AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Forest Management Boundaries

Polygons delineating Forest Management Blocks. The layer also contains aggregations of forest management blocks representing other administrative boundaries such as Forest Districts, Work Centres, Forest Management Areas (FMAs), VicForests Adiminstrative areas and an approximation to RFAs based on blocks. This is implemented via the use of Arc/Info region attribute tables.

Tags: Boundaries, Society
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Victorian winterfill sustainable diversion limits

Winterfill sustainable diversion limit volumes (SDLs) have been developed across Victoria and represent the upper limit on winterfill diversions, beyond which there is an unacceptable risk that additional extractions may degrade the environment. Combined with the volume of current extractions the SDL provides water managers with a volume of available water in catchments across Victoria. This dataset includes the 1611 intermediate catchments that cover the state. Data associated with each intermediate catchment is held in the SDL_DATA layer.

Tags: Inland waters
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Contact Metamorphism Zones (1:250,000)

This dataset displays areas of contact and regional metamorphism, and the style of metamorphism

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

Tags: Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Coastal Acid Sulphate Soils

Spatial data representing Victorian coastal lands which have the potential to contain coastal acid sulfate soil (CASS), i.e. it is prospective for CASS. This spatial data is used for triggering an investigation of a site where proposed activities risk disturbing CASS. Disturbing CASS is defined as causing oxygen to penetrate earth material that contains metal oxides either in sulfidic material or sulfuric material. Sulfidic material is soil or sediment that contains metal sulfides which oxidise to sulfuric acid in the presence of oxygen. Sulfuric material has either partially or completely oxidised metal oxides. This data was created to help avoid disturbing potential CASS.

An explanation of Coastal Acid Sulphate Soils and their mapping is available on Victorian Resources Online: http://vro.depi.vic.gov.au/dpi/vro/vrosite.nsf/pages/soil_acid_sulfate_soils

DOI 10.4226/92/58e723a645d1f

Tags: Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Index of Estuarine Condition Scores

The IEC is made up of five subindices - Physical Form, Hydrology, Water Quality, Flora, and Fish. The overall score for each estuary is based on individual scores for the five sub-indices. Sub-indices are made up of one or more measures that, in turn, are underpinned by one or more metrics that provide information on threats or condition (DELWP 2021). Assigning each IEC metric to represent measures of either threat or condition aids interpretation of results and conceptual understanding of observed estuary condition to guide management options.

Tags: Inland waters, Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Admin - Ward Polygon 2012

Part of the Vicmap Admin dataset series. This dataset contains WARD Boundaries (WARDS) for all LGA's within Victoria. WARDS are defined by Local Government Victoria, within the Department of Transport Planning &amp; Local Infrastructure (DTPLI) and maintained by the Victorian Electoral Comission. 

NOTE: This dataset was superceded by WARD_2016 in October 2016, and was withdrawn in February 2017 from the Vicmap Admin product.

Tags: Boundaries, Environment, Planning cadastre
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Vicmap Land Administration Themes - Parish Polygon

Part of the Vicmap VLAt dataset series. This layer contains polygon features delineating parish boundaries as defined by CLM, Dept. of Sustainability &amp; Environment.

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

Tags: Boundaries, Environment, Planning cadastre
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Native Vegetation Regulation (2017) Habitat Importance Maps (HIM) for VROTs species

This replaces SPECIES_HABITAT_V4_HPNV, which had replaced V4_HDNV and V4_HINV. This data series is a set of spatial maps describing importance of suitable habitat within the current extent of native vegetation for some species. These species are rare or threatened and their habitat is described as either dispersed or highly localised (ie remaining habitat within Native Vegetation is either greater than or less than 2000 ha respectively based on IUCN categorisation). These models have been developed for use in the native vegetation removal regulations. Thresholds have been applied to the maps because lower likelihood areas do not receive species-specific consideration in the assessment process. Habitat importance is ranked for dispersed species; for highly localised habitats it is equal across the map. The values stored in these data are used to calculate habitat value and offsets under the native vegetation removal regulations (2017).

Note that for dispersed species the values stored in these data must be divided by 100 to calculate the habitat importance score.

Dataset Series Naming:
NVR2017_HIM[taxa_id]_vg94.tif
    where 
    taxa_id is based on VBA taxon_id
 vg94 is the projection vicgrid94.

