The City of Melbourne maintains more than 70,000 trees. This dataset details the location, species and lifespan of Melbourne's urban forest by precinct. To explore Melbourne's tree data and learn more about the life expectancy and diversity of trees in your city, check out our interactive tree map http://melbourneurbanforestvisual.com.au/, You can download the City of Melbourne's Urban forest Strategy and the summary of your precinct's consultation from the attachments section by selecting the 'About' button

Tree canopy within City of Melbourne mapped using 2021 high resolution multi-spectral imagery. The canopy polygons represent actual tree canopy extents on both private and public property across the city.

Under the Urban Forest Strategy, there are ten Precinct Plans that provide detailed information about how planting will occur in local streets to meet the objectives of the strategy. A planting schedule for streets in each precinct has been developed in consultation with the community and is based on: - Community priorities - Location and density of vulnerable residents - Opportunities for new planting - Hot and very hot streets, as shown in thermal imaging - Useful Life Expectancy of existing trees - Existing canopy cover

This dataset shows the anticipated timeframe for tree planting in each street across the City of Melbourne. This timing is provisional and subject to change. The schedule for some streets may be moved forward or delayed by capital works, developments or renewal projects that impact on tree planting or survival.

To learn more about the Urban Forest Strategy and Precinct Plans, visit http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/sustainability/urbanforest/pages/urbanforest.aspx

Tree canopy within City of Melbourne mapped using 2018 aerial photos. The canopy polygons represent actual tree canopy extents on both private and public property across the city.

This dataset contains details on the plaques located at the Shrine of Remembrance of Reserve​. Many of these plaques are located under trees, and where relevant, this dataset also contains details of the tree next to the plaque.

Tree canopy within City of Melbourne mapped using 2008 aerial photos and LiDAR. The canopy polygons represent actual tree canopy extents on both private and public property across the city. The data is considered accurate for 2008. Changes in tree canopy are expected to have occurred since that time.

Tree canopy within City of Melbourne mapped using 2016 aerial photos and LiDAR. The canopy polygons represent actual tree canopy extents on both private and public property across the city.

This dataset displays the tree planting plan locations within the municipal boundary of the City of Melbourne. This dataset was uploaded for the Digital Transformation Project at the City of Melbourne.

This shapefile delineates historic creek lines digitised from the 1855 map Melbourne and its Suburbs" compiled by James Kearney, draughtsman ; engraved by David Tulloch and James D. Brown. http://handle.slv.vic.gov.au/10381/89107. The Elizabeth Street, Swanston Street and Fitzroy Garden creek alignments are included based on descriptions in: \r
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This dataset contains spatial polygons which represent tree canopy areas across the City of Melbourne. It can be easily mapped using the geometry column.

Tree canopy polygons have been derived by ArborCarbon from high-resolution airborne multispectral imagery. ArborCarbon collected this imagery using the ArborCam, a unique 11-band airborne multispectral camera system optimized for the accurate detection of vegetation and subtle changes in vegetation condition.

The high-resolution airborne imagery datasets were geometrically corrected and orthorectified using the City of Melbourne’s publicly available 2018 aerial imagery and a Digital Terrain Model supplied by the City. A Digital Surface Model was generated from the acquired imagery for the full extent of the City, enabling the stratification of vegetation into a range of height categories. All vegetation >3m above the ground was classified as canopy (excluding vegetation on building rooftops).

These flow routes are derived from the 2008 DEM surface using ESRI Spatial Analyst stream order tool with STRAHLER ordering. The GRID_CODE field represents stream order. Lines with no tributaries are assigned an order of one and are referred to as first order. When two first-order links intersect, the downslope link is assigned an order of two. When two second-order links intersect, the downslope link is assigned an order of three and so on. This was undertaken as part of the urbanforest program, the shapefile excludes a portion of Kensington that became part of City of Melbourne after this data was processed.

Anonymous digital intimate publics (ADIPs) are digital platforms where anonymous posters share intimate stories. Because these platforms are anonymous, conventions such as user profiles, time stamps and ‘likes’ are not part of the site’s functionality. Nonetheless, intimate connections are shared and developed on these sites. Rather than an isolated occurrence, multiple platforms have emerged with similarities in the intimate connection and communication that takes place on ADIPS. This research uses Lauren Berlant’s intimate publics to build a conceptual framework which sees intimacy as a broad and often ephemeral occurrence which creates worlds and connects communities. Building on existing literature in the field of digital intimate publics, this research considers how anonymity and more-than-human actors contribute to the dynamics of ADIPs. This research compares similarities across three ADIPs: Queering the Map, PostSecret, and the City of Melbourne’s tree email program. By ascertaining the thematic similarities of the posts, further theoretical insights can be made about how ADIPs dissolve the artificial divide between public and private, reveal the capacity for intimacy-building in ephemeral and imagined circumstances, and ultimately demonstrate a repeated drive to challenge the current distant norms of contemporary Western intimacy.

