AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Soil Grids of Victorian Total Organic Carbon %

A set of Digital Soil Maps (mean, 5th and 95th percentile prediction values) of total organic carbon % 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. In the case of Total Organic Carbon % mapping, prediction maps from only the first three depths have been published due to poor model validation for the lower three depths. This is in part due to the shoartage of calibration data available for modelling at these depths.

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
Seismic 3D Survey Areas - for Petroleum Industry Exploration

The polygons depict the outline of 3D surveys. These outlines illustrate the survey outlines but are not consistently defined. The polygons have been extracted from survey reports but may illustrate surface coverage, full fold coverage or even the final grid definitions. Care should be exercised when using these polygons for anything other than an indication of survey extent.

Tags: Geoscientific information, Utilities communication
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Land Administration Themes - Cadastral Area Boundary Line

Cadastral Area Boundary is a line layer belonging to VLAT and consists of data representing Victoria's land parcels and properties and is used extensively in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) by the public and private sectors.

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

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

Tags: Boundaries, Environment, Planning cadastre
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Vicmap Transport - Road and Paper Road Line

This layer is a superset of the Vicmap TR_ROAD dataset; the latter dataset that is part of Vicmap Transport.

It is an extensive digital road network - line features delineating state wide road network.

In addtion to all features contained in TR_ROAD; bridges, connectors, footbridges, foot tracks, roads, roundabouts &amp; tunnels, it also includes paper roads to provide a complete road name register.

Paper roads (feature_type_code 'paper_road') exist only on paper, such as a plan of subdivision, and are unlikely to be ever built due to planning restrictions. However, some councils hold addresses and property information against these paper roads. Currently it is not possible to differentiate between addresses who have an incorrect road name and paper road names.

Attribution includes names, alias names, feature_type, class, direction, locality, unique feature identification, suburb/locality.

See documentation for Vicmap TR_ROAD for most information about this dataset.

Tags: Structure, Transportation
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Extent of the Western Grassland Reserves

As part of Melbourne's Strategic Assessment agreement under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, the Victorian Government has committed to establishing the WGR by way of acquisition of land for transfer to the Crown. A public aquistion overlay was applied to approximately 15,000 hectares of land under the Wyndham, Melton, Greater Geelong and Morrabool planning schemes in August 2010 (Planning Scheme Amendment VC68).

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

Vicmap Property consists of data representing Victoria's land parcels and properties and is used extensively in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) by the public and private sectors. 

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

Tags: Boundaries, Environment, Planning cadastre
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Ramsar Wetland Areas in Victoria at 1:25 000

Polygons defining Ramsar wetland areas in Victoria. The Ramsar Convention of Wetlands of International Importance, to which Australia is a signatory, requires contracting parties to designate wetlands of international significance within their territory for listing under the convention.

This layer is based on RAMSAR100 but has been realigned and updated to improve its accuracy. It has been updated to match current VICMAP parcel, road, hydro and water area data as well as using high-resolution digital aerial photography to improve its precision to 1:25 000.

Tags: Biota, Boundaries, Inland waters
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Geophysical Miscellaneous lines (1:250,000), Geophysical Interpretation of other linear geological features

This dataset displays miscellaneous geological line data not covered by the other geophysical datasets.

At scales larger than 1:120,000 the display is a combination of both 1:100,000 and 1:250,000 geophysical mapping. Recent 1:250,000 geophysical mapping has been of such quality and detail it has been used to supersede older coincident 1:100,000 mapping. This occurs in the following areas: St Arnaud 7524, Dunolly 7624, Charlton 7525, Wedderburn 7625 and part of Ararat 7423 are superseded by St Arnaud SJ54-4. Bendigo 7724, Heathcote 7824 and Nagambie 7924 are superseded by Bendigo SJ55-1. 

Balmoral 7223, Ararat 7423, Horsham SJ54-3 and St Arnaud SJ54-4 supersede Grampians 7323 where there is overlap.

The Ouyen SI54-15 and Horsham SJ54-3 map areas are datasets derived from a combination of Geological Interpretation of Basement Geophysical Features maps and Geological Interpretation of Post-Cratonic Geophysical Features maps performed by Moore, D. H.

This data has been collected by the Geological Survey of Victoria. This dataset is accompanied by other datasets representing geological polygons and boundaries, sub-surface geological polygons, structural lines and metamorphism.

Tags: Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
VAF_EXTENT_100QA

This dataset relates to the Victorian Aquifer Framework (VAF) 3D Surface for the Quaternary Aquifer. It represents the mapped extent of the aquifer.

Please refer to the master metadata record VAF 'Victorian Aquifer Framework (VAF) 3D Surfaces' for detailed information.

