AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Range Land Systems Deep Well Station

A series of soil and land resource surveys were conducted between 1976 and 1991 in the Alice Springs region over 43 pastoral leases, some of which are now Aboriginal Land Trusts. All mapping was originally published in hard copy format and digitised into a GIS polygon spatial format between 2013 and 2018.

In 2020, a project was initiated to create consistent descriptive attributes for the spatial datasets and also update the mapping products. The updata spatial datasets for the pastoral properties will be published in groups and will be listed in the Lineage notes in the metadata record. http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=html&metadata_id=A387392F36456809E040CD9B214458CE.

The Technical Reports are not generally available. They are held in the Arid Zone Research Institute Library in Alice Springs. Contact: azri.library@nt.gov.au

Tags: Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Range Land Systems Coniston Station

A series of soil and land resource surveys were conducted between 1976 and 1991 in the Alice Springs region over 43 pastoral leases, some of which are now Aboriginal Land Trusts. All mapping was originally published in hard copy format and digitised into a GIS polygon spatial format between 2013 and 2018.

In 2020, a project was initiated to create consistent descriptive attributes for the spatial datasets and also update the mapping products. The updata spatial datasets for the pastoral properties will be published in groups and will be listed in the Lineage notes in the metadata record. http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=html&metadata_id=A387392F36456809E040CD9B214458CE.

The Technical Reports are not generally available. They are held in the Arid Zone Research Institute Library in Alice Springs. Contact: azri.library@nt.gov.au

Tags: Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Range Land Systems Bushy Park Station

A series of soil and land resource surveys were conducted between 1976 and 1991 in the Alice Springs region over 43 pastoral leases, some of which are now Aboriginal Land Trusts. All mapping was originally published in hard copy format and digitised into a GIS polygon spatial format between 2013 and 2018.

In 2020, a project was initiated to create consistent descriptive attributes for the spatial datasets and also update the mapping products. The updata spatial datasets for the pastoral properties will be published in groups and will be listed in the Lineage notes in the metadata record. http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=html&metadata_id=A387392F36456809E040CD9B214458CE.

The Technical Reports are not generally available. They are held in the Arid Zone Research Institute Library in Alice Springs. Contact: azri.library@nt.gov.au

Tags: Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Range Land Systems of Aileron Station

A series of soil and land resource surveys were conducted between 1976 and 1991 in the Alice Springs region over 43 pastoral leases, some of which are now Aboriginal Land Trusts. All mapping was originally published in hard copy format and digitised into a GIS polygon spatial format between 2013 and 2018.

In 2020, a project was initiated to create consistent descriptive attributes for the spatial datasets and also update the mapping products. The updated spatial datasets for the pastoral properties will be published in groups and will be listed in the Lineage notes in the metadata record. http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=html&metadata_id=A387392F36456809E040CD9B214458CE.

The Technical Reports are not generally available. They are held in the Arid Zone Research Institute Library in Alice Springs. Contact: azri.library@nt.gov.au

Tags: Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Land Types of Maryvale Station

This polygon spatial dataset provides information on the land types of Maryvale Station, Northern Territory.  The survey area of 3256km2 is located approximately 100km south of Alice Springs.  The Land Type descriptions were hand written during a land resource survey of Maryvale Station in the early 1980s, probably at a similar time a land resource survey was undertaken on the adjoining Orange Creek Station. The descriptions are the only information currently available.  It is unknown whether the descriptions were draft or finalised.  Given no site soil-landscape or vegetation field records from this survey have been located, and a technical report was not published, it should be assumed the information is DRAFT.  The Maryvale Station land type descriptions only contain short geological and geomorphic descriptions.  Given no site soil-landscape or vegetation field records from this survey have been located; the land types should be verified with a field investigation if a high level of confidence is required.

Tags: Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Soil Assessment Survey of Henbury Station

This polygon spatial dataset provides broad scale reconnaissance land system boundaries for Henbury Station, Northern Territory, and describes dominant soils and landscapes. The survey aimed to refine existing Henbury Land System mapping (Bastian 1983) and improve soil property descriptions. The survey area of 5,300 km2 is located approximately 120 km south-west of Alice Springs via the Stuart Highway.

79 field sites were described during July - September 2020, including 17 with laboratory analysis. The spatial data has a mapping scale of 1:250,000.

