Metadata Content Title NSW 2019 Spot 6-7 Web Map ServiceContent Type Web MapDescription NSW Spot Imagery 2019 is first of a series of Bi Annual (commencing second half of 2019) Satellite Image Mosaics covering NSW with an image resolution of 1.5 metres. This imagery is captured in between January and April 2019. The state mosaic is provided as a Red Green Blue (RGB) band combination; contrast enhanced lossless 8-bit JPEG 2000 file with a word file.Initial Publication Date 11/06/2020Data Currency 12/09/2022Data Update Frequency Half-YearlyContent Source OtherFile Type Map Feature Service Attribution Data Theme, Classification or Relationship to other Datasets Accuracy Spatial Reference System (dataset) GDA94 Spatial Reference System (web service) EPSG:4326 WGS84 Equivalent To GDA94 Spatial Extent Content Lineage Data Classification UnclassifiedData Access Policy OpenData Quality Terms and Conditions Creative CommonStandard and Specification Data Custodian Spatial Services | NSW Department of Customer ServicePoint of Contact DCS Spatial Services Customer HubData Aggregator DCS Spatial ServicesData Distributor DCS Spatial ServicesAdditional Supporting Information The web service is built as per Spatial Services's project specification. WMS is OGC protocol compatible and suitable for consumption by common GIS platforms. This dataset is also compliant with the NSW Foundation Spatial Data Framework and its specifications.Dataset Producers and Contributors:Geospatial IntelligenceAirbus DS for SPOT 6/7© CNES (2020) DISTRIBUTION AIRBUS DSTRIM Number

As of 05 May 2021 this map data has been superseded for operational use by Threatened Ecological Communities Greater Sydney. The CEEC product is no longer being maintained.

These map data contain a subset of NSW and Commonwealth listed Critically Endangered Ecological Communities (CEEC) within NSW. Version 6.0 (February 2020) contains minor adjustments to reflect change in NSW listing status of Sydney Turpentine-Ironbark Forest in the Sydney Basin Bioregion from EEC to CEEC. Version 1 only contained NSW CEECs. Further details regarding the updating of previous versions are provided under Lineage.

This composite map was derived from the extraction of relevant vegetation map units contained in a variety of existing vegetation maps held in the Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) VIS (Vegetation Information System) Map Catalogue. Please note that not all Listed CEECs are currently represented in this dataset. Reasons include:

1. the CEEC has not yet been mapped;
2. the CEEC has been mapped but the source data are not yet openly available (see Supplemental Information for details).

Further CEECs may be added in future versions of this dataset.

Note, there is no formal process in place to guarantee correction in the source maps that are transferred to this composite map product.

Ecological communities are included in the critically endangered category of the Threatened Species Conservation Act, 1995, if they are facing an extremely high risk of extinction in NSW in the immediate future. Critically Endangered is also a category under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act, 1999.

Land and Property Information (LPI’s) Cached map service is a rasterised topographic maps covering NSW. This service contains the current standard Topographic maps from the 1:100,000; 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 series. Where coverage exists at multiple scales the largest scale map is displayed. It compromises the “collars off” tiff images for the current (1:100000, 1:50000 and 1:25000) Topo maps, and replaces the old “Topographic maps (Current Series)” shown in the old six viewer. Land and Property Information (LPI’s) Cached map service is a rasterised topographic maps covering NSW. This service contains the current standard Topographic maps from the 1:100,000; 1:50,000 and 1:25,000 series. Where coverage exists at multiple scales the largest scale map is displayed. It compromises the “collars off” tiff images for the current (1:100000, 1:50000 and 1:25000) Topo maps, and replaces the old “Topographic maps (Current Series)” shown in the old six viewer.

The 2017 Landuse captures how the landscape in NSW is being used for food production, forestry, nature conservation, infrastructure and urban development. It can be used to monitor changes in the landscape and identify impacts on biodiversity values and individual ecosystems.

The NSW 2017 Landuse mapping is dated September 2017.

This is version 1.5 of the dataset, published December 2023.

Version 1.5 of the 2017 Landuse incorporates the following updates:

• Fine scale mapping of the Central Coast, Illawarra and Shoalhaven regions
• Mapping enhancements to regional centres to improve the mapping accuracy for these centres
• NSW road network based on road centreline data from Transport NSW, with standardised buffer applied to approximate the carriage width based on the road type
• Plantation type (native hardwood and softwood) information within State Forest Estates
• Horticulture data to tertiary or commodity level present in September 2017 from Australian Tree Crop Map Dashboard developed by University of New England - Applied Agricultural Remote Sensing Centre https://www.une.edu.au/research/research-centres-institutes/applied-agricultural-remote-sensing-centre/collaborative-r-and-d-opportunities/industry-applications-and-maps
• Fixes to identified errors since published version 1.2

Previous Versions *Version 1.4 internal update (not published) * Version 1.3 internal update (not published) * Version 1.2 published 24 June 2020 - Fine scale update to Greater Sydney Metropolitan Area * Version 1 published August 2019

The 2017 Landuse is based on Aerial imagery and Satellite imagery available for NSW. These include, but not limited to; digital aerial imagery (ADS) captured by NSW Department of Customer Service (DCS), high resolution urban (Conurbation) digital aerial imagery captured on behalf of DCS, SPOT 5, 6 & 7(Airbus), Planet™, Sentinel 2 (European Space Agency) and LANDSAT (NASA) Satellite Imagery. Mapping also includes commercially available imagery from Nearmap™ and Google Earth™, along with Google Street View™.

