AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Vicmap Property - Parcel Polygon with Parcel Detail

Parcel Map Polygons is a polygon layer belonging to Vicmap Property Simplified, a modified and simplified model of Vicmap Property. It consists of polygons representing Victoria's land parcels.
This layer should be used in conjuction with the other layers and aspatial tables that make up Vicmap Property Simplified see metadata for Vicmap Property and Vicmap Property Simplified.

Vicmap Property Simplified Content includes
 · Parcel and Property Polygons;
 · 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 Simplified 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)
Centroid - Vicmap Property (CENTROID)
Aspatial Table - Parcel Property Table - Vicmap Property (PARCEL_PROPERTY)
Parcel Map Polygons - Vicmap Property (PARCEL_MP)
Property Map Polygons - Vicmap Property (PROPERTY_MP)
Road Centre Line Chain - Vicmap Property (ROAD_CL_CHAIN)

Tags: Boundaries, Environment, Planning cadastre
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Landform component mapping of north west Victoria

A polygonal dataset of mapped landforms in the Victorian Mallee.

The dataset was created from the disaggregation of land systems originally defined by Rowan and Downes (1963). The disaggregation primarily involved an analysis of a 10 metre grid Digital Elevation Model (DEM) provided by the Department of Sustainability and Environment. The analysis included the use of the UPNESS index from the Fuzzy Landscape Analysis GIS (FLAG) model, Multi-resolution Valley Bottom Flatness (MrVBF) index, DEM derivative surfaces (such as slope, curvature, aspect and relative elevation) in combination with expert opinion, field observations and other supplementary datasets (such as aerial imagery, radiometrics, vegetation and GMU).

The dataset was created in a staged approach through 4 project phases. The project was sponsored by the Mallee Catchment Management Authority with funding from the Federal government's Caring for our Country initiative.

The final project report, "Disaggregation of landform components within land systems of the Mallee", 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.

The landform component mapping was supplemented and refined during a "Wind erosion susceptibility mapping" project conducted in 2011. Details of changes are included in the associated project report (refer to that metadata record).

Tags: Farming, Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Land units of Glenelg Hopkins region of Victoria

This dataset is the primary data output from the Glenelg Hopkins land resource assessment project undertaken in 1999-2001. It contains soil and land information at a scale of 1:100 000 for all land in the south western corner of Victoria. The study also includes generic soil erosion risk assessments and agricultural capability, although these are mapped in separate datasets.

At the map scale of this dataset soil-landform units are not homogeneous. For each defined soil-landform unit, the number and proportion of landforms and soil types will vary. A dominant soil type has been identified within each unit and soil property attributes provided by 'representative' sites.

Importantly it should be noted that soil attributes (for example texture, sodicity, pH) are expected to vary between acquired soil sites. As the variability of soil attributes within a map unit is difficult to predict, it is important to note that representative soils should be used as a guide only.

The study report describing the project methodology and dataset attributes is available from the Victorian Resources Online website (http://vro.depi.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/glenregn.nsf/pages/glenelg_soil_map).

DOI 10.4226/92/58e717be5073e

Tags: Farming, Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Restricted and Unavailable Crown Land for Petroleum Operations

Land where special permission must be obtained for Petroleum Opertaions

This layer was developed for land classification for the 
Petroleum Act 1998

This layer is derived mostly from selections from Public Land Management PLM25. Other sources of data include PLM100_V_MMT_WILDLIFE_MGMT for wildlife reserves, PLM100_V_MMT_HERITAGE_RIVER for heritage rivers, PLM100_V_MMT_NATRL_CATCHMENT for natural catchemnt area , PLM100_V_MMT_REFERENCE_AREAS for reference areas, PLM100_V_MMT_WILDERNESS_ZONE for wilderness zones and VEACREC25_POLYGON for water authority land.