Tags: Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Soil and Land Suitability Assessment for Irrigated Agriculture in the Larrimah Area, Sturt Plateau

Version 2. This spatial dataset provides polygon information delineating land unit boundaries at a scale of 1: 25 000 and describes the dominant landform, soils and vegetation of the Larrimah Area, Sturt Plateau, Northern Territory. The study area covers 427km2 and is located north-east of Larrimah.  The primary purpose of the investigation was to map, describe and evaluate soil landscapes to inform future irrigation development in an area with identified potential for groundwater extraction. Core landform, soil and vegetation attributes attached to the land units are included with the spatial dataset. The project was conducted over 12 months from July 2014 to June 2015.   CAUTION: Map unit boundaries were derived using satellite imagery in association with a digital elevation model, geological and topographic data. Landform, soil and vegetation field assessments conform to national standards and support mapping at a scale of 1:25 000. When assessing specific areas within the mapping it is recommended a site inspection is undertaken to establish unmapped variation and confirm mapping accuracy on the ground. This map does not indicate, imply or ascertain the likelihood of groundwater availability or the granting of appropriate water extraction licensing needed to satisfy the irrigation requirements of the potential agricultural development options needed.

Tags: Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Soil and Land Suitability Assessment for Irrigated Agriculture in the Larrimah Township Area, Sturt Plateau

Version 2. Soil and Land Suitability Assessment for Irrigated Agriculture on NT Portion 4478 and 4663 in the Larrimah Township area, Sturt Plateau. Department survey code  LAR18_25 The field survey was undertaken at a mapping scale of 1:25,000.  This polygon spatial dataset describes findings from a soil and land suitability investigation undertaken during 2018 to assess irrigated agricultural potential on crown lands surrounding the township of Larrimah in the Sturt Plateau. Findings from the current study identify significant potential for irrigated agricultural development within NT Portions 4478 and 4663.  The primary purpose of the investigation was to map, describe and evaluate soil landscapes to inform future irrigation development in an area with identified potential for groundwater extraction. Core landform, soil and vegetation attributes attached to the land units are included with the spatial dataset.  CAUTION: Map unit boundaries were derived using satellite imagery in association with a digital elevation model, geological and topographic data. Landform, soil and vegetation field assessments conform to national standards and support mapping at a scale of 1:25 000.  When assessing specific areas within the mapping it is recommended a site inspection is undertaken to establish unmapped variation and confirm mapping accuracy on the ground. The mapping does not indicate, imply or ascertain the likelihood of groundwater availability or the granting of appropriate water extraction licensing needed to satisfy the irrigation requirements of the potential agricultural development options needed.

Tags: Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Boundary extents of all NT land resource surveys

This is a polygon spatial dataset describing Land Resource Surveys over the Northern Territory at various scales ranging from 1:3,000 to 1:2,000,000. This summary index contains a single boundary polygon for each survey, grouped together into a compilation spatial dataset. 

Each polygon record contains descriptive details about the survey and weblinks to metadata, report and map (if available).
This compilation dataset is regularly updated when new land resource surveys are completed or existing surveys are amended.

Tags: Boundaries, Environment, Geoscientific Information
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
NT Gamma Log Areas

Bores drilled in these areas are required to submit a Gamma Log with the Statement of Bore.

The purpose of this is to identify the contact between the Tindall and Jinduckin aquifers in the Daly Basin and the Gum Ridge and Anthony Lagoon aquifers in the Georgina Basin. These aquifers are required to be sealed off from each other and a gamma log is the most accurate method to determine the boundary between them.

Tags: Geoscientific Information
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Potential Land for Long-term Sustainable Food Production, 2014, Second Edition

Potential Land for Long-term Sustainable Food Production.  Soil and Water Suitability Assessment, 2nd Edition.  Oct, 2014.  This 2014 report and spatial data supercedes the previous report: - Identification of Potential Land for Long-term Sustainable Food Production.  Stage 1: Identification of Soil and Water Resources.  Sept, 2011  The study integrates existing broad scale soil, landform and water resource mapping with climate conditions such as rainfall as well as agronomic requirements.  The investigation has identified soil and land resources across the Northern Territory that may be investigated further for potential development.  The data used for this analysis is broad scale and intended for Northern Territory wide and regional assessments and is not appropriate for detailed planning.  The report contains a series of 20 maps.  The METHODOLOGY of the analysis is depicted in Maps 1 - 9 (and Appendix A) and the RESULTS are depicted in Maps 10 - 19.  The associated spatial data is stored in an ESRI file geodatabase format.  The spatial data must be viewed in conjunction with the report.  Refer to Supplementary Information in this metadata record.

Tags: Biota, Environment, Farming, Geoscientific Information, Imagery Base Maps Earth Cover
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Mapped Streams and Drainage Bodies, Northern Territory

Mapped streams are polyline spatial datasets clipped to the Northern Territory including a 70 km buffer beyond the border. The drainage lines are displayed in three separate datasets; Major, Minor and Streams. Metadata: http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=html&metadata_id=8003F6A9CD8F02C3E050CD9B21442D75.