Tags: Geoscientific information, Inland waters
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Stock layer for calendar year 2016

This layer provides an annual view of residential dwellings for Metropolitan Melbourne defined by the 31 local government areas. Dwelling information is assigned to polygons representing Victoria's land parcels for the particular year. Key fields include: Number of residential dwellings on a parcel; parcel size, whether a parcel is vacant, whether construction activity is present, and the street address. Polygon information is sourced from the Parcel View - Vicmap Property dataset (VMPROP_PARCEL_VIEW).

Tags: Planning cadastre, Structure
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Broadhectare Residential Land 2018

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
landcare network boundaries

Landcare boundaries as a statewide coverage. This layer will be changing over time depending on new networks and amalgamations. .

This is the 2015 update

The boundaries were created using the best available information
They may overlap and are an approximate area of interest only.
Please contact your Regional Landcare Co-ordinator to update or add your group boundary:
Corangamite (03) 5232 9100
East Gippsland (03) 5152 0600
Glenelg Hopkins (03) 5771 2526
Goulburn Broken (03) 5736 0100
Mallee (03) 5051 4377
North Central (03) 5448 7124
North East (02) 6043 7600
Port Phillip and Western Port (03) 8781 7900
West Gippsland 1300 094 262

Tags: Boundaries, Environment
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
2016 Bellarine Peninsula 1% AEP Coastal Inundation Dynamic Model with 0.5m Sea Level Rise - Dynamic Model

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

Dynamic inundation modelling was carried out to create this data layer for 1% Annual Exceedance Probability (AEP) coastal inundation under the assumption of 0.5 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
Current Coastal Action Plans

Dataset containing an indication of the geographic extent covered by each current Coastal Action Plan identified in 'Table 2: Coastal Action Plan Status', of the Victorian Coastal Council’s 2010-11 Annual Report. The dataset contains attributes identifying the report title, year of the report, Coastal Board region, unique identifier assigned to report, link that allows the report to be directly referenced, and link to source website page used to locate and obtain document.
To support the capture of a suitable geographic extent covered by Coastal Plans each plan was reviewed and categorised in terms of the area it covered. For plans covering a local government area, Catchment Management Authority, Coastal Management Board area, or township, a nominal buffer was applied around the spatial extent of these administrative units. For reports containing a clear study area, this boundary was captured and used to depict the geographical area covered by the report.

Tags: Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Immediate Protection Areas IPA

This layer represents polygon coverage of immediate protection areas announced under the Victorian Forestry Plan and updated on 21 November 2019. The Immediate Protection Area (IPA) responds to a new conservation measure described within the Flora and Fauna Guarantee (FFG) Action Statement for the Greater Glider and indicates areas of State Forest (including existing Special Protection Zone, Special Management Zone and General Management Zone) and other public land areas where timber harvesting operations are to be excluded.

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

Surface-groundwater interactions were mapped as part of the Murray-Darling Basin (MDB) Sustainable Yields Project. This mapping represents a snapshot in time of fluxes to or from major rivers across the Murray-Darling Basin. The regions where connectivity mapping was conducted were: Loddon-Avoca, Campaspe, Goulburn-Broken, Ovens, Murray, Murrumbidgee, Lachlan, Macquarie-Castlereagh, Namoi, Gwydir, Border Rivers, Condamine-Balonne and Barwon-Darling. 
This dataset includes the qualitative mapped results of the rivers within Victoria and indicates where river reaches are gaining/losing/seasonally varying in nature. An overview report that describes the method used to undertake the surface-groundwater interaction mapping can be found at http://www.clw.csiro.au/publications/waterforahealthycountry/mdbsy/technical/R-SW-GW-Connectivity.pdf.

Tags: Geoscientific information, Inland waters
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
VAF_EXTENT_108UMTD

This dataset relates to the Victorian Aquifer Framework (VAF) 3D Surface for the Upper Mid Tertiary Aquitard. It represents the mapped extent of the aquitard.

Please refer to the master metadata record VAF 'Victorian Aquifer Framework (VAF) 3D Surfaces' for detailed information.

Tags: Geoscientific information, Inland waters
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Victorian Coastal Cliff Assessment - Risk Score - Medium Term - 2040 - 2070

The Coastal Cliff Risk Score datasets evaluate the likelihood and consequence of cliff instability to support risk management in areas with coastal cliffs. This includes the classification of risk across the determined timeframes and climate change scenarios.

The dataset provides a second-pass, regional assessment providing a top-down coastal compartment view of risk which. The outputs of second-pass risk assessments can be used to support discussion among stakeholders regarding coastal erosion and instability risks, broader climate change risks and the development of adaptation pathways within Victoria’s coastal compartments. However, it should be noted that this assessment has been undertaken at a high level (regional/state-wide scale) and is not appropriate for local scale planning. The data from this assessment may be superseded by local scale and site-specific assessments undertaken by a suitably qualified and experienced practitioner. The assessment is based on available data, tools and understanding of coastal processes.

The product is recommended for use at the statewide / regional scale along the Victorian coastline. Application of the data should be guided by the accompanying Victorian Coastal Cliff Assessment, Stage 2a technical report (Tonkin &amp; Taylor 2025) read in conjunction with the Stage 1 technical report, combined with appropriate expert advice. The product is not suitable for individual property scale assessments. 

