of new activity centres and the redevelopment and renewal of existing centres in Perth and Peel. It is mainly concerned with the distribution, function, broad land use and urban design criteria of activity centres, and with coordinating their land use and infrastructure planning.

Other purposes of the policy include:

the integration of activity centres with public transport
ensuring they contain a range of activities to promote community benefits through infrastructure efficiency and economic benefits of business clusters
lower transport energy use and associated carbon emissions.
The policy also reflects the Western Australian Planning Commission’s intention to encourage and consolidate residential and commercial development in activity centres so that they contribute to a balanced network.

Tags: activity centre, planning policy
Organization: Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage
State Planning Policy 5.4 Road and Rail Noise (Polygon) (DPLH-057)

This policy aims to promote a system in which sustainable land use and transport are mutually compatible.

The objectives of this policy are to:
protect people from unreasonable levels of transport noise by establishing a standardised set of criteria to be used in the assessment of proposals; 
protect major transport corridors and freight operations from incompatible urban encroachment; 
encourage best-practice design and construction standards for new development proposals and new or redeveloped transport infrastructure proposals; 
facilitate the development and operation of an efficient freight network; and 
facilitate the strategic co-location of freight handling facilities.

The purpose of the implementation guidelines is to assist users with the application and implementation of the Western Australian Planning Commission’s state planning policy 5.4.

It should be noted that the policy and these guidelines apply to proposals for new noise-sensitive developments, new railways or major roads, major redevelopments of existing railways or major roads, and new freight handling facilities. The policy and guidelines do not apply to noise from existing railways or major roads in the vicinity of an existing noise-sensitive land use, or an increase in traffic along an existing railway or major road in the absence of a major redevelopment.

It is expected that a review of the operation and effectiveness of the policy would be conducted within two years of the commencement of the policy.

Tags: Planning, Rail, Road, SPP, SPP 5.4, State Planning Policy
Organization: Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage
LiDAR Index External (DWER-045)

The LiDAR Index was created to illustrate the extents of LiDAR imagery and data currently Existing or In the Progress or Planned for the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation (DWER). Each area is delineated by a polygon with attributes denoting its general area coverage, status, file location, Contractor and availability of metadata.

Exists various datasets with varying degrees of accuracy, coverage and access. DWER custodial datasets can be purchased by external entities by contacting the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation.

Tags: DWER, Elevation, Imagery, LiDAR, Raster
Organization: Department of Water and Environmental Regulation
Albany Regional Land Supply Assessment (DPLH-026)

The Regional HotSpots series assesses land for future residential, industrial and commercial uses, providing context for the land use planning and infrastructure provision required to meet demand across selected regional centres.

Formally Albany Regional HotSpots Land Supply Assessment (DOP-084)

Tags: Albany, Harvested, Hotspots, Land Supply, Regional, SLIP Future
Organization: Department of Planning, Lands and Heritage
DBCA Terrestrial Lands Report

This report provides statistics on the extent (area in hectares) of DBCA-managed lands in each IBRA sub-region.  Proportion values are also provided.  The statistics are broken down into DBCA tenure categories with sub totals also provided.  Also included in the reporting, as of 2012, are statistics on some other IUCN lands not managed by DBCA.  These lands include DBCA and National Trust Conservation Covenants.  Maps are also available to graphically show the proportion of each IBRA sub-region protected for conservation. This report is updated annually.

<strong><em>Note: to access the data, select the data source link located on the right-hand side.</em></strong>

Tags: SP-2018-073, bioregion, conservation_covenant, dbca_tenure, ibra, statewide, statistics, sub_region
Organization: Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions
WA Coastal Primary Compartments (DOT-014)

Coastal compartments are structural features relating to geological features and landforms that can be used to provide a framework for planning and management of the coastline. The primary compartment boundaries for WA were determined by identifying major changes in rock type along the coast and changes in shoreline orientation, while incorporating complete landforms of coastal significance. The primary compartments have then been subdivided to produce secondary and tertiary compartments. This dataset was commissioned by the Department of Planning and compiled by Damara Pty Ltd and the Geological Society of WA. A full report was also prepared to accompany the dataset , published August 2011. Some superficial changes have been made to the dataset since publication of the report in order to amalgamate the data into a nationwide compartment dataset developed by Geoscience Australia.

Tags: beachface, blowout, cell, change, coast, coastline, compartment, development, drift, dune, ecosystem, foreshore, littoral, management, marine, movements, ocean, planning, primary, protection, sand, sea, sediment, shift, shoreline, water
Organization: Department of Transport
WRIMS - Surface Water Resources (DWER-081)

The Surface Water Resources (SWR) dataset was created to assist licensing and management of surface water in Western Australia. A surface water resource represents the smallest area to which water is managed. Surface water resources are the boundaries to which allocation limits are set.

The SWR dataset was derived from the Surfacewater Allocation Subareas (WRIMS) dataset and SDL catchments dataset, resource boundaries align with mapping shown in all draft and current Water Allocation Plans.

Tags: WATER, WATER Management, Water Allocation, Water Boundaries, Water Hydrology, Water Surface
Organization: Department of Water and Environmental Regulation
Statewide River Water Quality Assessment (DWER-038)

Statewide River Water Quality Assessment (SRWQA) 2004 &amp; 2008 uses water quality data collected as far back as 1998 to determine the status and trends of nine water quality parameters for all waterways in the state, where consistent data is available.

The project was undertaken by the Water Science Branch of the Department of Water and Environmental Regulation in 1999 and 2004 has now been updated to include water quality information up to the end of 2007. This dataset only shows the classifications and trends from the 2004 and 2008 assessment. 

The Assessment focused on colour, dissolved organic carbon, dissolved oxygen, pH, total nitrogen, total phosphorus, total dissolved salts, total suspended solids and turbidity. A total of 255 sites from 23 basins in Western Australia (out of a total of 44) were included in the 2008 update with 126 of these being assessed for the first time in 2008. In 2004 232 sites were assessed. Due to a lack of data numerous sites that were assessed in 2004 are not included in the 2008 update. Many basins had no data, whilst the others lacked recent monitoring data. The status and trend results were compiled into an excel spreadsheet.

Dataset was formerly known as Statewide River Water Quality Assessment (DOW-056)

Tags: Rivers, Surface water monitoring, Water Quality, Water Surface
Organization: Department of Water and Environmental Regulation