Tags: Biota
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Victorian Coastal Inundation Sea Level Rise Storm Tide 2100

The Victorian Coastal Inundation Dataset (the product) is a digital dataset consisting of eight spatial layers modelling the extent of land subject to coastal inundation due to projected sea level rise and storm tide from 2009 to 2100.
This product is recommended for use at a scale of approximately 1:75,000 or less detail to reflect the limitations in the modelling and the recommended catchment to regional scale of inundation assessments with this product. The product is NOT suitable for assessments of potential risks at property level.

The datasets available are:
Sea Level Rise:
- SLR00CM_2009 - Current (2009) sea level 
- SLR20CM_2040 - Projected 20cm sea level rise by 2040 
- SLR47CM_2070 - Projected 47cm sea level rise by 2070 
- SLR82CM_2100 - Projected 82cm sea level rise by 2100 

Storm tide (1-in-100 year) with added wind forcing plus sea level rise
- SLR00CM_ST_2009 - Current (2009) inundation to 1-in-100 year storm tide level 
- SLR20CM_ST_2040 - Inundation to 1-in-100 year storm tide level with storm surge increased by 6% plus 20 cm sea level rise 
- SLR47CM_ST_2070 - Inundation to 1-in-100 year storm tide level with storm surge increased by 13% plus 47 cm sea level rise 
- SLR82CM_ST_2100 - Inundation to 1-in-100 year storm tide level with storm surge increased by 19% plus 82 cm sea level rise

Interactive Map:- Hydra site decommissioned on 25/10/2022 as requested by the site owner.
http://mapshare.maps.vic.gov.au/gvh270hydra/
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This data has been computed to support the Victorian Governments Future Coasts Project.

Tags:  atmosphere,  meteorology, Climatology
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Admin - Ward Polygon 2020

Part of the Vicmap Admin dataset series. This dataset contains WARD Boundaries (WARDS) for all LGA's within Victoria, used for local government elections. The WARD_2020 data set of Victorian local government ward boundaries was created by the Victorian Electoral Commission on behalf of Local Government Victoria as part of the Electoral Representation Review process (www.vec.vic.gov.au/repreviews).

Tags: Boundaries, Environment, Planning cadastre
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Lineaments interpreted from Topography

This dataset comprises lineaments interpreted from the State's 100m x 100m resolution Digital Terrain Model (DTM). The interpretation has been completed on a regional or sub-regional scale using geophysical remote sensing techniques and has confirmed that topography is a key structural analysis dataset. This is because it frequently shows strong evidence of the recent reactivation of older fault structures.

The analysis identified a number of key topography lineament directions across the state:

ENE-WSW: the dominant set of long and persistent linear features;
WNW-ESE: the next most obvious interpreted topographic lineament dataset;
N-S to NNE-SSW: trends mostly associated with known terrane boundaries.

Generally, only lineaments which have not been published in existing datasets developed by the former Department of Primary Industries (DPI) have been identified in this study. 

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
Victorian Soil Electrical Conductivity mapping (VicDSMv1)

This dataset comprises soil property mapping across the whole State of Victoria at 6 prescribed depths. The set depths are 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. The mapped soil properties are pH (1:5 water), EC (dS/m), % clay and soil organic carbon (SOC %). 

The dataset has been created by the Understanding Soil and Farming Systems project (CMI 102922)and is referred to as Version 1.0 of the Victorian Digital Soil Map (VIC DSM 1.0). 

Soil point data stored in the Victorian Soil Information System (VSIS) from over 6,000 sites has been standardised to the set depths (using equal area splines or a value weighting derived from the proportional contruibution of each sample to the depth class). This processed data was used to attribute soil land units from a collection of surveys (mapped at 1:100k or better) collated to provide the best map unit coverage across the State. Only data from sites that match the soil type of the dominant soil within the land unit being attributed were used. Sites and land units were assigned an Australian Soil Classification (to the Suborder level) to aid this process.

The raw profile data stored in the VSIS (as of March 2013) used to produce these maps were:
pH data were either laboratory based (1:5 soil/water suspension) or field pH (Raupach and Tucker 1959).
Clay % was laboratory derived particle size data (PSA all methods), or converted field observations of texture class (McKenzie et al. 2000).
Organic Carbon measurements methods was either Walkley and Black or Heanes wet oxidation.
Electical Conductivity was 1:5 soil/water extract (dS/m).

The data is available in polygonal format (i.e. the land units) with soil property median value, standard deviation and assignment qualifier attributes. ESRI grids in ascii format at 100 m cell resolution have been generated from the attributed land unit polygon dataset for each soil property at each depth interval.

