AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Victorian Coastal Cliff Assessment - Instability Areas (ASCCIE) - Present day - 0.0m SLR

The Victorian Coastal Cliff Assessment - Instability Areas (ASCCIE) is a digital dataset consisting of multiple spatial layer outputs from modelled erosion scenarios. The dataset 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 technical reports and expert advice. The product is not suitable for individual property scale assessments. 

Consolidated shorelines, which include soil and rock cliffs, are not able to rebuild following periods of erosion but rather are subject to a one-way process of degradation. ASCCIEs typically have two components:

• Toe Erosion
A gradual retreat of the cliff toe caused by weathering, marine and bio-erosion processes. This retreat will be affected by global process such as sea level rise and potentially increased soil moisture. Future cliff toe position based on historical erosion rates with a factor applied to allow for the effect of future sea level rise.

• Cliff Instability
Episodic instability events are predominately due to a change in loading or material properties of the cliff or yielding along a geological structure. In soft cliffs, instability causes the cliff slope to flatten to a slope under which it is “stable” (geo-mechanically). Soil cliff slope instabilities are influenced by processes that erode and destabilise the cliff toe, including marine processes, weathering and biological erosion or change the stress within the cliff slope. Most of the hard cliffs are stable at very steep angles. Instability events may range from small-scale instabilities (block or rock falls) or discontinuities, to cliff slope instability cause by large-scale and deep-seated mass movement. The latter mode of failure in hard cliffs is rare.

The product is an update to the Victorian Coastal Cliff Assessment, Stage 1. Included datasets for Stage 2a supersede the Stage 1 outputs. The Stage 2a project report should be read in conjunction with the Stage 1 report. Application of the data should be guided by the accompanying "Victorian Coastal Cliff Assessment, Stage 2a technical report" (Tonkin & Taylor 2025) read in conjunction with the Stage 1 technical report, combined with appropriate expert advice.

Tags: Environment, Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Watertable Salinity

This dataset comprises watertable salinity for Victoria. Salinity concentration has been mapped in mg/L for Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) using the following classes: <600, 601-1200, 1201-3100, 3101-5400, 5401-7100, 7101-10000, >10000. These classes reflect the beneficial use segments prescribed in the State Environment Protection Policy (Waters) (2018).

Tags: Geoscientific information, Inland waters
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
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
Watertable Depth to Groundwater

This dataset is a model of watertable depth at 100m resolution containing interval values of <5m, 5-10m, 10-20m, 20-50m and >50m.The model was compiled as the difference between Digital Terrain Model (DTM) and watertable elevation in mAHD. Both models are at a raster resolution of 100m.

Tags: Geoscientific information, Inland waters
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Coal Seam and Overburden Thickness

Coal seam isopach. contoured at 10 m.

<a href=&#09;http://er-info.dpi.vic.gov.au/publications/documentation/geovic_3/earth_resources/coal_model_modelled_seam_descriptions_2011.html&#09;>Link to Further Coal Seam model Information</a>

<a href=&#09;http://geology.data.vic.gov.au/CoalResource/&#09;>Link to Coal Model Data (works in firefox , but not internet explorer)</a>

Tags: Economy, Geoscientific information, Structure, Utilities communication
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Geological Basin Faults

Geological faults interpreted by the Victorian Gas Program as part of VGP report 64.These faults do in some cases form the bounds of structural elements in GEOL_BASIN_STRUCT_ELE.
Bibliographic reference:
Vujovic, A., Goldie Divko, L.M. & Eid, R., 2021. A review of structural elements, Otway Basin, Victoria. VGP Technical Report 64. Geological Survey of Victoria, Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Melbourne, Victoria.

Tags: Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
VEAC Metropolitan Melbourne Open Space Inventory

The dataset consists of polygons delineating areas of public land(1) and local council land(2) that have been classified as public open space. Polygon attributes describe the public open space category and owner. The datset covers 31 municipalities in metropolitan Melbourne. 

The definition used to attribute a polyon as public open space is 'those areas of public land and local council land that have an accepted and ongoing community use for outdoor recreation and informal activities, and that are freely accessible to the public'.

The VEAC Metropolitan Melbourne Open Space Inventory does not include Commonwealth land; schools; cemeteries; gated facilities; road plantations; closed roads; concourses around stadia; inaccessible Trust for Nature properties; 'services and utilities' public land that does not have an ongoing recreational use; future open space (e.g. areas covered by Public Aquisition Overlays); and uncategorised public land.

