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National Vegetation Information System
Environment Australia, 2002
This document provides additional information for the metadata document:
NVIS - Pre-European and Present Native Vegetation - Stage 1, Version 2 Data - National Land & Water Resources Audit
This data is made available for download on behalf of state and territory data custodians as listed below by Environment Australia. Individual custodians have placed restrictions upon some data compiled in NVIS, and various caveats upon the use and/or interpretation of their data. Restricted data is not available for download.
This data has been derived from a range of existing information sources and was mapped utilising a variety of mapping protocols. NVIS is a secondary interpretation of this data. Conclusions drawn from this data will be more robust at a broader national scale and vegetation descriptions more reliable when considered as whole records. The data compiled in NVIS is undergoing constant refinement and improvement. For more detailed data and specific vegetation data related inquiries, you should contact the State and Territory data custodian.
Current and additional mapping of vegetation is available from Environment ACT.
Contact: 02 6207 9777
Access to the Lower Hunter and Central Coast Regional Environmental Management System (LHCCREMS) or REMS dataset must be negotiated directly with the custodian.
(No contact details provided)
Access to the following additional data sets compiled into the National Vegetation Information System (Stage 1) must be negotiated directly with the Data Custodian:
Contact:
Resource Assessment
Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Environment
Ph: 08 9980 4100
The present vegetation data sets are current to the spatial extent of remnant vegetation in 1995. More recent and/or additional mapping of vegetation may have taken place since that date and is available from the data custodian.
Contact:
Environmental Protection Agency - Queensland Herbarium
Ph: 07 3896 9326
Current and additional mapping of vegetation using South Australian mapping standards is available from the Department for Environment and Heritage.
Access to the following additional data sets compiled into the National Vegetation Information System (Stage 1) is only available by direct application to the data custodian.
| REGION | ZONE |
|---|---|
| South East | Intensive Land-use Zone |
| Murray Mallee | Intensive Land-use Zone |
| Western Murray Flats | Intensive Land-use Zone |
| Southern Mount Lofty Ranges | Intensive Land-use Zone |
| Mid North | Intensive Land-use Zone |
| Yellabinna | Extensive Land-use Zone |
| Statewide Pre-settlement | Whole of State |
Contact:
Department for Environment and Heritage
Ph: 08 8226 4721
This data has been derived from various state-wide information sources that were available when this compilation was made. Conclusions drawn from this data will be more robust at the national rather than the regional scale. Constant improvement of data at the State level is being made.
Inquiries about access to the original vegetation mapping upon which the NVIS is derived and current mapping by Tasmania should be directed to the custodian.
Contact:
Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment
Coordinator Vegetation Mapping
Ph: 03 6233 4501
Contact:
Department of Sustainability and Environment
Senior GIS Analyst
Ph: 03 9412 4591
Email: fiona.ferwerda@nre.vic.gov.au
Current and additional mapping of vegetation using West Australian mapping standards is available from the Department of Conservation and Land Management and Agriculture WA.
Contact:
Agriculture WA
Ph: 08 9368 3333
These datasets are available for download from the Department of the Environment and Heritage data download facility. All datasets are available in two formats - ArcInfo export file and ESRI shapefile.
To make the data in the NVIS system available for download it has been divided into sections of 50 Mg or less by state, dataset and finally arbitrary division. To identify the dataset(s) covering the area of interest refer to the list of figures below (by State). The size of each dataset can be determined from the list which follows by dataset name.
When downloading any of the spatial datasets an additional table called Veg_desc will also be required to interpret the NVIS_ids in the spatial coverage. This file is intended as a look-up table which can be joined to the spatial coverage. It is available in several formats:
Due to character limits in fields none of the standard spatial table formats can handle a full vegetation description at NVIS Level 6. This is only available in .csv format, viewable in Excel, where it should be regarded as a stand-alone reference table. However, only 4 states ( Qld, SA, Tas & Vic) have supplied descriptions at NVIS Level 6.