The dataset PLM25_PA is an amalgamation of features defined by:
Petroleum Act 1998- SECT 137
Petroleum Act 1998- SECT 139
Petroleum Act 1998- SECT 140 and 
National Parks Act 1975 SECT 40 Part (2)

The GeoVic3 layers:
Wilderness and Reference (PA s.137)
Restricted Crown Land (PA s.139)
Water Authority Land (PA s.140) and
National and State Parks (NPA s. 40(2))

are subsets from the layer PLM25_PA

PLM25_PA has captured the following features:
regional parks
coastal parks, including Gippsland Lakes Reserve
marine parks
wildlife reserves including Wildlife Management Co-operative Areas
wildlife reserves including Wildlife Management Co-operative Areas
natural features and scenic reserves including caves and geological reserves
bushland reserves
historic areas and reserves
public land water frontage reserves
streamside reserves including River Murray Reserve
coastal reserves
national heritage parks
nature conservation reserves
historic and cultural features reserves
alpine resorts
heritage rivers
natural catchment areas
crown land reserves - natural feature reserves
crown land reserves - nature conservation reserves
crown land reserves - forest parks
reference areas
national parks
wilderness areas
state parks
wilderness zones
water authority land

Tags: Boundaries, Economy, Utilities communication
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Victorian Aquifer Framework (VAF) Salinity Distribution - UMTA_TDS

This dataset is the Victorian Aquifer Framework (VAF) Salinity Distribution. It refers to the salinity distribution for Aquifer Number of 107 (Upper Mid-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
Vicmap Lite - Forest Polygon

This layer is part of Vicmap Lite and contains polygon features delineating forested areas. The polygons were sourced from TREE100. 

This version of the vmlite_forest dataset was created by merging the previous layers vmlite_forest_su2, vmlite_forest_su3 and vmlite_forest_su5.

The concept of a Scale Use Code has been introduced to help control the level of detail displayed.
Attribute scale_use_code values of 1 are suitable for display 1:1 million - 1 : 5 million scale range.
Attribute scale_use_code values of 3&amp;4 are suitable for display 1: 250,000 - 1 : 2 million scale range.

The level of attribute information, the number of features and the number of vertices has been simplified to suit the 1: 250,000 - 1 : 2 million scale range.

Tags: Biota, Environment
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Boundary of Fire Severity Classes (FIRE_SEV03) 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 the boundary of Landsat TM7 based fire severity mapping for this fire (FIRE_SEV03). This layer does not necessarily co-incide completely with the actual fire boundary which is held as fire number 39 in the fire100_2003 fire history dataset.

Tags: Biota, Environment
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Blue Carbon Restoration Actions

Management scenarios, including fencing, levee removal, and managed retreat, to identify potential areas available for restoration at a large scale. This data only considers the restoration of mangroves and saltmarshes. The data was modelled and classified by Deakin University's Blue Carbon Lab (Costa et al. 2022) based upon existing data on fencing, levee locations, pre-European distribution of mangroves and saltmarshes (Boon et al. 2011), as well as land use (e.g. pasture/grazing lands), and inundated extent from predicted sea level rise and storm surge. The approach does not replace hydrodynamic modelling and site-specific analysis needed before undertaking a blue carbon project.
References:
Costa, M.D.P, Wartman, M., Macreadie, P.I., Ierodiaconou, D., Morris, R., Nicholson, E., Pomeroy, A., Young, M., Carnell, P. (2022). Mapping the benefits and costs of management actions for coastal wetlands in Victoria. Report submitted to the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning. Deakin University, Australia. 55pp.

Mazor, T., Watermeyer, K., MacDonald, K., Holden, R., Grinter, V., Hobley, T., Ferns, L. (2023) Mapping Victoria’s Blue Carbon, The State of Victoria, Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA).

Tags: Environment, Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Urban Development Program - Major Residential Redevelopments Sites 2020

The Urban Development Program (UDP) monitors and reports on major residential redevelopment projects across metropolitan Melbourne. Major redevelopment projects are those comprising ten or more dwellings. Data is collected from commercial data sources and through analysis of aerial imagery, and is verified through consultations with local council representatives.
These include projects which may have an existing planning permit, or are in the planning processes, those that are current under construction, as well as potential longer term projects on sites that local councils have identified for residential purposes.
A timing classification is attributed to each project based on commercial data sources, consultation with local councils, and the stage the project has reached in the planning process. The Urban Development Program reports on major redevelopment projects using the following categories:
¿   Completed (a project was completed from Jan 2017 to Jan 2019)
¿   Under Construction (a project was under construction at Jan 2019)
¿   Firm (Recent planning approval, project with pre-sales)
¿   Likely (In planning assessment, planning permit extension may be required to develop)
¿   Possible (Long term redevelopment site, permit lapsed ).