This dataset stores measurements from two field campaigns in 20 environmental plantings aged 4–35 years old in Australia where stem diameters, crown radii, and heights of individual trees and shrubs were collected, and above- and below-ground woody biomass (AGB, BGB) and carbon stocks were calculated. The first measurement was undertaken by The University of Melbourne in collaboration with Land Life Company between March and June 2022 covering 14 sites aged 21-35 years in Victoria, Australia. The purpose of this field campaign was to re-evaluate the biomass carbon stock of sites previously assessed in 2000 by CSIRO within the stem diameter database (SDD; Paul et al. 2020). For each site, to ensure representative coverage, the sampling area was divided into equal-sized sectors and within each sector a random transect of 0.05 ha (100 m length by 5 m width) was laid out based on a restricted random sampling design. Two to five transects were measured per site, depending on either sampling 10% of the area or meeting Australian recommendations for minimum stem numbers for the planting configuration. In total, the dataset contains 48 transects and 4703 unique tree or shrub measurements. Stem diameters of all trees and shrubs were measured using calipers, and height (measured with a laser hypsometer) and crown radius (estimated using a measuring tape) were assessed for only a few representative trees (selected to encompass the full diameter range). The second field campaign was undertaken by Land Life Company between June and July 2023 covering six environmental planting sites aged 4-23 years in Victoria, Australia. The purpose of this campaign was to collect crown data in two directions (perpendicular and parallel to the seeding line). For each site, 14-20 transects of 20 m length were measured (following the seeding line and avoiding gaps or areas of dead plants). In total, the data contains 108 transects and 1341 unique tree and shrub measurements. Crown radius was measured with a tape for each tree or shrub and in addition, stem diameter (measured with a caliper) and height (measured with a laser hypsometer) were also collected. For both datasets, to calculate AGB, stem diameters of multi-stem trees and shrubs were grouped into a single diameter equivalent using the equation of Penman et al. (2003), and then specific plant functional type (PFT) allometric equations (Paul et al. 2015, Paul et al. 2018) were used to derive above and below-ground biomass. Funding: School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne (Bennett, L T; Byrne, P; Karopoulos, A) Research Project agreement between The University of Melbourne and Land Life Calculated Calculated accordin... Calculated accordin... Calculated accordin... Caliper Campaign Carbon capture proj... Comment Crown radius Date Time of event Elevation of event Environmental plant... Event label Field experiment Height aboveground Investigator Laser hypsometer Latitude of event Location of event Longitude of event Model accuracy Multiple investigat... Parallel to the see... Perpendicular to th... Plant functional type Principal investigator Revegetation Species Stem diameter Transect number Tree Tree ID Tree height Tree shrub Tree shrub biomass Trees Uniform resource lo... Woodland restoration Woody biomass aboveground belowground biomass carbon sequestration diameter at breast ... productivity status stem diameter total

This dataset includes sap flux (cm3 cm-2 hr-1) measurements from instrumented trees at the Delaware Forested site (Milford Neck) for the CZNet Coastal Cluster. Tree sap flux reflects tree water use within xylem, rather than flow of tree sap (within phloem). Twelve Pinus taeda (loblolly pine) trees were initially selected for instrumentation. Selection was based on high canopy integrity and large DBH that was uniform across the site and reflected tree maturity. Selected trees were instrumented with heat pulse velocimetry (HPV) sap flow sensors (Implexx model, Edaphic Scientific, Melbourne, Australia). Sensors consist of three equidistant 30 mm-long probes: a central heating probe, a downstream, and an upstream probe. Each probe contains an inner and outer thermistor for functional redundancy and cross-sectional averaging. The Implexx HPV sensors work functionally similar to thermal dissipation probes. Sensors were installed in tree trunks at 1 m in height above the soil surface on the south side of the tree trunk. Bark thickness was shaved to <0.5 cm thickness in a small area for the probe installation so that thermistors were installed in sapwood. Data from sensors was collected every 30 minutes with a CR300 datalogger (Campbell Scientific). Power was supplied with a 7W solar panel and stored in a 12V sealed lead-acid battery. Because the datalogger batteries occasionally died or failed to charge by the solar power (particularly in mid-summer, when the forest canopy was full), there may be gaps in the record.