Mapping takes into consideration ancillary datasets such as tenure such as National Parks and State forests, cadastre, roads parcels, land zoning, topographic information and Google Maps, in conjunction with visual interpretation and field validation of patterns and features on the ground.

The 2017 Landuse was captured on screen using ARC GIS (Geographical Information Software) at a scale of 1:8,000 scale (or better) and features are mapped down to 2 hectares in size. Exceptions were made for targeted Landuse classes such as horticulture, intensive animal husbandry and urban environments, which were mapped at a finer scale.

The 2017 Landuse has complete coverage of NSW. It also includes updates to the fine scale Horticulture mapping for the east coast of NSW - Newcastle to the Queensland boarder and Murray-Riverina Region. This horticultural mapping includes operations to the commodity level based on field work and high-resolution imagery interpretation.

Landuse classes assigned are based on activities that have occurred in the last 5-10 years that may be part of a rotational practice. Time-series LANDSAT information has been used in conjunction with more recent Satellite Imagery to determine whether grasslands have been disturbed or subject to ongoing land management activities over the past 30 years.

The 2017 Landuse was captured on screen using ARC GIS (Geographical Information Software) at a scale of 1:8,000 scale (or better) and features are mapped down to 2 hectares in size. Exceptions were made for targeted Landuse classes such as horticulture, intensive animal husbandry and urban environments (including Greater Sydney Metropolitan region), which were mapped at a finer scale.

The reliability scale of the dataset is 1:10,000.

Mapping has been subject to a peer review and quality assurance process.

Land use information has been captured in accordance with standards set by the Australian Collaborative Land Use Mapping Program (ACLUMP) and using the Australian Land Use and Management ALUM Classification Version 8. The ALUM classification is based upon the modified Baxter & Russell classification and presented according to the specifications contained in http://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/aclump/land-use/alum-classification.

This product will be incorporated in the National Catchment scale land use product 2020 that will be available as a 50m raster - Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) http://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/aclump/land-use/data-download

The Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE) will continue to complete land use mapping at approximately 5-year intervals.

The 2017 Landuse product is considered as a benchmark product that can be used for Landuse change reporting. Ongoing improvements to the 2017 Landuse product will be undertaken to correct errors or additional improvements to the mapping.

Temperate Highland Peat Swamps on Sandstone (THPSS) vegetation maps. THPSS is a Threatened Ecological Community (TEC). Using a 25 m Digital Elevation Modal (DEM) coupled with orthorectified aerial photography, the THPSS of the Sydney Basin were mapped in ArcGIS. Only valley-bottom swamps were mapped. Hanging swamps or hillslope drapes were excluded. In ArcGIS, the physical attributes of the swamps were attributed and measured. This included swamp area, elevation above sea level, swamp slope, catchment area, swamp and catchment elongation ratio, swamp length and distance to coast. Further information on the enforceable undertaking and the terms of the THPSS Research Program can be found at www.environment.gov.au/news/2011/10/21/centennial-coal-fund-145-million-research-program. Attribution to: Macquarie University, K Fryirs & G Hose 2016, THPSS mapping layer. 6 maps showing the spatial distribution of THPSS were produced for the following areas: Blue Mountains - VIS_ID 4480 Budderoo - VIS_ID 4481 Gosford - VIS_ID 4482 Newnes - VIS_ID 4483 Woronora - VIS_ID 4484 Penrose - VIS_ID 4485

Abstract This raster dataset provides the latest summary information on Australia's present (extant) native vegetation, which has been classified into Major Vegetation Groups. It is in Albers Equal Area projection with a 100 m x 100 m (1 Ha) cell size. A comparable Pre-1750 (pre-European, pre-clearing) raster dataset is available. For this update, Version 6.0, the extant datasets for Queensland, Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Western Australia have been updated. An automated, data-driven procedure, followed by thorough manual checks, was undertaken to make any necessary updates to MVG/MVS assignments for WA, VIC, NT, SA and NSW, with any changes being verified by the corresponding state/territory contacts. For Version 5.1 the extant dataset for Tasmania was updated, with gapfilling work being completed for the NSW extant dataset. Some of the rulesets underpinning the assignment of MVGs and MVSs were also updated to improve consistency for their allocation. Version 5.0 substantially standardised the lookup tables (NVIS5_0_LUT_DETAILxxxx and NVIS5_0_LUT_AUST_FLATxxxx). Previously, Version 4.2 updated NSW. For version 4.1 most agencies supplied data to the update. For more detail refer to the associate lookup tables. Summaries were derived from the best available data in the NVIS extant theme. This product is derived from a compilation of data collected at different scales on different dates by different organisations. Please refer to the separate Key Dataset map showing scales of the input datasets 'NVIS6_0_KEY_DSET_xxx'. Gaps in the NVIS database were filled by non-NVIS data, notably parts of South Australia and small areas of New South Wales such as the Curlewis area. The data represent on-ground dates of up to 2006 in Queensland, 2001 to 2005 in South Australia (depending on the region) and 2004/5 in other jurisdictions, except NSW. NVIS data was partially updated in NSW with 2001-09 data, with extensive areas of 1997 data remaining from the earlier version of NVIS. Major Vegetation Groups were identified to summarise the type and distribution of Australia's native vegetation. The classification contains different mixes of plant species within the canopy, shrub or ground layers, but are structurally similar and are often dominated by a single genus. In a mapping sense, the groups reflect the dominant vegetation occurring in a map unit where there are a mix of several vegetation types. Subdominant vegetation groups which may also be present in the map unit are not shown. For example, the dominant vegetation in an area may be mapped as dominated by eucalypt open forest, although it contains pockets of rainforest, shrubland and grassland vegetation as subdominants. A number of other non-vegetation and non-native vegetation land cover types are also represented as Major Vegetation Groups. These are provided for cartographic purposes, but should not be used for analyses. The (related) Major Vegetation Subgroups represent the dominant vegetation groups in the dominant stratum, along with the dominant shrub or ground layer,and are available as separate raster datasets. For further background and other NVIS products, please see the links at: http://www.environment.gov.au/land/native-vegetation/national-vegetation-information-system. Currency Date modified: 10 December 2020 Modification frequency: None Data extent Spatial extent North: -8.139869° South: -44.318646° East: 157.215737° West: 109.504356° Temporal extent From 28 January 2016 to 10 December 2020 Source information This dataset is provided by the Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Map Server Metadata Public listing

