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NSW Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program State-wide Historic Forest Canopy Cover Extent - 1995 to 2020

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 26/09/2025

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The spatial layers in this dataset detail forest cover extent over NSW. They have been created for the NSW Natural Resources Commission to detail historic baseline and trends of forest cover extent coverage for NSW for all land tenures, including all RFAs and IFOAs. These have been based off the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory (NGGI) National Carbon Accounting System (NCAS) National Forest and Sparse Woody Vegetation Data grids (ABARES, 2021). These base grids are Landsat in origin and have a resolution of 25m. These base grids have been processed through a series of land use and vegetation type exclusion masking and a through a fuzzy-logic based certainty analysis to reflect a forest cover extent coverage for NSW that is reflective of past and current coverage. These grids cover the years from 1995 to 2020. The year gaps are triennial or biennial data layers from 1995 to 2004. 1996,1997,1999,2001,2003 years missing as these were not assessed in original applied database. From 2004 to 2020 data layers become annualised. Read more about the project on the Natural Resources Commission website: https://www.nrc.nsw.gov.au/fmip-baselines-ecosystem-health-projectfe1 This dataset supersedes "NSW Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program RFA Historic Forest Cover Extent – 1995 to 2019". https://portal.tern.org.au/metadata/TERN/fef2d61b-7c5e-42be-88c1-849a3fc6a70a.

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Title NSW Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program State-wide Historic Forest Canopy Cover Extent - 1995 to 2020
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/1674d164-ac90-47e7-b2f9-3332e7852af7
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
nrc@nrc.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1995 - 01/01/2020
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "NSW Forest Monitoring and Improvement Program State-wide Historic Forest Canopy Cover Extent - 1995 to 2020". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/nsw-forest-monitoring-and-improvement-program-state-wide-historic-forest-canopy-cover-exte-2020