The Department of Primary Industries ¿ Fisheries Research Branch (FRB) is undertaking a seagrass monitoring program in Port Phillip Bay. Photography is being flown annually in the period late March to end of May from 2008-2011. The photography is to be used for seagrass mapping and to support marine habitat assessment in Port Phillip Bay.

The DSE Natural Resources Division seeks to establish an ongoing land cover mapping program to improve knowledge of land and biodiversity assets across the state. This program will contribute directly towards monitoring and reporting on progress towards State Wide Natural Resource Management outcomes and will improve the States ability to demonstrate the impact of policy, strategy and investment. The imagery will be manually interpreted and mapped for land cover types and stratified in a manner to facilitate targeted analysis of land cover. The 2009-10 CIP Vic Land Cover Photo Project will capture and provide photography for areas not covered by the 2008-9 CIP photography projects.

Captured as part of the 2009-10 CIP, this 15cm orthorectified imagery covers the City of Bendigo and townships of Axedale, Elmore, Goornong, Heathcote, Lockwood South, Marong, Miamia, Neilborough, Ravenswood, Raywood, Redesdale, and Sebastian.

The DSE Natural Resources Division seeks to establish an ongoing land cover mapping program to improve knowledge of land and biodiversity assets across the state. This program will contribute directly towards monitoring and reporting on progress towards State Wide Natural Resource Management outcomes and will improve the States ability to demonstrate the impact of policy, strategy and investment. The imagery will be manually interpreted and mapped for land cover types and stratified in a manner to facilitate targeted analysis of land cover. The 2009-10 CIP Vic Land Cover Photo Project will capture and provide photography for areas not covered by the 2008-9 CIP photography projects.

The West Gippsland LiDAR Project is a DSE project with dual program partners. The EcoMarkets program is interested in using LiDAR based data for investigating various landscape values on freehold land with particular focus on remnant vegetation structure. The current EcoMarkets areas of interest are the Strezlecki Ranges and Gippsland Plains Bio Regions in the West Gippsland CMA. For its part, Spatial Information Infrastructure (SII) is aiming to fill coverage gaps in between existing LiDAR data sets to extend DSEs high accuracy Vicmap DTM. Bringing both requirements together, an area of approximately 1000km2 of almost contiguous land area largely bounded by previous LiDAR projects in the Gippsland Region has been identified. The coverage required has been divided into 4 priority sub-areas.

Captured as part of the 2009-10 CIP, this 35cm orthorectified imagery will be used for a variety of applications where medium resolution imagery is required.

This is a State Government project for Southern & Eastern Integrated Transport Authority (SEITA) to capture high resolution imagery over the proposed Frankston Bypass corridor. The purpose of the imagery is to support property management, land compensation and construction/project management for the project.

Captured as part of the CIP 2009-10 Surf Coast Towns Project, this 12cm imagery covers the Surf Coast Towns of Aireys Inlet, Torquay, Jan Juc plus Anglesea Landfill site, & Gherang Gravel Pits for the purposes of Surf Coast Shire Council asset and environmental management and urban growth monitoring

Captured as part of the 2009-10 CIP, this 15cm orthorectified imagery was captured for Wyndham City Council for mapping, asset management and monitoring purposes.

Distribution and severity of psyllid infestation of selected Departmental Forest Blocks. This layer shows the distribution and severity of psyllid infestation of selected Forest Blocks. This is an interim layer awaiting the formation of the Psyllid Working Group.