Data produced from NVIS will be relevant to many organisations and individuals, including non-government organisations, consultants, State and Commonwealth agencies, and investors. Access to the products from NVIS will be achieved through a distributed network of sites, each managed by the custodians of the data. An overall custodian is being considered, who would have the task of providing the national synthesis of information, acting as a clearinghouse for the analysis of information for output of national data products, and for maintaining the database framework. This custodian will also explore and provide innovative technology for data analysis, storage and access. Vegetation is defined for NVIS, as natural and exotic vegetation types covering the whole landscape.
Vegetation includes the full spectrum of land management practices and land tenures.
The framework will incorporate pre- European vegetation data at the same scales. Vegetation attributes are being compiled at the sub-association level and will be amalgamated using the NVIS information hierarchy to produce fine and course scale map products to meet the requirements of clients. These data will be classified into vegetation types and combined with other datasets to provide information needed for a number of different applications. Data and information from State-wide vegetation projects will be compiled by late June 2000. Edge matching of these State-wide coverages will commence in July 2000 resulting in a national vegetation overview of vegetation in late August 2000.