Bio-physical Predictors of Coastal Land Use Change in the Great Barrier Reef, 1999-2009

An analysis of bio-physical factors explaining land use change between 1999 and 2009 in the Queensland coastal region adjacent to the Great Barrier Reef. The dataset includes input rasters and intermediate results from scenario modelling using a neural network, identifying four key predictors of change. It was produced under the NERP TE 9.4 project and is hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Use Cases

• Modeling land use transition probabilities based on bio-physical variables like slope and rainfall.
• Ranking the importance of environmental factors for explaining coastal development patterns.
• Training neural network models for land use change prediction using historical GIS data.

Strengths

• Analysis covers a 10-year period from 1999 to 2009.
• Raster data is provided at a 50-meter resolution, resampled to 500 meters for analysis.
• The modelling process identified four key bio-physical predictors from a larger set of variables.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the Queensland coastal region.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network, NERP TE 9.4 project (JCU).

Collection Method

Analysis performed using the IDRISI Land Use Change Modeler with a multi-layer perceptron neural network on rasterised QLUMP land use data.

Time Range

1999 to 2009

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-16 02:26:16.737573; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Queensland coastal region, Great Barrier Reef coastal zone.