1. The leaf area-to-sapwood area ratio (LA:SA) is a key plant trait that links photosynthesis to transpiration. The pipe model theory states that the sapwood cross-sectional area of a stem or branch at any point should scale isometrically with the area of leaves distal to that point. Optimization theory further suggests that LA:SA should decrease toward drier climates. Although acclimation of LA:SA to climate has been reported within species, much less is known about the scaling of this trait with climate among species. 2. We compiled LA:SA measurements from 184 species of Australian evergreen angiosperm trees. The pipe model was broadly confirmed, based on measurements on branches and trunks of trees from one to 27 years old. Despite considerable scatter in LA:SA among species, quantile regression showed strong (0.2 < R1 < 0.65) positive relationships between two climatic moisture indices and the lowermost (5%) and uppermost (5–15%) quantiles of log LA:SA, suggesting that moisture availability constrains the envelope of minimum and maximum values of LA:SA typical for any given climate. 3. Interspecific differences in plant hydraulic conductivity are probably responsible for the large scatter of values in the mid-quantile range and may be an important determinant of tree morphology.

Quantitative trait and genotype data used to investigate climate adaptation in Eucalyptus microcarpa. Trait data includes individual tree size and leaf trait measurements for all trees measured in the provenance trial. SNP data contains individual genotype data for all genotyped trees. These data form the basis for analysis in the publication: Jordan R, Prober SM, Hoffmann AA and Dillon SK. 2020. Combined analyses of phenotype, genotype and climate implicate local adaptation as a driver of diversity in Eucalyptus microcarpa. In press. Lineage: Trait data were measured from a single, established provenance trial of Eucalyptus microcarpa. SNP data were generated using DArTmp for a subset of trees from this trial. More details available in: Jordan R, Prober SM, Hoffmann AA and Dillon SK. 2020. Combined analyses of phenotype, genotype and climate implicate local adaptation as a driver of diversity in Eucalyptus microcarpa. In press.

Tree canopy within City of Melbourne mapped using 2018 aerial photos and LiDAR. The canopy polygons represent actual tree canopy extents on public property (land managed by the City of Melbourne) across the city. The data is considered accurate for 2018. Changes in tree canopy are expected to have occurred since that time.

Tree canopy cover is mapped by the City of Melbourne annually.

In order to contribute to evolutionary resilience and adaptive potential in highly modified landscapes, revegetated areas should ideally reflect levels of genetic diversity within and across natural stands. Landscape genomic analyses enable such diversity patterns to be characterized at genome and chromosomal levels. Landscape-wide patterns of genomic diversity were assessed in Eucalyptus microcarpa, a dominant tree species widely used in revegetation in Southeastern Australia. Trees from small and large patches within large remnants, small isolated remnants and revegetation sites were assessed across the now highly fragmented distribution of this species using the DArTseq genomic approach. Genomic diversity was similar within all three types of remnant patches analysed, although often significantly but only slightly lower in revegetation sites compared with natural remnants. Differences in diversity between stand types varied across chromosomes. Genomic differentiation was higher between small, isolated remnants, and among revegetated sites compared with natural stands. We conclude that small remnants and revegetated sites of our E. microcarpa samples largely but not completely capture patterns in genomic diversity across the landscape. Genomic approaches provide a powerful tool for assessing restoration efforts across the landscape.

The Vicmap Vegetation Tree Urban represents trees as points across Metropolitan Melbourne and the urban environment within four regional councils: Wangaratta, Sale, Shepparton and Ballarat.

This product is derived from machine learning of high resolution aerial photography with no post processing human intervention.

3D point cloud representing all physical features (e.g. buildings, trees and terrain) across City of Melbourne. The data has been encoded into a .las file format containing geospatial coordinates and RGB values for each point. The download is a zip file containing compressed .las files for tiles across the city area.

The geospatial data has been captured in Map Grid of Australia (MGA) Zone 55 projection and is reflected in the xyz coordinates within each .las file.
Also included are RGB (Red, Green, Blue) attributes to indicate the colour of each point.

Capture Information
- Capture Date: May 2018
- Capture Pixel Size: 7.5cm ground sample distance
- Map Projection: MGA Zone 55 (MGA55)
- Vertical Datum: Australian Height Datum (AHD)
- Spatial Accuracy (XYZ): Supplied survey control used for control (Madigan Surveying) – 25 cm absolute accuracy

Limitations:
Whilst every effort is made to provide the data as accurate as possible, the content may not be free from errors, omissions or defects.

Sample Data:
For an interactive sample of the data please see the link below.
https://cityofmelbourne.maps.arcgis.com/apps/webappviewer3d/index.html?id=b3dc1147ceda46ffb8229117a2dac56d

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A zip file containing the .las files representing tiles of point cloud data across City of Melbourne area.

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