Lineage statement NVIS Version 6.0 Spatial datasets were updated for Western Australia, South Australia, Queensland and Australian Capital Territory. Non-spatial updates have been made to all these states except WA, due to problems encountered with non-aligning mosaicked Map Units between the NVIS database and the non-spatial data supplied on the WA government portal. Hence, the original non-spatial data has been used in conjunction with the new spatial data for this state. For Queensland, updates were made predominantly to the MVG/MVS allocation as supplied directly by the state, with the existing Level 6 to Level 1 heirarchy mostly remaining unchanged from the existing database. However, a total of 567 L6 to L1 descriptions were updated in accordance with the Regional Ecosystem technical descriptions on the Qld Government portal. For the remaining states and territories the Version 5.1 spatial and non-spatial data was reused. The VICTA tool (an automated, data-driven procedure with embedded rulesets) was run to make any necessary updates to MVG/MVS assignments for WA, VIC, NT, SA and NSW, followed by necessary manual QA checks. This resulted in some changes to L6 and L5 descriptions. Any changes made to the existing L5/L6 descriptions were verified by the corresponding state/territory contacts. Detailed lineage information is available via the Metadata listing. Data dictionary This dataset comprises defined areas with vegetation types only. All layers

Attribute name Vegetation Types

Major Vegetation Group Acacia Forests and Woodlands Acacia Open Woodlands Acacia Shrublands Callitris Forests and Woodlands Casuarina Forests and Woodlands Chenopod Shrublands, Samphire Shrublands and Forblands Cleared, non-native vegetation, buildings Eucalypt Low Open Forests Eucalypt Open Forests Eucalypt Open Woodlands Eucalypt Tall Open Forests Eucalypt Woodlands Heathlands Hummock Grasslands Inland aquatic - freshwater, salt lakes, lagoons Low Closed Forests and Tall Closed Shrublands Mallee Open Woodlands and Sparse Mallee Shrublands Mallee Woodlands and Shrublands Mangroves Melaleuca Forests and Woodlands Naturally bare - sand, rock, claypan, mudflat Other Forests and Woodlands Other Grasslands, Herblands, Sedgelands and Rushlands Other Open Woodlands Other Shrublands Rainforests and Vine Thickets Regrowth, modified native vegetation Sea and estuaries Tropical Eucalypt Woodlands/Grasslands Tussock Grasslands Unclassified Forest Unclassified native vegetation Unknown/no data

Contact Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, GeoSpatial@dcceew.gov.au

PLEASE NOTE: This dataset has been superseded by NSW Landuse 2017 v1.5 The 2017 Landuse captures how the landscape in NSW is being used for food production, forestry, nature conservation, …Show full descriptionPLEASE NOTE: This dataset has been superseded by NSW Landuse 2017 v1.5 The 2017 Landuse captures how the landscape in NSW is being used for food production, forestry, nature conservation, infrastructure and urban development. It can be used to monitor changes in the landscape and identify impacts on biodiversity values and individual ecosystems. The NSW 2017 Landuse mapping is dated September 2017. It incorporates tenure based information for National Parks and State Forests in NSW, at the time of mapping. It currently does not include the Greater Sydney Metropolitan Region. Greater Sydney region will be completed in late 2019 and will be incorporated into the NSW 2017 land use product version 1.1. The NSW Landuse 2013, currently contains the best available information for the Greater Sydney region. https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/nsw-landuse-2013 The 2017 Landuse has complete coverage of all regional centres and towns for NSW. It also includes updates to the fine scale Horticulture mapping for the east coast of NSW - Newcastle to the Queensland boarder. This horticultural mapping includes operations to the commodity level based on field work and high resolution imagery interpretation. The reliability scale is 1:10,000 and include values in the attribute fields of Source, Source Date, Source Scale, Reliability and LU Mapping (Currency) Date. Land use has been mapped on high resolution aerial imagery including ADS (digital imagery) captured by NSW Department of Finance, Service and Innovation, along with using Nearmap, Google Earth and Google Street View. Satellite imagery from LANDSAT (NASA), Sentinel 2 (European Space Agency), SPOT 5, 6 and 7(Airbus) and Planet Imagery, was used in the mapping process to account for Landuse activities that occur as part of a rotational practise. Land use information has been captured in accordance with standards set by the Australian Collaborative Land Use Mapping Program (ACLUMP) and using the Australian Land Use and Management ALUM Classification Version 8. The ALUM classification is based upon the modified Baxter & Russell classification and presented according to the specifications contained in http://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/aclump/land-use/alum-classification. This product will be incorporated in the National Catchment scale land use product 2018 that will be available as a 50m raster - Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) http://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/aclump/land-use/data-download