1. 'Public Land' is Crown land and freehold land owned by Victorian Government Agencies.

2. 'Local Council Land' is freehold land owned by local councils.

Tags: Boundaries, Planning cadastre, Society
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Victorian Coastal Inundation Sea Level Rise Storm Tide 2009

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/
> Future Coasts (Modelled)

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
LCC, ECC, and VEAC unreviewed areas

A GIS layer of areas, former cities, townships, and boroughs that have not been assessed or reviewed in an investigation by LCC, ECC, or VEAC. 
The Land Conservation Council Act 1970 excluded areas from public land use studies based on municipal status; this criteria was not included in the two subsequent Acts establishing the ECC and VEAC. The status of former cities, towns, and boroughs (outside the metropolitan Melbourne area) that were excluded from past studies and have not been subsequently assessed by the ECC or VEAC is shown as well as the current municipality. Note that several municipal areas were restructured during the interval of past studies and the status of recommendations in areas technically excluded at the time of final recommendations was treated variably (recommendations for the former City of South Barwon were accepted in Melbourne Study Area Final Recommendations (1977); recommendations for, City of Cranbourne, City of Seymour in Melbourne Area District 2 Review Final Recommendations (1994) were not accepted). A government response to accept any of these recommendations is taken to mean that the LCC’s recommendations apply.
All municipalities except Queenscliffe were restructured between 1993 and 1995. Municipal boundaries at the time of LCC public land use studies, in most cases, do not reflect the current local government areas across the state.
The beds of the Gippsland Lakes were excluded from all public land use investigations by the LCC, ECC and VEAC.
Thematic land use reviews such as the LCC’s Rivers and Streams Special Investigation, Wilderness Special Investigation, Historic Places Special Investigation South-Western Victoria, ECC’s Marine, Coastal & Estuarine Investigation covered specific types of public land that was within some of the excluded municipalities.

Tags: Boundaries, Environment
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Geological Basin Structural Elements

Executive summary:
As part of the Victorian Gas Program (VGP), the Geological Survey of Victoria (GSV) is studying the Otway Basin's petroleum systems components (reservoir, seal and source), to assess its petroleum prospectivity and to estimate the potential for further conventional gas discoveries onshore and offshore within Victoria's jurisdiction.

Reference to geological structural elements (e.g. the Penola Trough or Port Campbell Embayment) enable geologists to convey ideas about geological features in specific locations. Throughout the VGP, geological structural elements such as troughs or depocentres, platforms, basement and topographic highs have been referenced. As the studies progressed, it was evident that a standard set of names and boundaries for structural elements in the Victorian Otway Basin needed to be defined.

New data and interpretations arising from VGP studies, such as the airborne gravity data (Carter et al., 2019) and the 3D geological framework model (Romine et al., 2020), were used in this study to accurately define the boundaries of structural elements. Existing interpretations and literature were also consulted and combined with the boundary definitions to develop a set of georeferenced polygons or shapefiles, defining the major structural elements of the Victorian Otway Basin: Early Cretaceous depocentres, Late Cretaceous depocentres and platforms, and basement and topographic highs.

From previous publications, consistent naming had been established for most structural elements; however, some elements had multiple names. Most previously identified structural elements were ill-defined with only small-scale illustrations available. The names used to define the structural elements in this study were resolved by considering the evolution of the understanding of the Otway Basin, along with historical precedence and common usage in the literature.

This review of Victorian Otway Basin structural elements provides a detailed set of output files (Attachment A1). These can be used as a consistent reference for future mapping and modelling studies. The structural elements defined in this study are not considered a definitive list. Further refinements should be possible if new data is acquired over areas where data availability limited the interpretation in this study.

Bibliographic reference:
Vujovic, A., Goldie Divko, L.M. & Eid, R., 2021. A review of structural elements, Otway Basin, Victoria. VGP Technical Report 64. Geological Survey of Victoria, Department of Jobs, Precincts and Regions, Melbourne, Victoria.

Tags: Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Lineaments interpreted from Radiometric Data

This dataset was derived using 50m gridded radiometrics data including:

Plain raster images of individual channels (TC, K, Th & U)
Individual channels (TC, K, Th & U) draped over topography
RGB false colour images of K (red), Th (green) and U (blue) with and without topography and lineaments and compared to topography and lineaments.

