Rainforest Mapping for state-wide Victoria

dataset: RAINFOR
This layer identifies areas mapped as rainforest communities across Victoria. It involved a combination of modelling, using Sentinel satellite composites, species distribution modelling and interpretation and interpretation of high resolution extent of Rainforest across Victoria, excluding the Strzelecki Ranges. Within the Strzelecki Ranges, extent and type have been modelled but these outputs are yet to be confirmedand checked against high resolution aerial photography. The layer identifies five classes of rainforest community: 1. Cool Temperate Rainforest 2. Dry Rainforest 3. Gallery Rainforest 4. Littoral Rainforest 5. Warm Termperate Rainforest
 
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(2020)

Rainforest Mapping for state-wide Victoria

Department of Environment, Land, Water & Planning
 

Description

Title
Rainforest Mapping for state-wide Victoria 
Alternate title
RAINFOR 
Purpose
All rainforest communities must be protected from threatening processes such as timber harvesting and fire management activities. Forest Planners across Government and non-Government organisations are encouraged to utilise this new data as part of their risk management plans to protect rainforest communities. For areas of modelled rainforest that have been mapped outside of the formal Comprehensive, Adequate and Representative (CAR) reserve system; forest management planners will need to confirm in the field the presence and extent of the rainforest community prior to any forest or fire management activity commencing. The data provided within RAINFOR is a modelled extent of rainforest based upon the spectral characteristics extractable from the Sentinel satellite imagery. The data has been Quality Assured through a supervised assessment of the classification result to ensure that communities have identified and mapped accurately 
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Completed  
 
 

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  • Biota
 
 

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General - Victoria 
 
 

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