This dataset contains summaries of NSW Department of Primary Industries (DPI) logbook data on effort distribution for NSW commercial fisheries in state marine and estuarine waters. The logbook data has been recorded and submitted to NSW DPI by commercial fishers. https://www.dpi.nsw.gov.au/fishing/commercial/catch-effort The data are aggregated to produce summaries of total effort by gear type (summarised across fishery), over 5 year periods and at a 0.1 degree resolution where 6 boats or more operate. All effort information has been removed for areas where less than 6 boats operate and these areas are mapped to a 1 degree resolution. The 5 year period (2011-2015) corresponds to State of Environment (SoE) Reporting, required under the EPBC Act 1999. Each map layer is labelled by the years aggregated (“2015” for 2011-2015) and the gear type (“GNMN” = gillnet and mesh net). The gear codes and aggregated fisheries and the shape file field descriptions are listed separately in the Supplemental Information section. The data were supplied for the purpose of research being undertaken by CSIRO under the National Environmental Science Programme (NESP) Marine Biodiversity Hub to produce an interactive map of pressures on the marine environment (at a broad spatial scale) that will enable a systematic understanding of the different pressures acting in different areas. The State of New South Wales, the Department of Primary Industries, its employees, officers, agents or servants are not responsible for the result of any actions taken on the basis of the information contained on the map, or for any errors, omissions or inaccuracies that may occur on this map. NSW Department of Industry disclaims, to the extent permitted by law, all warranties, representations or endorsements, express or implied, with regard to the map and summary data including but not limited to, all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement. NSW Department of Industry further does not warrant or accept any liability in relation to the quality, operability or accuracy of the map and summary data.

This dataset provides WCAG 2.0 compliant wayfinding maps for 13 Metro Stations along the Metro North West Line, including 8 new metro stations and 5 upgraded stations.

Metro services are high-frequency, driverless trains, which can quickly take you between stations operating every 4 minutes in peak times.

Each map displays the transport connections, customer assistance available, facilities available, tap on / tap off points, and lift / escalator locations.

The line is being extended into the Sydney CBD and beyond, in 2024.

Note:

• 13 new WCAG 2.0 compliant wayfinding maps have been added for the Chatswood to Sydenham extension, including 6 new station & local area maps and 7 existing station & local area maps in July 2024.

• The M1 route, Metro North West & Bankstown Line will commence operations August 2024.

Access API

NSW Imagery Web Service
Note: Export function is for the Mosaic Index only

Please Note
WGS 84 service aligned to GDA94
This dataset has spatial reference [WGS 84 ≈ GDA94] which may result in misalignments when viewed in GDA2020 environments. A similar service with a ‘multiCRS’ suffix is available which can support GDA2020, GDA94 and WGS 84 ≈ GDA2020 environments.

The NSW Imagery web map service provides spatial imagery covering the extent of NSW. It depicts current cached imagery map of NSW which includes the following data sets:

• LandSat 2014® satellite imagery
• Spatial Services standard coverage ADS sensor orthorectified imagery
• Spatial Services high resolution ADS sensor town imagery
• Spatial Services high resolution ADS sensor project imagery
• AAM 2012 Tweed orthorectified imagery
• AAM 2012 Sydney conurbation 10cm GSD orthorectified imagery
• Jacobs 2009 Upper Hunter AUSIMAGE® orthophoto imagery
• Jacobs 2004 Queanbeyan AUSIMAGE® orthophoto imagery
• Jacobs 2006 Yass AUSIMAGE® orthophoto imagery
• Jacobs 2002 Goulburn AUSIMAGE® orthophoto imagery
• Jacobs 2014 AUSIMAGE® orthophoto imagery
• Jacobs 2016 AUSIMAGE® orthophoto imagery
• Spookfish/Eagleview 2018 Imagery
• Six Cities Conurbation AAM Imagery 2020-2022
• Six Cities Conurbation Aerometrex Imagery 2021-2022

The NSW Imagery web service provides spatial imagery covering the extent of NSW progressively from scales larger than 1:150,000 higher resolution imagery overlays lower resolution imagery and most recent imagery overlays older imagery within each resolution.

This product has been produced to identify visible land cover features and terrain to support Spatial Services along with local and state government programs, including Emergency Services. This product is used on a whole of government basis as a visible record of the landscape at a given point in time.

This web service allows users to easily integrate the Imagery coverage for NSW into Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) compliant spatial platforms and applications.

Imagery provides an analytical source and contextual background for decision making and supports multiple applications including:

• mapping
• emergency services
• sustainable human and land use development
• geosciences
• natural resource management

The NSW Imagery web service provides access to accurate, authoritative and timely aerial imagery of NSW.

This service ensures users are able to consume spatial imagery without the requirement of hosting the imagery files on their own servers. The Imagery cache is maintained by Spatial Services and is an output of Spatial Services’ imagery collection and maintenance program.

This record is now superseded. The current record for ‘Transitional – Vulnerable Regulated Land' can be viewed here.

