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Victorian Coastal Cliff Assessment - Instability Areas (ASCCIE) - 2100 - 1.1m 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
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 > Add Later > 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 > Band Rendering > 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
Terrestrial Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem (GDE) Density and Biodiversity Value

This dataset is based on two primary inputs: (1) the Potential Terrestrial Groundwater Dependent Ecosystem (GDE) mapping undertaken by Dresel et al. (2010). See separate metadata record for GDE_TERR_DENSITY, and: (2) Natureprint V2.0 (DSE, 2011). NPv2 is a ranked surface of biodiversity values across Victoria implemented within the reserve design and spatial conservation prioritisation software package 'Zonation'. NPv2 attempts to efficiently rank places within Victoria in terms of their capacity to support multiple conservation assets while considering complementarity, landscape context and ecosystem integrity. NPv2 ranks birodiversity value on the following scale:
0 - Low Biodiversity Value --> 7 - High Biodiversity Value. Values of 55 & 66 relate to artificial impoundment and wetland habitat and were considere to equal 0 for the purpose of ranking terrestrial biodiversity value.

Tags: Biota, Geoscientific information, Inland waters
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Change in Vegetation Cover in Metropolitan Melbourne between 2014 and 2018

This dataset contains the percentage point change in Melbourne¿s urban vegetation cover between 2014 and 2018, represented by polygons. Each polygon is based on 2016 ABS Mesh Blocks.

It's part of a collection of data from Plan Melbourne Action 91 initiative also referred to as Cooling & Greening or Vegetation and Urban heat mapping.

https://mapshare.vic.gov.au/coolinggreening/

Tags: Biota, Environment, Structure
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Vicmap Elevation - Contour Line (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 relief features represented by lines at 1 metre intervals with some areas at 5 metres intervals. 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
Vicmap Elevation - Morphology Line

This layer is part of Vicmap Elevation 10-20 Contours & Relief, a subset of Vicmap Elevation. It contains line features delineating morphology and related features.
Includes; Embankments, Cuttings, Sand Dunes, Levees & Cliffs.

Tags: Elevation, Environment, Geoscientific information
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Basins (1:500,000), Geological Interpretation of Geophysical Features Arc

This dataset contains interpreted geological data, both units underlying the basins and magnetic (mostly volcanic) units enclosed by the basin sediments. The linear features in the data set are geological boundaries, major faults, lesser faults and dykes.

The onshore magnetic, radiometric, topographic and gravity data have been collected by the Geological Survey of Victoria. This has been supplemented by offshore magnetic and bathymetric data collected by the Australian Geological Survey Organisation and deep seismic data collected by the Australian Geological Survey Organisation and company sources.

The map attempts to reconcile the onshore geology interpreted in Simons & Moore (1999) with the geophysical responses in a way that is geologically reasonable, and to carry this interpretation offshore at least as far as the Tasmanian sea boundary (generally 39 degrees 12 minutes South). The legend broadly uses the same time breaks as that of the Pre-Permian geological map, but includes younger packages that lie beneath the basin. No attempt has been made to subdivide granitic rocks of a particular age.

The dataset is accompanied by other datasets representing lava flows and the basin edges. Lava flows have been interpreted either from intersections in drill holes or from magnetic responses.


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., & 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
Environment Mitigation polygon dataset

Under the Melbourne Strategic Assessment program, liabilities are calculated through the use of the `Environment Mitigation Dataset'. This dataset is made up of two sub-sets, the `Environment Mitigation Polygon Dataset' (this dataset) and the `Environment Mitigation Point Dataset'. The `Environment Mitigation Polygon Dataset' (this dataset) provides the habitat areas across the levy area, while the `Environment Mitigation Point Dataset' provides the point data for scattered trees. 

Liability is based on the hectares of habitat and the price for that habitat type, and the number of scattered tree location and the price for a scattered tree location. A parcel of land, or other area for which a liability is imposed, may have a liability imposed based on the coverage over that land of one or more of the following:
> Native vegetation area
> Matted Flax-lily habitat area
> Spiny Rice-flower habitat area
> Golden Sun Moth habitat area
> Growling Grass Frog habitat area
> Southern Brown Bandicoot habitat area
> Scattered tree location

Each of these are represented in the `Environment Mitigation Dataset', with the polygons for each represented in this sub-dataset.

Tags: Biota
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Melbourne Strategic Assessment Extent

This dataset provides the spatial extent of the Melbourne Strategic Assessment.