Further information is contained in the study report "Victorian Coastal Cliff Assessment, Stage 2a technical report", Tonkin &amp; Taylor 2025.

Tags: Environment, Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Port Fairy 100 ARI 2100 1.2m SLR Inundation

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

This data represents the inundation extent for the Port Fairy study area. It has been derived from the combined analysis of the results of "bathtub" inundation modelling (considering astronomical tide, barometric setup and wave setup) and "dynamic coastal inundation numerical modelling" for the coastal area of the Port Fairy township (estimating combined ocean and catchment flooding).

The following conditions were assumed:
- 20 year Average Recurrence Interval (ARI) Riverine Boundary Condition
- 100 year ARI Ocean Boundary Condition
- 2100, 1.2 m Sea Level Rise
- Extended dune breach (385m) next to East Beach rock revetment end 

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
Geological rock types lines (1:100,000)

The data contains primary geological data, namely boundary types separating rock units. Other geological features (e.g. fault or dyke) are included where the feature forms a boundary to rock units.

This layer has been superseded by the Seamless Geology layers for 
Faults - SG_SHEAR_DISPLACE_STRUC_50K
Contacts - SG_GEOL_UNIT_CONTACT_50K

The dataset is part of the geological mapping dataset, which includes datasets representing geological rock units and boundaries, structural lines, miscellaneous lines and points, miscellaneous polygons, metamorphism, and placer deposits.

The data have been collected by the Geological Survey of Victoria. Data have typically been captured in projects covering 1:100,000 mapsheets, and have typically been recorded in the field by hand at 1:25,000 then prepared for hard copy printing at 1:50,000.

Tags: Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
PLM25 overlays representing Heritage Rivers

This dataset was created in conjunction with PLM25, to represent the management overlays. The attributes are based on the PLM25 structure. 
The overlays have been mapped at 1:25 000, using VicMap topographic data to create more accurate and identifiable boundaries.

PLM25_OVERLAYS is located under the CROWNLAND schema. It has been created in conjunction with PLM25 to ensure the overlays match the PLM25 land management categories.

PLEASE NOTE: This dataset now replaces the PLM100 overlays.

PLM25_OVERLAYS_HR is a view of PLM25_OVERLAYS.

This dataset is a representation of the certified plans - the gazettal and certified plans are the official boundaries.

Currently the creation process is not automated or synchronised with PLM25 updates.

Tags: Boundaries, Environment, Inland waters, Society
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
2016 Bellarine Peninsula 1% AEP Coastal Inundation Static Model with 1.10m 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 1.1m 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
Abundance of Deer on Victorian Public Land

Model-based predictions of average deer abundance on Victorian public land. Model predictions are based on camera-trap and deer sign surveys at 317 sites across Victoria conducted between 2021 and 2023. The raster data is divided into four layers/bands for the four species analysed in this study: Sambar deer (Cervus unicolor), Fallow deer (Dama dama), Red deer (Cervus elaphus) and Hog deer (Axis porcinus). Abundance estimates are provided as a numeric decimal of deer per square kilometre of public land within each grid cell. The technical report accompanying this data is available from the Arthur Rylah Institute (ARI) website: https://www.ari.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0035/686591/ARI-Technical-Report-368-Deer-abundance-in-Victoria.pdf

The raster data may be loaded into programs such as R or QGIS for analysis. When opening the data in QGIS, undertake the following steps: 
1) Follow 'Layer &gt; Add Later &gt; Add Raster Layer' to select the tif file to be added 
2) Right-click on the added layer in the 'Layers' panel and select 'Properties'
3) Visualise the abundance of one of the four species of deer by selecting 'Symbology &gt; Band Rendering &gt; Render Type = Singleband Pseudocolor' 
4) Choose the band (species) you wish to display
5) Apply the changes

Tags: Biota, Environment
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Vicmap Elevation 1m Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Footprints

Vicmap Elevation 1m DEM Footprints represent the boundaries of the LiDAR DEM Collection datasets used in the Vicmap 1m DEM. This is a spatial metadata dataset belonging to the Vicmap 1m DEM product. Like the Vicmap 1m DEM itself, the footprints are also available as spatial web services (WFS).

Tags: Elevation, Environment, Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Urban Development Program - Industrial Land 2020

Identifies all industrial land and the development status and size of each land parcel in hectare across metropolitan Melbourne.
This information identifies all industrial zoned land (Industrial 1, 2 and 3 as well as Commercial 2 Zone), and land of an industrial character and includes the Airport Business Parks, selected Special Use Zones, selected Comprehensive Development Zones and specific precincts within the Activity Centre Zones and Urban Growth Zones.
Each land parcel is assessed as being either Unavailable (currently being used) or Supply (vacant).

Urban Development Program (UDP).

Tags: Planning cadastre, Structure
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning