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Land use of Australia 2010–11 to 2015–16, 250 m

Created 22/06/2022

Updated 21/08/2025

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The Land use of Australia 2010–11 to 2015–16, 250 m is a data package of seamless continental rasters of land use at the national scale which provides the spatial representation how Australia’s land resources are used. Data is for 2010–11 and 2015–16, and the associated change between the two years.

Non-agricultural land uses are mapped using seven thematic layers, derived from existing datasets provided by states and territories, and external agencies. The seven layers are:

  • protected areas
  • topographic features
  • land tenure
  • forest cover
  • catchment-scale land use
  • urban boundaries
  • stock routes.

The agricultural land uses are based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ 2010–11 and 2015–16 agricultural census data; with spatial distributions modelled using MODIS satellite imagery and training data, assisted by spatial constraint layers for cultivation, horticulture, and irrigation.

Land use is specified according to the Australian Land Use and Management (ALUM) Classification version 8. The same method is applied to both time points using representative national datasets for each period, where available. All rasters are in GeoTIFF format with geographic coordinates in Geocentric Datum of Australian 1994 (GDA94) and a 0.002197 degree (~250 metre) cell size.

The Land use of Australia 2010–11 to 2015–16 data package is a product of the Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program.

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Title Land use of Australia 2010–11 to 2015–16, 250 m
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/3ddc8cbe-c3fa-49f8-91e2-7ec421f24c39
Contact Point
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
Land_management@awe.gov.au
Reference Period 01/07/2010 - 30/06/2016
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    137.13828,
    -28.61389
  ],
  "type": "Point"
}
Data Portal Data.gov.au
Geospatial Topics
  • Farming
  • Environment
  • Location