Drainage bodies are polygon spatial dataset clipped to the Northern Territory including a 70km buffer beyond the border. Metadata: http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=html&metadata_id=D2FDF5D5FA05ECDDE0532144CD9B8ADF.

The data was sourced from the Australian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (AHGF Geofabric) V3.2 via the Commonwealth of Australia (Bureau of Meteorology) and modified by this department. View metadata for details.

Tags: Geoscientific Information, Inland Waters
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
NT Crime Statistics February 2024

This dataset contains counts of offences recorded by the NT Police, categorised by offence type, time period (month), location and (for assault offences) alcohol and domestic violence involvement. Certain types of offences show strong seasonal impacts and numbers show considerable monthly variation, particularly at the regional level. 

There has been a break in the crime statistics time series following November 2023, due to the implementation of the SerPro data system.  This means that the statistics from December 2023 onwards should not be compared directly to earlier statistics.

Despite the dataset representing the offences that had been recorded at the time of extraction, it has been identified that the February 2024 statistics may not match the demand for police services in some areas.  Work is being undertaken by the Department of the Attorney-General and Justice and the NT Police to identify and rectify the issues.


Tags: Alcohol, Crime, DV, Domestic Violence, Justice, Statistics
Organization: Attorney-General’s
Mangroves of the Darwin Region: Native Point to Adelaide River, 1996-2016

This polygon spatial dataset provides new information on mangrove communities in the Darwin Region. All previous mangrove surveys were standardised and combined to produce one dataset. The survey area covers approximately 92,000 hectares of mangrove and salt flats and includes the Bynoe Harbour, Charles Point., Darwin Harbour, Shoal Bay, Gunn Point and Adelaide River mapping. 
Department survey code (vegetation) MANDREG_10 
More detail on various aspects for Bynoe and Darwin Harbour is contained in the original reports. Map unit coding has changed from the original surveys for a small number of communities. 
The original field surveys and mapping was undertaken from 1996 to 2018 at a mapping scale of 1:25,000 and 1:10,000.

Tags: Biota, Environment
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Vegetation Communities of Cobourg Peninsula

This is a compilation of several polygon spatial datasets and provides broad information on the vegetation map unit boundaries of Garig Gunak Barlu National Park, Northern Territory. The survey area, of 2029 km2, is located approximately 570 km, by road, north east of Darwin on the Cobourg Peninsula. The data is relevant for use at a mapping scale of 1:100,000. 

In 2010, mangrove mapping was incorporated into the generalised vegetation polygons. The data represents a brief synopsis only and is not designed as an exhaustive treatise on the vegetation of Cobourg Peninsula. The vegetation descriptions and mapped polygons were obtained from the analysis of field plot data, various published reports and vegetation surveys.

Tags: Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Vegetation Survey of Weddell

This high resolution vegetation survey (scale 1:10,000) and accompanying polygon spatial dataset provides information about the vegetation communities over the Weddell area, Northern Territory. This information is intended to support the development of the proposed Weddell townsite area and surrounds.  
 
In 2020, vegetation communities for the Middle Arm Peninsula, west of Weddell, were appended to the original dataset. This includes new survey work as well as existing mangrove mapping. The survey extent has increased from 179 km2 to 443 km2 in area.

Tags: Biota, Environment
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Soils of the Lower Daly River Region, 1975

This polygon spatial dataset provides information on the land unit boundaries of the Lower Daly River Region, Northern Territory and describes landform, soils and some vegetation. The survey area of 3,500 km2 is bisected by the lower Daly River and is located between the community of Nauiyu to the mouth of the Daly.
The original field survey was undertaken in 1975 at a mapping scale of approximately 1:30,000 to complement other investigations for the irrigation potential of the area. This spatial dataset contains only a minimal set of attributes describing the land units

Tags: Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Soils of the Kilfoyle Plain, 1967

This polygon spatial dataset provides information on the land unit boundaries of the Kilfoyle Plains within the Lower Daly River Region, Northern Territory and describes dominant landform, soils and some vegetation. The survey area of 1,421 km2 is bisected by the lower Daly River and is located between the community of Nauiyu to the northern side of the mouth of the Daly.
 
The original field survey was undertaken between 1965 and 1967 at a mapping scale of approximately 1:30,000 to complement other investigations for the irrigation potential of the area. This spatial dataset contains only a minimal set of attributes describing the land units.

Tags: Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Benthic Communities and Bathymetry of the Gunn Point Peninsula, 2020

This polygon spatial dataset describes the benthic habitats likely to occur in marine environments around Gunn Point Peninsula and informs the desktop assessment of the marine biodiversity values for the region. The benthic habitats are inferred from existing information but in most cases require further data collection to validate and refine. Habitat modelling forms the basis of benthic community value assessment for Shoal Bay (Galaiduk et al. 2019). 

This raster dataset describes the bathymetry for waters surrounding the Gunn Point peninsula. To assist with identifying spatial distribution of flora and fauna living on the seafloor (epibenthos) depth data layers from several point data datasets were collated, interpolated and resampled to a 10m cell size. The depth reference of the raster is mean sea level (MSL, about +4.2m LAT or 0m AHD). 
These data should not be used for Navigation purposes. The methodology used to derive bathymetric map does not comply with IHO standards and therefore cannot be used for navigational purposes.

The accompanying report Marine and Coastal Biodiversity Assessment of the Gunn Point Area (2020) forms part of the Mapping the Future Project - Gunn Point. 
This project has identified land capability, water availability and biodiversity values to support land planning and inform development potential over the Gunn Point area. Reports and maps can be viewed from the webpage: https://denr.nt.gov.au/land-resource-management/development-opportunities 

Tags: Biota, Imagery Base Maps Earth Cover, Oceans, marine biodiversity
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Vegetation Communities of the Gunn Point Area, 2020

This polygon spatial dataset describes vegetation communities in the Gunn Point Area, north of Darwin in the Northern Territory. 
The area was mapped at a scale of 1:25,000. The aim of the mapping was to improve upon the 1998 vegetation survey mapped at a scale of 1:100,000. The extent of the Gunn Point Area covers approximated 70,800 ha. and is defined by the Howard Water Allocation Planning Areas north of Gunn Point Road to the coastline. 

The information was compiled as part of: Mapping the Future Project - Gunn Point 
This project has identified land capability, water availability and biodiversity values to support land planning and inform development potential over the Gunn Point area. 
Reports and maps can be viewed from the Mapping the Future webpage: https://denr.nt.gov.au/land-resource-management/development-opportunities 

Tags: Biota, Environment
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Land Capability Assessment of Weddell

This spatial dataset provides polygon information on the land capability map units of the Weddell area, Northern Territory. This survey provides high resolution (1:10,000 scale) land capability information to support the development of the proposed Township of Weddell and surrounds specifically describing the land capability for urban development with respect to soil drainage, soil depth, slope, gravels and rock.
This dataset was completed in 2011 however was made available to the public in July 2020.

Tags: Biota, Environment
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Soil and Land Capability Assessment Lower Weaber and Keep River Plains. Section 2: Lower Keep.

Department Survey Code (Soil Surveys): KRP18_25

This spatial dataset provides polygon information delineating land unit boundaries at a scale of 1: 25,000. The investigation has assessed land based constraints and determined land capability outcomes for potential future agricultural development.
The study area, Section 2, covers 168 km2 and is located in the north-west Ord-Victoria River region of the Northern Territory within the Spirit Hills pastoral lease.

The investigation has reinterpreted legacy soil data - Land Units of the Keep Plains, NT. (Aldrick and Moody 1977) This original survey describes the land resource information over the Lower Keep area. Use the field LAND_UNIT in both surveys to join the datasets. 

Tags: Biota, Geoscientific Information
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Soil and Land Capability Assessment Lower Weaber Keep River Plains – Section 1: Lower Weaber and Upper Keep

Department Survey Code (Land Units): WEA18_25 

This spatial dataset provides polygon information delineating land unit boundaries mapped at a scale of 1:25 000 and describes the soils, vegetation and land capability of the Lower Weaber and Upper Keep Plains in the Northern Territory. The study area, Section 1, covers 67 km2 and is located in the north-west Ord-Victoria River region of the Northern Territory within the Spirit Hills pastoral lease. 

The investigation has assessed land based constraints and determined land capability outcomes for potential future agricultural development. It incorporates both collated legacy data published in Aldrick and Moody (1977) and new analytical soil data collected in 2018, in combination with analysis of high resolution aerial imagery to generate reliable land capability outcomes. 

Tags: Biota, Geoscientific Information
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment
Land Units Mount Ringwood Station

This polygon spatial dataset provides information on the land unit boundaries of Mount Ringwood Station, Northern Territory and describes dominant landform, soils and vegetation. The survey area of 160 km2 is located on the western part of Mount Ringwood Station, approximately 100 km east of the Adelaide River township. The survey area, between Howley Creek and Margaret River, was selected for evaluation of current and future development.
The original field survey was undertaken in 1978 at a mapping scale of 1:25,000.
Core attributes describing the land units, as defined by this department, were added to the spatial dataset in October 2020.

Tags: Biota, Environment, Geoscientific Information
Organization: Lands, Planning and Environment