Land Systems of Victoria at 1:250,000 Scale for Resource Management

Edition 3, updated in 2026, incorporates new survey material and revised classification. The dataset provides a statewide coverage of land types, originally described by Rowan in 1989, within a geomorphological framework. It consolidates land resource information from studies conducted over approximately forty years, with reliability varying by region.

Use Cases

• Statewide land resource planning based on the geomorphological framework and land system classification.
• Regional environmental management based on the delineated land types and their associated resource information.
• Assessing land suitability for various uses based on the consolidated land resource attributes.
• Historical land system analysis based on the retained links to original data sources and the evolution to Edition 3.

Strengths

• Statewide spatial coverage of Victoria, Australia.
• Explicit links to original data sources are retained.
• Edition 3 incorporates new survey material for specific shires and updated classification (e.g., relative relief classes).

Limitations

• Data reliability varies across regions due to compilation from studies with varying methodologies over forty years.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action (Victoria, Australia).

Collection Method

Consolidated from a range of land resource studies conducted over approximately forty years.

Time Range

Studies span approximately forty years prior to 1989, with updates in Edition 3.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-09 01:37:41.407901; freshness should be verified.

Geography

State of Victoria, Australia.