This dataset contains a national grid, of roughly 1km cell size, showing the
major forms of agricultural commodity production. The forms of commodity
production, classified in the land use map as either dryland or irrigated,
include: Agroforestry, Almonds, Apples, Apricots, Avocados, Bananas, Barley,
Beef, Canola, Cereals Ex Rice, Cereals For Hay, Cherries, Chick, Peas,
Corriander, Cotton, Dairy, Faba Beans, Fennel, Field Peas, Grain Sorghum,
Grapes, Lavender, Lemons/Lime, Lentils, Lupins, Macadamia, Maize, Mandarins,
Mangoes, Millet, Mung Beans, Mustard, Native Pasture, Nectarines, Non-Cereal
Crops For, Nurseries/Flowers, Oats, Oil Poppies, Olives, Oranges, Other Field
Beans, Other Sown Pastures, Other Stone Fruit, Other Vegetables, Peaches,
Peanuts, Pears, Pineapples, Plums, Potatoes, Pure Lucerne, Pyrethrum,
Rambutan, Residual, Rice, Safflower, Sheep, Sown Pasture, Soybeans, Sugar
Cane, Sunflower, Tobacco, Triticale, Turf, Vetches and Wheat. The land use map
is derived from the 1996/97 land use map of Australia produced by the
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences for the
National Land and Water Resources Audit. Some modifications were made to the
National land use map in order to capture required details on commodity
production and allocate pasture to livestock production. The land use map
locates over 60 forms of agricultural land use, classified as either dryland
or irrigated. Details on the land use map are available in metadata from the
Australian Natural Resources Data Library and other supporting documents from
the Australian Natural Resources Atlas.
See further metadata for more detail.
