Distribution: User guide - Land use of Australia 2010-11 v1.0.0

Dataset: Land use of Australia 2010-11


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This user guide provides information about the Land use of Australia 2010-11.

The Land use of Australia 2010-11 is a product of the Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program (ACLUMP). ACLUMP, coordinated by ABARES, is a collaborative cross-government approach producing land use mapping products for Australia underpinned by common technical standards. The Department of Agriculture and Water Resources is acknowledged for its financial support of the Land use of Australia 2010-11.

Agricultural land uses and their spatial distributions are based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics' 2010-11 agricultural census data. The spatial distribution of the agricultural land uses is modelled and was determined using Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) satellite imagery with training data to make agricultural land use allocations. The non-agricultural land uses are drawn from existing digital maps covering seven themes: topographic features, catchment scale land use, protected areas, World Heritage Areas, tenure, forest type and vegetation condition.

This publication (and any material sourced from it) should be attributed as:
ABARES 2016, Land Use of Australia 2010-11, ABARES, Canberra, May. CC BY 3.0.

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