Statewide Land Use 1996 to 2005

This land use map has been prepared under contract with Bureau of Rural Sciences (BRS) for Murray-Darling Basin Commission (MDBC). The classification scheme followed here was the Australia Land Use Mapping (ALUM) classification version 4 (BRS, 2001). ALUM version 4 was developed by BRS as a modification of Baxter - Russell Classification, in coordination with State agencies.

This product is based on information from a number of sources: Corporate Geospatial Data Library (CGDL), former DNRE regional data sets, satellite imagery from ACRES, the planning maps from Infrastructure Department, and the newly acquired field survey information. Data was sourced from 1996 to 2005.

Product was independently validated. Overall accuracy is 89.27%.

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Published (Metadata Record) 27/09/2023
Last updated 04/04/2025
Organisation Department of Jobs, Skills, Industry and Regions
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License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Full metadata URL https://metashare.maps.vic.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/api/records/94982f13-cc58-5873-a2c5-484b78226dff/formatters/sdm-html?root=html&output=html
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