Vulnerable Regulated Land layer is a component of the Native Vegetation Regulatory Map (NVR Map). NVR Map was prepared by Department of Planning Industry and Environment (DPIE) under Part 5A of the Local Land Services Act 2013 (LLS Act) and supporting Local Land Services Regulation 2014. Vulnerable Regulated Land layer indicates where clearing of native vegetation may not be permitted under the Land Management (Native Vegetation) Code 2017, and a limited suite of allowable activities apply) The 2019 Annual Review of the transitional NVR map was published on 22 November 2019. Please read below for details about changes occurring as a result of the 2019 Annual Review. The latest version of the map can be viewed online using the NVR Map Viewer.

Vulnerable Regulated Land comprised of three layers. These being:

• Vulnerable Riparian. Generated from the NSW Hydroline and HydroArea dataset, natural named watercourses were used to capture streams with a buffer applied to both watercourses and water-bodies. Three datasets have been generated by creating buffers in the original dataset.

A 20-meter buffer was used for both sides of the bank to represent the no-clearing boundary within the banks of major streams, lakes and lagoons. The buffer polygon created includes the bed of the stream, lakes and lagoons.

A 22.5-meter buffer was applied on either side streams mapped by hydroline. It was assumed that the average stream width for a stream represented by a stream centre line is 5m.

For minor streams mapped by hydroline, a 10m buffer was applied either side of the stream.

• Steep or Highly Erodible Land is a combination of data layers including:

Vulnerable steep or highly erodible, which is generated from Topographic 3-dimensional 25 meters grid data derived from contour and drainage data sourced from the New South Wales Topographic Map Archive (pre1995), predominantly 10 meters and 20 meters contours used as source data; and

A slopes layer, generated from Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) 30m >= 18-degree slope (https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/srtm18).

• Special Category Land. A selection of land susceptible to erosion or land that is otherwise environmentally sensitive, such as mass movement and salinity.

Changes to the mapping of Vulnerable Regulated Land introduced in the publish of the Revised Transitional NVR Map on 22 November 2019 have resulted from the inclusion of rural lands zoned as RU3 (Forestry) as land subject to the LLS Act and otherwise determined as category 2 – vulnerable regulated lands

The data is provided as multi value raster that identifies the Vulnerable Regulated Land, Sensitive Regulated Land and Where Sensitive and Vulnerable Land overlaps.

Pixel values:

3 - Vulnerable Regulated Land

4 - Sensitive Regulated Land

6 - Where Sensitive and Vulnerable Regulated Land overlap (display class)

Spatial datasets compiled in the Vulnerable Regulated Land layer are sourced from Department Planning Industry and Environment.

Data on the NVR viewer is updated on a monthly basis for Landholder initiated Map Reviews and other minor data changes. https://www.lmbc.nsw.gov.au/Maps/index.html?viewer=NVRMap

Data available for download was last updated on 25th May 2020.

Please contact Department of Planning Industry and Environment data broker on data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au for additional information.

Digital soil maps (DSMs) are prepared through quantitative modelling techniques that are based on relationships between soil attributes and the environment. DSMs are presented over NSW for a range of key soil properties, including soil organic carbon (SOC), pH, cation exchange capacity, sum-of-bases, total phosphorous, electrical conductivity (EC), exchangeable sodium percent (ESP), clay, sand and silt. The maps are at 100 m spatial resolution and cover six soil depth intervals down to 2 m, consistent with standard international systems, plus 0-30 cm and 30-100 cm layers. The modelling techniques applied included multiple linear regression and Cubist decision tree approaches. Validation results for the maps indicate generally moderate performance and effectiveness. The maps provide at least a useful first approximation of these soil properties across the State. The products are described more fully in the technical report: OEH (2018), Digital soil mapping of key soil properties over NSW, version 1.2 (40p). The 0-30 and 30-100 cm raster layers, plus 0-5 cm rasters for textural properties (660 and 840 MB zip files) or jpeg images (63 MB zip file) can be downloaded through the NSW SEED data portal. They are also viewable through eSPADE (http://espade.environment.nsw.gov.au). The full suite of depth layers for all soil properties are available through the OEH data broker .

This is Version 1 of the Australian Soil Total Phosphorus product of the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia.

The Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia has produced a range of digital soil attribute products. Each product contains six digital soil attribute maps, and their upper and lower confidence limits, representing the soil attribute at six depths: 0-5cm, 5-15cm, 15-30cm, 30-60cm, 60-100cm and 100-200cm. These depths are consistent with the specifications of the GlobalSoilMap.net project (http://www.globalsoilmap.net/). The digital soil attribute maps are in raster format at a resolution of 3 arc sec (~90 x 90 m pixels).

These maps are generated by combining the best available Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) products available across Australia.

Attribute Definition: Total phosphorus; Units: %; Period (temporal coverage; approximately): 1950-2013; Spatial resolution: 3 arc seconds (approx 90m); Total number of gridded maps for this attribute: 18; Number of pixels with coverage per layer: 2007M (49200 * 40800); Total size before compression: about 8GB; Total size after compression: about 4GB; Data license : Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY); Target data standard: GlobalSoilMap specifications; Format: GeoTIFF. Lineage: The National Soil Attribute Maps are generated by combining the best available digital soil mapping to calculate a variance weighted mean for each pixel. For this soil attribute the Australia-wide three-dimensional Digital Soil Property Maps are the only maps available. Thus the modelling for this soil attribute only used Decision trees with piecewise linear models with kriging of residuals developed from soil site data across Australia. (Viscarra Rossel et al., 2015a).

