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Dataset Name

Federal custodian

Dataset Description

Geocoded Addressing

Geocoded National Address File

GeoScape

G-NAF validates the captured address and makes it possible to verify a physical address and locate its position.

Geocoded Addressing

Postal Address File

Aus Post

A physical or virtual address used by a recipient for the purposes of receiving correspondence through Australia Post.

Administrative Boundaries

Jurisdictional Boundaries

GeoScape

Jurisdictional boundaries are a collection of legislative, regulatory, political and general administrative boundaries sourced from Federal, State and Territory authorities

Administrative Boundaries

Aust Statistical Geographical Standards Boundaries

ABS

The geographical boundaries that divide the area of interest on which the statistics are collected (SA1, SA2 and SA3 meshblocks).

Digital boundary files | Australian Bureau of Statistics (abs.gov.au)

Administrative Boundaries

Australian Electoral Boundaries

AEC

The geographical boundaries that divide the area of interest for the purposes of an election or referendum

Administrative Boundaries

Maritime Boundaries

GA

The delineation of the baseline from which the outer limits of the various maritime zones are measured

Positioning

Station Coordinates and Maps

GA

Coordinates of sites within the Australian Regional GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Network (ARGN), South Pacific Regional GNSS Network (SPRGN), AuScope Network and the Asia-Pacific Reference Frame (APREF).

Land Parcel and Property

Land Parcels

PSMA

Contains a seamless national database of cadastral boundaries, excluding easements and road drainage easements, and parcel identifiers which are compatible with jurisdictional land titles.

Land Parcel and Property

Land Tenure

PSMA

Hierarchical classification of land parcels; aligning land tenure classifications to cadastral parcel identifiers

Imagery

Low Resolution

GA

This imagery has been collected at the National level since the 1970s and includes MODIS, AVHRR, VIIRS sensors carried on satellites which capture image data at specific frequencies across the electromagnetic spectrum.

Imagery

Medium Resolution

GA

This imagery has been collected at the National level since 1979 and includes MSS, TM, ETM+, Aster and OLI sensors carried on satellites which capture image data at specific frequencies across the electromagnetic spectrum.

Imagery

High Resolution

GA

This imagery has been collected at a Local / Regional level since 1998, Regional level since 2005 and National level since 2009 and includes data obtained from SPOT, ALOS and HyMap sensors carried on satellites which capture image data at specific frequencies across the electromagnetic spectrum.

Imagery

Very High Resolution

Airborne imagery that has been collected at a National level from 1947-1988 and at Regional and Urban levels since the 1970s.

Transport

Roads

PSMA

Defined paths for the transfer of goods or movement of vehicles and people. They do not have fixed tracks for vehicular movement like a railway. Includes foot tracks, cycleways and ferry routes.

Transport

Railways and Railway Stations

PSMA

Transport systems using one or more rails to move vehicles carrying freight or passengers.

Transport

Airports and Airfields

PSMA

Defined areas intended to be used for the arrival, departure and surface movement of aircraft and associated cargo, and the transfer of goods and passengers from one form of transport to the air network

Transport

Navigational Aids and Obstacles - Land

GA

Variable forms of markers or devices that aid travellers in determining their position or safe course. Includes transmission lines, buildings, radio towers and masts, skyscrapers, chimneys on power plants.

Transport

Crossing

PSMA

Structures built to facilitate transport over or under another physical feature. Includes bridges, tunnels, fords, culverts and boardwalks.

Transport

Traffic Control Devices

PSMA

Structures used to control, calm, slow or impede the movement of traffic on another transport feature.

Water

Surface Hyrdology

 

The Surface Hydrology dataset provides a set of related feature classes to be used as the basis of the production of consistent hydrological information.

Water

Catchments Boundaries

GA

Catchments Boundaries represent geographic surface boundaries that have a hydrological relationship to surface hydrology features.

Water

Hydrological Obstacles

GA

Hydrological Obstructions are manmade features that impact the water network either by obstruction, diversion or storage of water.

Water

Flow Direction Grid

DAWR

A national regular grid of surface flow directions accompanying the GEODATA 9 Second Digital Elevation Model Version 3

Water

Groundwater

BOM

Nationally consistent set of groundwater boundaries and properties including aquaifer boundaries, geomertry, salinity, yield and hydraulic conductivity.

Water

Groundwater Bores

BOM

National consistent set of bores information including purpose (ie monitoring, irrigation and commercial water use) as well as lithology, construction and hydrostratigraphy logs, 2D and 3D aquifer geometry.

Water

Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems

BOM

Ecological and hydrogeological information on known groundwater dependent ecosystems and ecosystems that potentially use groundwater

Elevation and Depth

1 Second Derived DEM

GA

National DEM provides a national authoritative digital representation of the Earth’s surface

Elevation and Depth

50m Multibeam Dataset

GA

Provides and understanding of the nature of the seafloor.

Elevation and Depth

Coastal Zone

 

Various depictions of the coast ranging from lowest tide to highest tide.

Land Cover and Land Use

Dynamic Land Cover

GA

Provides nationally consistent land cover information at 250 metre resolution. It is essential to understanding and addressing a range of national challenges such as drought, salinity, water availability and ecosystem health.

Land Cover and Land Use

Fractional Ground Cover

CSIRO

The fraction of an area that covered by a specific cover type eg green or photosynthetic veg, non-photosynthetic veg (stubble, senescent herbage, leaf litter) or bare soil/rock.

Land Cover and Land Use

National Vegetation Information System

DOE

A comprehensive means of describing and representing vegetation information based on establishing relationships between structural and floristic data.

Land Cover and Land Use

National Forest Inventory

DAWR

Describes the extent and distribution of Australia's major forest types

Land Cover and Land Use

National Topographic Data

GA

Contains elements that form key constraints in defining various land cover data sets and also provides data for mapping the built environment.

Land Cover and Land Use

Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program (ACLUMP)

DAWR

Land use mapping provides nationally consistent land mapping at catchment and national level.

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