The remaining file formats only contain NVIS descriptions up to Level 5. The longest Level 5 description in NVIS is 337 characters so some Level 5 descriptions have been truncated in these formats - at 255 characters in the .dbf format , and at 320 characters in the info file formats (ie. .e00 or .att).
(Spatial Datasets available for download - as listed on the data download facility)
Vegetation Description Table (various formats - to interpret NVIS_ids in coverages)
| aa_veg_desc.csv | Vegetation Description attribute file - csv format |
| aa_veg_desc.dbf | Vegetation Description attribute file - dbf format |
| aa_veg_desc.e00 | Vegetation Description attribute table - ArcInfo export file |
| info | ArcInfo Info directory containing table veg_desc.att |
| Australian Capital Territory | |
| actext | ACT Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| actpre | ACT Pre-clearing NVIS Vegetation data |
| New South Wales | |
| nswext_estn | Eastern NSW (north) Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| nswext_ests | Eastern NSW (south) Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| nswext_midne | Mid NSW (north east) Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| nswext_midnw | Mid NSW (north west) Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| nswext_mids | Mid NSW (south) Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| nswext_wst | Western NSW Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| Northern Territory | |
| ntext_nth | NT (north) Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| ntext_sth | NT (south) Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| ntpre_nth | NT (north) Pre-clearing NVIS Vegetation data |
| ntpre_sth | NT (south) Pre-clearing NVIS Vegetation data |
| ntlsys_ext | NT Land Systems (Arnhem/Sthn Gulf) Extant NVIS Veg data |
| ntlsys_pre | NT Land Systems (Arnhem/Sthn Gulf) Preclearing NVIS Veg data |
| Queensland | |
| qldbbext_nth | QLD - Brigalow Belt (north) - Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| qldbbext_sth | QLD - Brigalow Belt (south) - Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| qldbbpre_nth | QLD - Brigalow Belt (north) - Pre-clearing NVIS Vegetation data |
| qldbbpre_sth | QLD - Brigalow Belt (south) - Pre-clearing NVIS Vegetation data |
| qldext_nth | QLD - North Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| qldext_seq | QLD - South East Queensland NVIS Vegetation data |
| qldext_sthe | QLD - South (east) Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| qldext_sthw | QLD - South (west) Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| qldpre_cyp | QLD - Cape York Peninsula Pre-clearing NVIS Vegetation data |
| qldpre_seq | QLD - South East Queensland Pre-clearing NVIS Vegetation data |
| qldpre_wst | QLD - West Pre-clearing NVIS Vegetation data |
| South Australia | |
| saext_est | SA (east) Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| saext_wst | SA (west) Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| Tasmania | |
| tasext_nth | TAS (north) Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| tasext_sthe | TAS (south east) Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| tasext_sthw | TAS (south west) Extant NVIS Vegetation data |
| taspre | TAS (north) Pre-clearing NVIS Vegetation data |
| taspre | TAS (south) Pre-clearing NVIS Vegetation data |
| Western Australia | |
| waext_elz | WA Extant - Extensive Landuse Zone NVIS Vegetation data |
| waext_ilz1e | WA Extant - Intensive Landuse Zone - 1.North (east) NVIS Veg data |
| waext_ilz1w | WA Extant - Intensive Landuse Zone - 1.North (west) NVIS Veg data |
| waext_ilz2 | WA Extant - Intensive Landuse Zone - 2.South East NVIS Veg data |
| waext_ilz3e | WA Extant - Intensive Landuse Zone - 3.South West (east) NVIS Veg data |
| waext_ilz3wn | WA Extant - Intensive Landuse Zone - 3.South West (west-north) NVIS Veg data |
| waext_ilz3ws | WA Extant - Intensive Landuse Zone - 3.South West (west-south) NVIS Veg data |
| waext_ilz4e | WA Extant - Intensive Landuse Zone - 4.Central (east) NVIS Veg data |
| waext_ilz4wn | WA Extant - Intensive Landuse Zone - 4.Central (west-north) NVIS Veg data |
| waext_ilz4ws | WA Extant - Intensive Landuse Zone - 4.Central (west-south) NVIS Veg data |
| wapre | WA Pre-clearing NVIS Vegetation data |
The following figures display the spatial extent of the individual datasets downloadable from NVIS. They provide a guide to what datasets are required to obtain coverage of a specific area or region.