This raster dataset NVIS6_0_AUST_EXT_MVG_ALB (or aus6_0e_mvg in GRID format) provides the latest summary information on Australia's present (extant) native vegetation, which has been classified into Major Vegetation Groups. It is in Albers Equal Area projection with a 100 m x 100 m (1 Ha) cell size.Download: - Australia - Present Major Vegetation Groups - NVIS Version 6.0 (Albers 100m analysis product) - Grid Download - Overview (arcgis.com) A comparable Pre-1750 (pre-European, pre-clearing) raster dataset is available:- NVIS6_0_AUST_PRE_MVG_ALB (or aus6_0p_mvg in GRID format).For this update, Version 6.0, the extant datasets for Queensland, Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Western Australia have been updated. An automated, data-driven procedure, followed by thorough manual checks, was undertaken to make any necessary updates to MVG/MVS assignments for WA, VIC, NT, SA and NSW, with any changes being verified by the corresponding state/territory contacts. For Version 5.1 the extant dataset for Tasmania was updated, with gapfilling work being completed for the NSW extant dataset. Some of the rulesets underpinning the assignment of MVGs and MVSs were also updated to improve consistency for their allocation. Version 5.0 substantially standardised the lookup tables (NVIS5_0_LUT_DETAILxxxx and NVIS5_0_LUT_AUST_FLATxxxx). Previously, Version 4.2 updated NSW. For version 4.1 most agencies supplied data to the update. For more detail refer to the associate lookup tables.Summaries were derived from the best available data in the NVIS extant theme. This product is derived from a compilation of data collected at different scales on different dates by different organisations. Please refer to the separate Key Dataset map showing scales of the input datasets 'NVIS6_0_KEY_DSET_xxx'.Gaps in the NVIS database were filled by non-NVIS data, notably parts of South Australia and small areas of New South Wales such as the Curlewis area. The data represent on-ground dates of up to 2006 in Queensland, 2001 to 2005 in South Australia (depending on the region) and 2004/5 in other jurisdictions, except NSW. NVIS data was partially updated in NSW with 2001-09 data, with extensive areas of 1997 data remaining from the earlier version of NVIS.Major Vegetation Groups were identified to summarise the type and distribution of Australia's native vegetation. The classification contains different mixes of plant species within the canopy, shrub or ground layers, but are structurally similar and are often dominated by a single genus. In a mapping sense, the groups reflect the dominant vegetation occurring in a map unit where there are a mix of several vegetation types. Subdominant vegetation groups which may also be present in the map unit are not shown. For example, the dominant vegetation in an area may be mapped as dominated by eucalypt open forest, although it contains pockets of rainforest, shrubland and grassland vegetation as subdominants.A number of other non-vegetation and non-native vegetation land cover types are also represented as Major Vegetation Groups. These are provided for cartographic purposes, but should not be used for analyses.The (related) Major Vegetation Subgroups represent the dominant vegetation groups in the dominant stratum, along with the dominant shrub or ground layer,and are available as separate raster datasets:- NVIS6_0_AUST_EXT_MVS_ALB- NVIS6_0_AUST_PRE_MVS_ALBFor further background and other NVIS products, please see the links at:https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/native-vegetation/national-vegetation-information-system

Abstract

This data and its metadata statement were supplied to the Bioregional Assessment Programme by a third party and are represented here as originally supplied.

Abstract: The Biodiversity Investment Opportunities Map (BIO Map) is a key deliverable of the NSW Government's $40 million Green Corridors program, a Government priority action identified in NSW 2021: A Plan to make NSW number one. The map was prepared with funding provided by the NSW Environmental Trust. The Illawarra BIO Map covers a 112,942-hectare area defined by the Kiama, Shellharbour and Wollongong Local Government Areas. This includes the Illawarra coastal plain and escarpment, and the eastern parts of the sandstone plateau to the west. Each of these landscapes provides a diversity of vegetation types, habitats and landforms, which combined make the region rich in overall biodiversity values. Mapping criteria were used to identify and map priority investment areas, and targeted stakeholder consultation was conducted to inform the outputs of the project. Stakeholders consulted included nine state government authorities, four local councils and six non-government organisations. The priority investment areas comprise of biodiversity core areas and a network of state and regional biodiversity corridors within the Illawarra region. The total area represented within the mapped priority investment areas is 66,827 hectares, comprising 13,980 hectares of core area and 52,847 hectares of corridors. This represents about 59 per cent of the Illawarra region. The BIO Map project aims to achieve better biodiversity outcomes by directing biodiversity investment funding to the strategic locations of greatest benefit. A landholder's right to carry out agricultural and developmental activities on their land are not altered by their property being identified as a priority investment area on the BIO Map. The BIO Map identifies areas where landowners have more opportunities to receive funding to protect their bushland. Any involvement by a landowner in such programs is entirely voluntary. Report Title: Biodiversity Investment Opportunities Map Mapping Priority Investment Areas for the Illawarra Region

Dataset History

This data and its metadata statement were supplied to the Bioregional Assessment Programme by a third party and are represented here as originally supplied.