The State Government's program, as define in the 'Delivering Melbourne's Newest Sustainable Communities - Program Report' (DPCD, 2009), means the Urban Growth Boundary Review for Melbourne for the development of land, including associated transport infrastructure, within the following areas:
> investigation areas for the expansion of the 2005 Urban Growth Boundary
> areas inside the 2005 Urban Growth Boundary for which a planning scheme amendment to introduce a Precinct Structure Plan had not commenced as at 26 May 2009 (the existing 28 precincts)
> areas in the outer Metropolitan Ring Transport Corridor/E6 Road Reservation and the Regional Rail Link corridor between west of Werribee and Deer Park

In accordance with the definition of the Program, this includes Melbourne's four growth areas within the expanded 2010 Urban Growth Boundary given effect by Planning Scheme Amendment VC68. These growth areas and the 28 precincts comprise: 
> Melbourne's western growth area - Melton and Wyndham 
> Melbourne's north-western growth area - Sunbury 
> Melbourne's northern growth area - Hume, Whittlesea and Mitchell 
> Melbourne's south-eastern growth area - Casey and Cardinia.

Tags: Boundaries, Structure
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
2010 Index of Stream Condition - Vegetation Overhang polygon features

The ISC2010_VEGETATION_OVERHANG polygon features represent areas of vegetation that partially or wholly overhang the Stream Bed. The data set contains the whole vegetation polygon, not only the overhanging part of the polygon. Candidate vegetation is defined as vegetation cover greater than 20%. Vegetation Overhang has been mapped within a 200m buffer of the ISC2010_STREAMBED_WIDTH feature. This data set is derived from source Fractional Cover raster data. The data set also contains additional polygon divisions created by the introduction of Side and 200m buffer boundaries. Small polygons (<10m2) that were created by the introduction of these boundaries have been removed.

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
Urban Development Program - Industrial Land 2025

The Urban Development Program (UDP) -Industrial Land. Identifies all industrial land and the development status and size of each land parcel in hectares 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: 
*Occupied - Parcels that contain industrial or commercial buildings, container parks, informal car parking, quarries, and hardstand storage areas.
*Zoned vacant - Parcels that are zoned for industrial use but have no intensive use / visible capital investment.
*Zoned non-industrial use - Parcels that are zoned for industrial use but have an existing use /capital investment that is not industrial. Examples include residential buildings and agricultural infrastructure. Over time these are likely to be redeveloped to industrial uses.
*Unzoned - Parcels identified in strategic plans for future industrial purposes.

Tags: Planning cadastre, Structure
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Vicmap Lite - Forest Polygon

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

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

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

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

Tags: Biota, Environment
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
Vicmap Lite - State Line

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

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

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

THIS DATASET WAS LAST UPDATED IN MAY 2014

Tags: Boundaries
Organization: Department of Transport and Planning
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 & 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 & Taylor 2025.

Tags: Environment, Oceans
Organization: Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action
Victorian Coastal Cliff Assessment - Instability Areas (ASCCIE) - 2100 - 0.8m

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
VCMP Sites - Shoreline Trends

VCMP Sites - Shoreline Trends

The Shoreline Trends dataset features short-term and long-term shoreline trends across sites monitored by the Victorian Coastal Monitoring Program (VCMP) along Victoria's coastline, spatially represented as point data.

The VCMP drone survey short-term outputs include shorelines for each survey, taking the ‘shoreline’ as the +1 m AHD contour for Open Coast sites, and +0.5 m AHD contour for large bay sites.

Drone survey data collection is performed as described in Pucino et al., 2021 and Ierodiaconou et al., 2022, and outlined as:
- Data processing and quality control conducted within the Propeller platform (https://vcmp.prpellr.com), with additional manual quality control checks, to achieve a horizontal-vertical uncertainty of 0.1 m or better (Pucino et al., 2021), with output products of Digital Surface Models (DSM) and ortho-mosaics.
- Analysis is conducted using a statewide framework of 30-m spaced transects

Shoreline change trends are determined for each transect, defining a ‘short-term trend’ as being based on the last 2-years of data.

Long-term shoreline trends are obtained for the period 1988 to 2021 (34 years) using the satellite extracted, annually averaged shorelines from Digital Earth Australia (DEA) coastlines (Bishop-Taylor et al., 2021).

All shoreline data (short-term VCMP drone and long-term DEA satellite) are interpolated to the same set of 30-m spaced transects, based on the Digital Earth Australia 2019 product.

Aerial images are hosted and geo-rectified by DEECA's Coordinated Imagery Program. Based on control point checks by VCMP, newer images (approx. post-2000) are estimated to have horizontal uncertainty of 3-m or less. Older 
images (pre-2000) can have greater uncertainty, estimated at up to 10-m. Older images (<1960) 
may have larger errors (unconstrained) and should be treated with caution. 

For all shoreline data sources (UAV, DEA, aerial), trends are calculated as a simple linear regression across 
the full dataset, at each transect, for each data source. Standard deviations and 95% confidence intervals 
are also included for each data point.

Vertical uncertainty for the output digital surface model (DSM) is estimated at 0.1 m

More information about the Shoreline trend dataset and other datasets generated from the Victorian Coastal Monitoring Program can be found at https://www.marineandcoasts.vic.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0041/688397/VCMP_Sites_MetadataReport_Oct2023.pdf

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