Vegetation - Pre-European Settlement (1788)

Shows a reconstruction of Australian vegetation in the 1780s. Areas over 30,000 hectares are shown, plus small areas of significant vegetation such as rainforest. Attribute information includes: growth form of tallest and lower stratum, foliage cover of tallest stratum and dominant floristic types. Data are captured from 1:5 million source material.

Data are suitable for GIS applications, via free download. The source map is also available for purchase.

Product Specifications:

Coverage: Australia

Currency: Compiled mid-1980s

Coordinates: Geographical

Datum: AGD66

Projection: Simple Conic on two standard parallels 18S and 36S (printed map only)

Format: ArcInfo Export, ArcView Shapefile and MapInfo mid/mif (data only)

Medium: Printed map - Paper (flat and folded); Free online and CD-ROM (fee applies)

Forward Program: Under review.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2003-01-01T00:00:00
Citation identifier
Geoscience Australia Persistent Identifier/https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/42356

Cited responsible party
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Author

National Mapping Division

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Point of contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Custodian

EGD
Owner

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Custodian

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
5000000
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
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W


Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown

Resource format

Title

Product data repository: Various Formats

Website

Data Store directory containing the digital product files

Data Store directory containing one or more files, possibly in a variety of formats, accessible to Geoscience Australia staff only for internal purposes

Keywords

  • GIS Dataset

  • Thematic

Theme

  • GIS

Theme

  • mapping

Theme

  • vegetation

Theme

  • environmental

Theme

  • National dataset

Theme

  • dataset

Keywords

  • AU

Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)

  • Earth Sciences

Keywords

  • Published_External

Resource constraints

Title

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence

Alternate title

CC-BY

Edition

4.0

Website

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License

Resource constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Distributor

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice
OnLine resource

Related Product

Related product: Printed map of Vegetation - Pre-European Settlement (1788)

OnLine resource

Download User Guide (pdf)

Download User Guide (pdf)

Distribution format

OnLine resource

File download

Download the file (shp)

OnLine resource

File download

Download the file (mif)

OnLine resource

File download

Download the file (e00)

Resource lineage

Statement

Captured from Geoscience Australia's 'Natural Vegetation' at 1:5 million scale map.

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Description

Source data not available.

Metadata constraints

Title

Australian Government Security ClassificationSystem

Edition date
2018-11-01T00:00:00
Website

https://www.protectivesecurity.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx

Classification
Unclassified

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/a05f7892-b794-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Title

GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Role Organisation / Individual Name Details
Point of contact

Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)

 Voice

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Name

dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title

Geoscience Australia - short identifier for metadata record with

uuid

Citation identifier
eCatId/42356

Metadata linkage

https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a05f7892-b794-7506-e044-00144fdd4fa6

Date info (Revision)
2018-04-20T06:08:46
Date info (Creation)
2003-02-11T00:00:00

Metadata standard

Title

AU/NZS ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-1:2014

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3

Title

Geoscience Australia Community Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-1:2014

Edition

Version 2.0, September 2018

Citation identifier
https://pid.geoscience.gov.au/dataset/ga/122551

 
 

Spatial extent

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W


Keywords

GIS National dataset dataset environmental mapping vegetation

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