Lineage: Lineage: Core areas are areas of native vegetation and habitat where management will be of greatest benefit to the conservation of state and regional biodiversity values within a region. Combined with state and regional corridors, the areas are termed Priority Investment Areas (PIAs) PIAs were mapped from a combination of existing and established data and from new data layers created specifically for the project. To identify core areas, a seamless vegetation layer was made from 20 separate fine-scale vegetation maps. Vegetation types were then assigned to a single, state-wide classification (i.e. Plant Community Type) and to Threatened Ecological Communities listed in NSW. Core areas were defined as contiguous patches (separated by 30 metres or less) of Threatened Ecological Communities greater than 10 hectares in size. Threatened ecological communities were identified by mapping the associations of PCTs with the NSW Scientific Committee determinations of threatened communities. Land was removed from core areas in cases where it was deemed likely to be affected by development; this included land zoned for urban land uses or areas where land-use intensification or fragmentation was likely. As a general rule, land zoned residential (e.g. R1 to R4 under a standard LEP, or equivalent), industrial (e.g. IN1 to IN4) or business (e.g. B1 to B7) was removed from core areas. Zoning data were obtained from LEPs in force throughout the study area. After stakeholder consultation and feedback, these areas were then refined into fine-scale boundaries based on either property or vegetation boundaries. The boundaries identified focused on capturing entire patches of the vegetation type identified, not just the amount needed to meet the minimum representation target. Therefore, the areas of some vegetation types significantly exceeded their targets. Targeted stakeholder consultation informed and improved the outputs of the project. Nine state government authorities, four local councils and six non-government organisations were engaged to comment on the draft map. Suggestions from stakeholders were assessed against the mapping criteria and (where appropriate) were incorporated into the final BIO Map. Six core areas added to, or expanded, on the basis of stakeholder feedback and the incorporation of more accurate local information. The total area represented within the mapped PIAs is 66 827 hectares, comprising 13 980 hectares of core area and 52 847 hectares of corridors. This represents about 59% of the Illawarra region. Positional accuracy: Digitising was conducted at a scale of approximately 1:10,000-1:15,000. Attribute accuracy: All attributes have been checked. Completeness: The layer is complete. The layer will require periodic updating to account for any clearing or vegtetation change resulting from future landuse activites.

Dataset Citation

NSW Office of Environment and Heritage (2015) Illawarra Region BIO Map Corridors 20150430. Bioregional Assessment Source Dataset. Viewed 18 June 2018, http://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/dataset/edd25bee-de70-47ba-a3af-b6f08846fdfa.

The transitional NVR map was prepared by Department Planning and Environment under Part 5A of the amended Local Land Services Act 2013 (LLS Act) and supporting regulation.

On the 25th of August 2017 the transitional NVR Map was published under transitional arrangements set out in 60F of the LLS Act.

The current published version of the transitional NVR Map (version 11) was published on 23 March 2022. The transitional NVR Map currently displays category 2 – vulnerable regulated land, category 2 – sensitive regulated land and land that is excluded from the LLS Act. The latest version of the map can be viewed online using the NVR Map Viewer.

The transitional NVR Map has been developed to underpin the new land management framework. The transitional NVR Map essentially tells you where the land management code and allowable activities are either limited or not available.

Understanding the map categories.

Currently, the transitional NVR map viewer displays displays category 2 – vulnerable regulated land, category 2 – sensitive regulated land and land that is excluded from the LLS Act. Mapping for category 1 - exempt land and category 2- regulated land are yet to be published.

Broadly, category 1 - exempt land is land that was cleared of native vegetation as at 1 January 1990, or land that was lawfully cleared between 1 January 1990 and 25 August 2017. Category 2 - regulated land is land that was not cleared as at 1 January 1990, was unlawfully cleared after 1 January 1990, or is a prescribed area with an identified environmental value. Land is mapped to each category on the basis of past clearing or disturbance events, as detected by satellite and aerial imagery, and updated land use data. Prescribed areas with an identified environmental value are mapped as category 2 - regulated land, overriding a category 1 - regulated land designation based on the mapping.

Transitional NVR map – land categories and map the 6 colour code

Category definition

1. Category 1 - exempt land (Blue) Unrestricted management (exempt). Rural lands where clearing of native vegetation is not regulated by Part 5A of the LLS Act 2013.This includes land cleared or significantly disturbed as at 1 January 1990 or lawfully cleared between that date and commencement of Part 5A of the LLS Act 2013. Other legislation may apply to category 1 - exempt land.

2. Category 2 - regulated land (Yellow) Code based management (regulated). Rural lands where clearing is regulated and can be carried out in accordance with Part 5A of the LLS Act 2013 or other legislation. This includes complying with the codes and allowable activities. Land not cleared as at 1 January 1990, land unlawfully cleared since 1 January 1990, and land subject to existing conservation obligations including remedial directions.

3. Category 2 - vulnerable regulated land (Orange) Regulated (vulnerable). Rural land where clearing of native vegetation is more restricted than on other category 2 land. This includes steep and highly erodible lands, riparian land and special category land (as declared).

4. Category 2 - sensitive regulated land (Pink) Regulated (sensitive). Rural land where clearing of native vegetation is more restricted than other category 2 land. This includes lands that are sensitive lands due to factors such as the presence of coastal wetlands, certain rainforests, core koala habitat, high conservation grasslands, critically endangered entities, land subject to conservation or incentive agreements or covenants and others.

5. Category 2 - sensitive and vulnerable regulated lands areas of overlap (Brown) This map class depicts land where category 2 vulnerable regulated land [(Vulnerable) - Orange] and category 2 - sensitive regulated [(Sensitive) - Pink] overlap.

6. Land excluded from the LLS Act - (Grey) Land not regulated by Part 5A of the LLS Act 2013. This land includes urban zones, environmental conservation zones and R5 large lot residential as gazetted under a Local Environment Plan (LEP). It also includes public conservation lands (such as National parks and State Forests) and number of entire councils in the Sydney metro area.