While the UDP acknowledges a proportion of proposed projects may be abandoned or delayed, the classification process provides an indicator of available supply provided there is sufficient demand. In addition, it is acknowledged there are also sites within the established parts of Melbourne that may be suitable for residential development into the future but have not yet been identified. The UDP will continue to report on these sites as they are identified for redevelopment for residential purposes.
It should also be noted that the timings attached to these projects are indicative. Construction rates can be cyclical in nature, and highly dependent on underlying demand and pre-sales, economic cycles and industry capacity. This can mean that stated development intentions will vary from on the-ground construction activity over time and by location.

Tags: Structure
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
2016 Bellarine Peninsula 1% AEP Coastal Inundation Static Model with 1.40m Sea Level Rise

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.

Static (bathtub) inundation modelling was carried out to create this data layer for 1% Annual Exceedance Probability (AEP) coastal inundation under the assumption of 1.4m Sea Level Rise in 2016, for the following study areas along the coast of the Bellarine Peninsula and Greater Geelong area: Avalon; Breamlea; Connewarre Lake; Geelong Waterfront; Indented Head; Limeburners Lagoon; Newcomb; North Geelong; Portarlington; Queenscliff; Salt Lake; Sands Caravan Park; St Leonards; and Swan Bay.
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.
Units are in mAHD

Tags:  atmosphere,  meteorology, Climatology, Environment, Geoscientific information, Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
INVERLOCH_CHA_EROSION_02_2021

The Inverloch Region Coastal Hazard Assessment is a modelled dataset assessing sea level rises, planning horizons and storm events to determine erosion hazard zones in the study area.
The sea level rise components and subsequent planning horizons consisted of 0m (2020), 0.2m (2040), 0.5m (2070) and 0.8m (2100). The design storm events modelled were 1%,5% and 10% AEP (annual exceedance probability). The study reports can be obtained by contacting vcmp@delwp.vic.gov.au. - some generalisation for publishing in CoastKit.

Tags: Environment, Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Baseflow Separation Analysis for Unregulated Rivers (1889 to 2012)

Baseflow separation analysis was undertaken for 180 stream gauges on unregulated rivers in Victoria. This included the 178 gauges assessed in previous DEPI and MDBA assessments. The baseflow separation analysis was undertaken on historical river flow records up to 2012 and utilised a filter parameter of 0.98.

Tags: Geoscientific information, Inland waters
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
2010 Index of Stream Condition - Water Bodies Reach Summary Table

The ISC2010_WATER_BODIES_R table is the Statistical Summary table for the Water Bodies Metric at the Reach level.

The ISC2010_WATER_BODIES_R table is designed to JOIN to the ISC2010_RIVER_CENTRELINES_R 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
Private Native Forest Stand Vegetation

As a part of a Victorian State Government initiative for Private Forest mapping was established to collect, collate and store forest resource information.

The PNF100 layer depicts forest stands interpreted visually from aerial photgraphs and image based mapping. A stand is an area of forest deemed to be homogenous in its species composition, crown cover, crown form, height and distribution for "modified code mapping".

Tags: Biota, Farming
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Aggregated Fire Severity Classes from 1998 onward

This dataset presents aggregated historic fire severity classification from 1998 onward for wildfires. It currently has all of the fire sev classification done from FIRE_SEV98 to FIRE_SEV09 as well as Grampians victoria valley complex 2013 and Grampians northern complex 2014 (additional years of severity mapping will be added to this dataset as they become available). Datasets has been reclassified using the Level 2 Classification described in the Post fire Burn Classification Procedure SOP v.1.0 (FEMD, 2014). 
Severities for fires after 2014 have been added as fire severity mapping occurs. There severities most often use Level 3 Classification.
Aggregating the old (more detailed) historic severity classes into the current broad level 2 classes is a more conservative approach than aggregating them into the current level 3 classes. . The reason for this approach is that the percentages for the degree of crown scorch do not line-up closely enough to directly transfer the old classes into the new level 3 classes. In all of the classification work documented above, canopy burn remains the highest severity level, canopy scorch is divided up in the levels below this depending on a description or percentage range.
In this coverage the most resent (last burnt) severity mapping is displayed, however, where an area has had previous fire events they can be mapped out (interrogated) by using definition query or attribute query or other GIS techniques. 
Severity classification of non-forest areas: 
In 2003 (Alpine fire), 2005 (Wilson's Promontory Fire), 2006 (Grampians Ballarat and Moondarra fires), 2007 (Little Desert and Boulder Creek fires) 2009 (Kilmore - Murindindi fires) polygons have been reclassified to the following classes:

