Land Cover

dataset: LCOV250
The landcover dataset originates from the Murray Darling Basin Project M305 - Structural Vegetation for the Murray Darling Basin. Landcover describes the cover type present at that point in time that the mapping was undertaken. It should not be confused with public land which describes the management or use of the land. For example, an area may be managed as a pine plantation (land use) but may be bare for any period of time (landcover).
 
Citation proposal Citation proposal
(2010)

Land Cover

 

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Description

Title
Land Cover 
Alternate title
LCOV250 
Purpose
This dataset has been derived using existing CGDL hydrology, visual interpretation and digital classification of 1990 Landsat TM imagery. There are seven land cover categories mapped. All categories, except vegetation and water bodies, have been mapped to a minimum area of 50ha. Vegetation and water bodies have been identified to 1ha patches. The land cover classification is based on Anderson et al (1976) "A land use and lad cover classification system for use with remote sensor data". US Geological Service. Although collected at 1:100,000, the general nature and coarse resolution of most land cover categories dictates that the dataset be used as a 1:250,000 dataset. 
Credit
Andrew McKenzie, Rick Frisina 
Supplemental Information
Relationship to other Datasets: The layer is dependant on the derivation of vegetation and plantation data from Landsat TM interpretations for maintaining currency. Related Documents: None Fire100_XY metadata 
Status
Planned  
 
 

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Spatial

Horizontal Accuracy
100m  
 
 

Maintenance

Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned  
 
 

Format

Title
DIGITAL Arc/Info Revision 7 Librarian layer 1 
 
 

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Keywords

Topic category
  • Environment
  • Biota
 
 

Resource Constraints

Classification
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Statement
Dataset Source: Landsat TM image Dataset Originality: Derived 
Description
Collection Method: Visual interpretation and digital classification 
Description
Vegetation landcover was digitally classified from Landsat TM. All other categories were interpreted and collected as vector polygons. The vegetation data was polygonised and added to the remaining landcover categories to form LCOV250. 
 
 

Metadata Constraints

Classification
Unclassified  
 
 

Quality

Attribute Quality
Comments
There are no known errors 
Positional Accuracy
Comments
Precision: 100m - 1km Determination: Deductive estimate 
Conceptual Consistency
Missing Data
Comments
Incomplete (complete for the Murray Darling Basin) Incomplete (complete for the Murray Darling Basin) 
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