Please refer to the Method Statement for more details https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/-/media/OEH/Corporate-Site/Documents/Animals-and-plants/Biodiversity/native-vegetation-regulatory-map-method-statement-170495.pdf?la=en&hash=7E4AF9410B2B65E1C5B2FFB6218AF502BB6989C3

For more information on the transitional NVR map, updates, version history and contact for enquiries, please visit the transitional NVR Map web page:

https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/topics/animals-and-plants/biodiversity/native-vegetation-regulatory-map

Impervious surfaces were derived from two existing mapping products, producing six classes of impervious area: Buildings, Roads, Railways, Roads and Railways, Airports and Aerodromes, Stormwater Infrastructure. Impervious Surfaces associated with buildings were derived from the Geoscape® Buildings Theme, which provides polygon representations of every building in Australia with a roof area equal to or greater than 9m2. Building polygons from the Greater Sydney Region were extracted and used to create the ‘Buildings’ feature. Impervious Surfaces not associated with buildings were derived from the NSW Land Use Map 2017 (inclusive of the draft Land Use Mapping for the Sydney Metropolitan Region), which provides land use mapping for NSW at a 1:10,000 reliability scale, based on the Australian Land Use and Management Classification Code. This layer was used to generate the Roads, Railways, Roads and Railways (polygons reclassified during QC) Airports and Aerodromes, and Stormwater Infrastructure features. Once both sets of features had been generated, they were intersected with LGA to aid in computation and provide additional map utility. Following this, any overlap between the Buildings features and the Land Use features was corrected using the Erase Function, before the layers were combined using the union function, and dissolved by LGA and feature class to provide LGA-level breakdowns of the prevalence and providence of impervious areas.

This raster dataset NVIS6_0_AUST_PRE_MVG_ALB (or aus6_0p_mvg in GRID format) provides the latest summary information on Australia's Pre-1750 (pre-European, pre-clearing) native vegetation, which has been classified into Major Vegetation Groups (MVG). It is in Albers Equal Area projection with a 100 m x 100 m (1 Ha) cell size.Download: - Australia - Pre-1750 Major Vegetation Groups - NVIS Version 6.0 (Albers 100m analysis product) - Grid Download - Overview (arcgis.com) A comparable present (extant) raster dataset is available:- NVIS6_0_AUST_EXT_MVG_ALB (or aus6_0e_mvg in GRID format).For this update, Version 6.0, the extant datasets for Queensland, Australian Capital Territory, South Australia and Western Australia have been updated. An automated, data-driven procedure, followed by thorough manual checks, was undertaken to make any necessary updates to MVG/MVS assignments for WA, VIC, NT, SA and NSW, with any changes being verified by the corresponding state/territory contacts. For Version 5.1 the extant dataset for Tasmania was updated, with gapfilling work being completed for the NSW extant dataset. Some of the rulesets underpinning the assignment of MVGs and MVSs were also updated to improve consistency for their allocation. Version 5.0 substantially standardised the lookup tables (NVIS5_0_LUT_DETAILxxxx and NVIS5_0_LUT_AUST_FLATxxxx). Previously, Version 4.2 updated NSW. For version 4.1 most agencies supplied data to the update. For more detail refer to the associate lookup tables.Summaries were derived from the best available data in the NVIS pre-1750 theme. This product is derived from a compilation of data collected at different scales on different dates by different organisations. Please refer to the separate Key Dataset map showing scales of the input datasets 'NVIS6_0_KEY_DSET_xxx'.Gaps in the NVIS database were filled by non-NVIS data, notably parts of South Australia and small areas of New South Wales such as the Curlewis area. The data represent on-ground dates of up to 2006 in Queensland, 2001 to 2005 in South Australia (depending on the region) and 2004/5 in other jurisdictions, except NSW. NVIS data was partially updated in NSW with 2001-09 data, with extensive areas of 1997 data remaining from the earlier version of NVIS.Major Vegetation Groups were identified to summarise the type and distribution of Australia's native vegetation. The classification contains different mixes of plant species within the canopy, shrub or ground layers, but are structurally similar and are often dominated by a single genus. In a mapping sense, the groups reflect the dominant vegetation occurring in a map unit where there are a mix of several vegetation types. Subdominant vegetation groups which may also be present in the map unit are not shown. For example, the dominant vegetation in an area may be mapped as dominated by eucalypt open forest, although it contains pockets of rainforest, shrubland and grassland vegetation as subdominants.A number of other non-vegetation and non-native vegetation land cover types are also represented as Major Vegetation Groups. These are provided for cartographic purposes, but should not be used for analyses.The (related) Major Vegetation Subgroups represent the dominant vegetation groups in the dominant stratum, along with the dominant shrub or ground layer,and are available as separate raster datasets:- NVIS6_0_AUST_EXT_MVS_ALB- NVIS6_0_AUST_PRE_MVS_ALBFor further background and other NVIS products, please see the links at:https://www.dcceew.gov.au/environment/land/native-vegetation/national-vegetation-information-system

Property boundaries represent the extent of ownership of an address in line with NSW Valuer General for the purposes of address verification and rating. The spatial layer is derived from land parcel boundaries (cadastre) originally supplied by NSW Spatial Services who remain the source of cadastral information. See SiX maps This spatial layer has been significantly changed and maintained by City of Sydney Spatial Services. This layer is not survey accurate. Geoservice API disabled, but geojson and download permitted.