(where Total Count - TC, Potassium - K, Thorium - Th and Uranium -U) .

The interpretation was completed on a regional or sub-regional scale using geophysical remote sensing techniques. By combining the radiometrics and topography datasets, a pseudo-geomorphology is created. The radiometrics respond to soil cover in first the 0.5m of depth. As soils may change across small fault boundaries, radiometric lineaments bear the best relationship with topographic lineaments. From the various radiometric outputs the following key observations have been made:

The ENE-WSW lineaments are evident but not as extensively as in the interpreted topographic dataset;
The NNW-SSE lineament datasets is most dominant in the radiometric data;
In the Otway Basin, many radiometric lineaments are parallel to the cost and are due to strandlines or basin faults;
In the Murray Basin, strandlines are obvious as they are evident in the topographic data;
In some cases, the soil radiometric chemistry changes across topographic lineaments, supporting the interpretation of topographic lineaments as evidence of small palaeo-fault movement.

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
Soil Grids of Victorian - Soil Silt %

A set of Digital Soil Maps (mean, 5th and 95th percentile prediction values) of soil silt % across Victoria in geotiff format. Silt is considered to be the 2 - 20 um mass fraction of the < 2mm soil material.

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.

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
Vicmap Elevation - Ground Surface Photogrammetric Control Point 1 to 5 Metres covering Metropolitan Melbourne

This layer is part of Vicmap Elevation 1-5 Contours & Relief, a subset of Vicmap Elevation. It contains point features delineating ground surface points photogrammetric control points.
Data has been derived from Melbourne Water base maps and converted to Microstation .DGN format.
Data is incomplete ie. there are "holes" in the data where for example there are quarries, or large building sites.

Tags: Elevation, Environment, Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Victorian Coastal Inundation Sea Level Rise 2070

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 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/
> Future Coasts (Modelled)

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 Transport - Airport Infrastructure Polygon

This layer is part of Vicmap Transport and exists is a dataset containing polygon features delineating airport runways.
Includes; Airports
When capturing the Airport data for the state, some data was captured in polygon form some was captured in line form. To get a more complete portrayal of Airport data, this dataset should be used with the "Airport Infrastructure - Vicmap Transport" dataset.
Also available in a point layer.

Tags: Transportation
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Vicmap Transport - Airport Infrastructure Line

This layer is part of Vicmap Transport and contains line features delineating airport infrastructure features.
Includes; Airports & Runways

When capturing the Airport data for the state, some data was captured in polygon form some was captured in line form. To get a more complete portrayal of Airport data, this dataset should be used with the 'Airport Infrastucture Area (polygon) - Vicmap Transport' dataset.

Tags: Transportation
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Vicmap Elevation - Contour Line (10 and 20 metres)

This layer is part of Vicmap Elevation 10-20 Contours & Relief, a subset of Vicmap Elevation. It contains topographical relief features represented by lines. Data has been derived from Land Victoria's State Digital Map Base topographic data and converted from Microstation .DGN format to Arc/Info format.

Tags: Elevation, Environment, Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Vicmap Admin - Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) Region Polygon

Part of the Vicmap Admin dataset series. This dataset contains the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (DEECA) Regional Boundaries as defined by DEECA. 
The regions are based on the Victorian Government Regional Boundaries. The main difference is that the three metropolitan regions have been aggregated to form the Port Phillip region, there are six regions.
Aligned to Road Network - Vicmap Transport.

Tags: Boundaries, Society
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Broadhectare Residential Land 2019

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
Bushfire Risk Engagement Areas (BREA)

This layer represents polygon coverage Bushfire Risk Engagement Areas (BREA) across the entire State of Victoria, generally on both public and private land. BREA is broad land categorisation which provides a prioritisation framework for fuel management engagement and delivery where fire is suitable for managing risk.

Generalised boundary layer aligned to areas of bushfire risk and may not correlate to natural, manmade or administrative features.

Dataset was created 18 September with from the statewide strategic bushfire management planning process 2017-2019 

 

Dataset last updated 20 April 2017 with changes from WCBRL (per A Boak). 
Dataset updated 30 Jan 2017 with changes from ECBRL (per F Wilson). 
Dataset updated 19 August 2016 with changes from MMGBRL (per D Prior).

Tags: Environment
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action