ACT Canopy Cover 2020: 1m Resolution Vegetation Map

LiDAR data acquired in April/May 2020 was processed to create a 1-meter resolution vector map of tree canopy cover above 3 meters for the Australian Capital Territory. The dataset was produced by Aerometrex under contract for the ACT Government and processed using ArcPro and satellite imagery to refine results. It is available in multiple formats including CSV, GeoJSON, and GPKG.

Use Cases

• Model urban cooling effects based on canopy cover density.
• Assess urban habitat connectivity based on vegetation distribution.
• Plan for living infrastructure investment based on canopy coverage.
• Monitor changes in urban tree cover over time using the 2020 baseline.

Strengths

• Data is derived from LiDAR captured at an average resolution of 12ppm.
• Canopy cover is mapped at a high 1-meter spatial resolution.
• Processing used multiple refinement steps including building footprint and NDVI layer removal.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• The dataset may draw slowly or appear to miss some trees due to complexity and high resolution.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

ACT Government Geospatial Data Catalogue (ACTmapi)

Collection Method

LiDAR data processed into Digital Surface and Elevation Models, then converted to a canopy height model and vectorized.

Time Range

April/May 2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-04 03:03:54.413119; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australian Capital Territory