The assignment qualifiers have been created in order to provide a level of quality evaluation for the soil property assignment to each polygon. Reliability maps generated from these qualifiers have been produced together with each soil property map.

The strength of these products is our ability to leverage on the significant investment in soil site and survey mapping data procurement and the capture of tacit knowledge of former soil surveyors.

A revised version of these digital soil maps is due to be released at the end of 2014.

Tags: Farming, Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Fire History Records of Fires across Victoria showing the fire scars

This layer represents the spatial extent of fires recorded since 1903 primarily on public land. The layer includes bushfires and DELWP planned burn information. This dataset only shows the fire scars (boundaries) - to allow a simplified view of fire history.
CFA data on fires occurring on private land has also been included since 2009.

This data set was updated in August 2025 and is current for the 24/25 fire season.

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). 
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: Environment
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Land Administration Themes - Property and Cadastral Area Boundary Join Table

Property Cadastral Area Boundary is an aspatial table that identifies the CAD_AREA_BDY lines associated wtith a PROPERTY_POLYGON. VLAT consists of data representing Victoria's land parcels and properties.

This dataset s a raw superset of VMPROP_PROPERTY_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
Coastal Protection Structures Line

A dataset depicting coastal protective structures captured by the Department of Primary Industries for the Future Coasts Program in 2011 using aerial photography available in the DSE image repository, known as the Coordination Image Program (CIP). This dataset was further reviewed as part of the Future Coasts SECAP project (2011/2012). Information on the condition of a number of protection structures is available as a separate (restricted) database that links to this spatial dataset.

The data was reviewed in 2017, adding asset IDs to enable linking to asset management data.

Tags: Environment, Geoscientific information, Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
East Gippsland Marine Habitats November 2009

This polygon layer represents marine habitat in the East Gippsland region mapped from satellite imagery and aerial photography with underwater video ground-truthing. The mapping was funded by Natural Heritage Trust to increase the capacity of natural resource managers to make informed decisions regarding asset identification, risk assessment, and management action targets for nearshore marine habitats in the region.

Tags: Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Victorian Aquifer Framework (VAF) Salinity Distribution - LMTA_TDS

This dataset is the Victorian Aquifer Framework (VAF) Salinity Distribution. It refers to the salinity distribution for Aquifer Number of 109 (Lower 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
Interpreted Lava Flows (1:500,000), Geological Interpretation of Geophysical Features Polygon

This dataset contains Lava flows that have been interpreted either from intersections in drill holes or from magnetic responses.

The dataset is accompanied by other datasets representing geological boundaries, major faults, lesser faults, dykes and the basin edges.

References:

MOORE, D.H., 2002. Eastern and central Gippsland Basin, southeast Australia: basement interpretation and basin links. Victorian Initiative for Minerals and Petroleum Report 69, Department of Natural Resources and Environment. 

MOORE, D.H., 2002. Basement-basin relationships in the Otway Basin, Victoria, Australia. Victorian Initiative for Minerals and Petroleum Report 78, Department of Natural Resources and Environment.

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

Tags: Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
2010 Index of Stream Condition - Water Body polygon features

The ISC2010_WATER_BODIES polygon features represent the areas of the stream bed that contained water at the time of the survey. Water body features less than 5m2 have been removed so that data volume is manageable.

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

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

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

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

Tags: Elevation, Imagery base maps earth cover, Inland waters, Transportation
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Property - Easement Proposed Polygon

Proposed easements represented as lines in a layer belonging to Vicmap Property Simplified 2 product.
Only a subset of easements have been captured.

This layer should be used in conjuction with the other layers and aspatial tables that make up Vicmap Property and replaces the CAD_LINE layer.

Tags: Boundaries, Environment, Planning cadastre
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Geological units represented as two dimensional polygons (1:50,000)

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

Tags: Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Admin - State Council Polygon 2013

Statewide data showing Upper House boundaries and names. These are the Legislative Council Electoral boundaries referred to as the Upper House Boundaries. 

These boundaries are the result of the 2012-2013 State Redivision conducted under requirements of the Electoral Boundaries Commission Act 1982. These boundaries will apply at the Victorian State Election in 2014.

Tags: Boundaries
Organization: Victorian Electoral Commission
INVERLOCH_CHA_EROSION_00_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
2016 Bellarine Peninsula 1% AEP Coastal Inundation Dynamic Model with 1.4m 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.

Dynamic inundation modelling was carried out to create this data layer for 1% Annual Exceedance Probability (AEP) coastal inundation under the assumption of 1.4 m Sea Level Rise in 2016, 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