| Dataset Number | Dataset Name | Coverage Size (Mb) |
Shapefile Size (Mb) |
Dataset Extent (Figure) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ACT01 | actext | 13.1 | 15.3 | Fig 1 |
| ACT02 | actpre | 0.007 | 0.008 | Fig 1 |
| NSW01 | nswext_estn | 21.7 | 19.0 | Fig 2 |
| NSW02 | nswext_ests | 47.7 | 25.2 | Fig 2 |
| NSW03 | nswext_midne | 26.8 | 35.3 | Fig 2 |
| NSW04 | nswext_midnw | 34.8 | 36.0 | Fig 2 |
| NSW05 | nswext_mids | 25.0 | 23.5 | Fig 2 |
| NSW06 | nswext_wst | 10.6 | 14.1 | Fig 2 |
| NT01 | ntext_nth | 37.0 | 50.0 | Fig 3 |
| NT02 | ntext_sth | 12.1 | 13.9 | Fig 3 |
| NT03 | ntpre_nth | 37.1 | 50.3 | Fig 3 |
| NT04 | ntpre_sth | 12.1 | 13.9 | Fig 3 |
| NT05 | ntlsys_ext | 8.7 | 9.8 | Fig 3 |
| NT06 | ntlsys_pre | 6.1 | 6.3 | Fig 3 |
| QLD01 | qldbbext_nth | 37.1 | 47.2 | Fig 5 |
| QLD02 | qldbbext_sth | 22.4 | 31.1 | Fig 5 |
| QLD03 | qldbbpre_nth | 31.5 | 45.9 | Fig 4 |
| QLD04 | qldbbpre_sth | 12.9 | 19.5 | Fig 4 |
| QLD05 | qldext_nth | 31.1 | 40.6 | Fig 5 |
| QLD06 | qldext_seq | 23.6 | 35.7 | Fig 5 |
| QLD07 | qldext_sthe | 32.3 | 44.9 | Fig 5 |
| QLD08 | qldext_sthw | 21.4 | 30.7 | Fig 5 |
| QLD09 | qldpre_cyp | 7.9 | 7.5 | Fig 4 |
| QLD10 | qldpre_seq | 9.6 | 11.7 | Fig 4 |
| QLD11 | qldpre_wst | 44.1 | 49.1 | Fig 4 |
| SA01 | saext_est | 23.4 | 35.3 | Fig 5 |
| SA02 | saext_wst | 18.6 | 23.6 | Fig 6 |
| TAS01 | tasext_nth | 32.1 | 46.1 | Fig 7 |
| TAS02 | tasext_sthe | 27.0 | 39.6 | Fig 7 |
| TAS03 | tasext_sthw | 19.9 | 26.9 | Fig 7 |
| TAS04 | taspre_nth | 37.4 | 20.2 | Fig 7 |
| TAS05 | taspre_sth | 22.5 | 12.8 | Fig 7 |
| WA01 | waext_elz | 32.4 | 51.2 | Fig 9 |
| WA02 | waext_ilz1e | 26.8 | 11.7 | Fig 10 |
| WA03 | waext_ilz1w | 34.1 | 15.6 | Fig 10 |
| WA04 | waext_ilz2 | 39.4 | 33.1 | Fig 10 |
| WA05 | waext_ilz3e | 37.1 | 28.5 | Fig 10 |
| WA06 | waext_ilz3wn | 47.3 | 38.8 | Fig 10 |
| WA07 | waext_ilz3ws | 23.2 | 22.9 | Fig 10 |
| WA08 | waext_ilz4e | 31.0 | 23.2 | Fig 10 |
| WA09 | waext_ilz4wn | 46.9 | 44.9 | Fig 10 |
| WA10 | waext_ilz4ws | 33.3 | 29.7 | Fig 10 |
| WA11 | wapre | 20.3 | 27.5 | Fig 9 |