Burnt = High Severity
Scorched and Burnt = High Severity
Partially Burnt = Medium Severity 
Scorched and Unburnt = Low Severity
Unburnt = Unburnt
Unclassified = Unclassified

Tags: Biota, Environment
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Lite - State Line

This layer is part of Vicmap Lite and contains lines representing the coast and the state border. The linework was sourced from vmindex.fr_framework_area_line. The level of attribute information, the number of features and the number of vertices has been simplified.

This version of the vmlite_victoria_line dataset was created by merging the previous layers vmlite_victoria_line_su2 and vmlite_victoria_line_su5.

The concept of a Scale Use Code has been introduced to help control the level of detail displayed.
Attribute scale_use_code values of 1 are suitable for display 1:2 million - 1:5 million scale range.
Attribute scale_use_code values of 3,4&amp;5 are suitable for display 1:250,000 - 1:2 million scale range.

THIS DATASET WAS LAST UPDATED IN MAY 2014

Tags: Boundaries
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Port Phillip Bay seagrass mapping at nine aerial assessment regions in April 2011

This polygon layer represents seagrass habitat at nine regions in Port Phillip Bay in April 2011 mapped from aerial photography. The mapping was undertaken for the Baywide Seagrass Monitoring Program (CDP_ENV_MD_022 Rev5 - Port of Melbourne Corporation, 2010). The program is being undertaken for the Port of Melbourne Corporation as part of Baywide Monitoring to support the Channel Deepening Project.

Tags: Biota, Farming, Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Deepest Sediment Trendline, Goulburn Murray Area

This dataset consists of deepest sediment trendlines interpreted from bore-controlled residual gravity bedrock depth for the Goulburn-Murray area.

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
Urban Development Program - Greenfield Residential Land 2020

Identifies undeveloped land for residential development generally on the fringe of the metropolitan area. Each record in the database details the subdivision and planning status of the land, the area of the site in hectares and the potential lot yield. Other details are also records against each site .

This information maps land areas for both the supply and recent subdivision
-Unzoned englobo land requiring a PSP
-Zoned englobo land
-Proposed lots
-Lots with a title

Urban Development Program (UDP).

Tags: Structure
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
INVERLOCH_CHA_00SLR_2021_SIMP

The Inverloch Region Coastal Hazard Assessment is a modelled dataset assessing sea level rises, planning horizons and storm events to determine erosion hazard zones in the study area.
The sea level rise components and subsequent planning horizons consisted of 0m (2020), 0.2m (2040), 0.5m (2070), 0.8m (2100). The design storm events modelled were 1%,5% and 10% AEP (annual exceedance probability). The study reports can be obtained by contacting vcmp@delwp.vic.gov.au. - some generalisation for publishing in CoastKit.

Tags: Environment, Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Index Vic StateView 2023/24 1.5m Orthorectified Strips

Part of Vicmap Index product, this dataset comprises footprints delineating orthorectified strips used in mosaicking Vic StateView 2023/24 1.5m. Each footprint represents the spatial extent of a strip, housing essential metadata such as raw strips ID and extent. Positioned as a comprehensive metadata layer, this product is designed to enhance the utility of Vic StateView 2023/24 1.5m, offering crucial information for data interpretation and utilisation.

Tags: Boundaries, Environment
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Groundwater-Surface Water Interaction

The Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric Surface Hydrology Catchments dataset was used as the base layer for considering surface water as an asset. This dataset provided mapped major rivers for Victoria.

Numerous investigations into the interaction between groundwater and surface water have occurred across Victoria. Where this information was available in a format suitable for use in a GIS, it was collated to inform a state wide dataset of groundwater and surface water interaction. The resulting product attributes the stream base layer (described above) with the following classification of groundwater and surface water interaction:

Gaining
Variable
Neutral/Losing
Unclassified

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