The 2008-9 Future Coasts Victorian Bathymetry Project consists of high accuracy LiDAR data covering the entire Victorian coastline, including major inlets, Port Phillip and Westernport. From the raw LiDAR data, a suite of bathymetry products was generated including 2.5m DEM and 1m Contours and classified LiDAR strikes. LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) is an airborne remote sensing technique for rapid collection of bathymetry data. The sensor used for this LiDAR project collected XYZ and Intensity data for first and last return by bouncing a pulse from the aircraft to the sea floor that enables the bathymetry and intensity values to be calculated.

The Victorian Alpine Fires 2003 were ignited on 8th January 2003 by a series of lightning strikes across north-eastern Victoria. This layer depicts the boundary of the Victorian and NSW fire boundaries. The Victorian part of this layer has been derived from fire number 39 in the fire100_2003 fire history dataset and combined with the NSW Canberra_SnowyFires03 layer. The NSW metadata can be found in the path below. The NSW data was supplied by the NSW Rural Fire Services. http://chln11/CA256F1C00247179/0/941730003147AA61CA2571CA00180E91/$File/Metadata_Fire_History_nsw2003.doc

This is a derived dataset that delineates the current Bioregional Conservation Status of EVCs within the modeled 1750 EVC dataset. The dataset is derived from a combination of both Victorian bioregions (VBIOREG100) and the modeled 1750 EVC dataset (NV1750_EVC), with an assigned conservation status on the basis of unique Bioregion EVC units. The dataset underpins the implementation of Victoria's Native Vegetation Management Framework, and the preparation of Regional Vegetation Plans in addition to other biodiversity planning. The dataset requires upgrading when either of the two input datasets change. Note erratum under Data Quality-Completeness-Classification

Captured as part of the 2009-10 CIP, this 15cm orthorectified imagery was captured for Wyndham City Council for mapping, asset management and monitoring purposes.

The DSE Natural Resources Division seeks to establish an ongoing land cover mapping program to improve knowledge of land and biodiversity assets across the state. This program will contribute directly towards monitoring and reporting on progress towards State Wide Natural Resource Management outcomes and will improve the States ability to demonstrate the impact of policy, strategy and investment. The imagery will be manually interpreted and mapped for land cover types and stratified in a manner to facilitate targeted analysis of land cover. The 2009-10 CIP Vic Land Cover Photo Project will capture and provide photography for areas not covered by the 2008-9 CIP photography projects.

This dataset was developed from the database of Ocean Sciences Institute of Sydney University (AUSEABED) and from surveys conducted by MAFRI.

Fire Recovery Photography

This layer represents the spatial extent, species distrubtion and density of seagrass meadows within the Gippsland Lakes. This layer is a result of a baseline survey of seagrass within the Gippsland Lakes. Ecological research into the health of seagrass meadows requires the type of detailed information collected in this baseline survey. This information will be used to establish future monitoring programs and it is envisaged that these areas will be re-surveyed every 5 years to detect macro changes.

This layer contains modelled old-growth forest which has been updated with forest harvesting and fire. The base layer used in western part of the state is og100 which was updated by lastburnt100, lastlog25 and boundaries of the 2006 Grampians fire from ECC. The base layer for the eastern part of the state is mog2003 updated by lastlog25 & lastburnt100. The old-growth forests in the base layers were identified to meet the Victorian definition of old-gwoth forest based on a set of modelling criteria, rules and input datasets. The data is not reliable at scales less than 1:100,000. Old-growth polygons have not been confirmed through field checking and the reliability of modelled old-groth stands have not been assessed.

Represents one of AAM Hatch's first captures with their digital camera.