Native Vegetation Regulation Extent for Victoria (2017)

A 2017 modelled picture of the distribution of native vegetation remaining across Victoria, Australia. The dataset, produced by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action, helps inform biodiversity investment, land regulation, and environmental assessment. It replaces the previous version NV2010_EXTENT_V3.

Use Cases

• Prioritizing investment in biodiversity programs based on the modelled distribution of native vegetation.
• Regulating land and resource use based on the extent of remaining native vegetation.
• Identifying areas for further environmental assessment based on the modelled vegetation picture.

Strengths

• Explicitly replaces a previous version (NV2010_EXTENT_V3), suggesting version control.
• Data is provided in multiple geospatial raster formats (TIFF, JPEG, ECW, JPEG 2000, GEOTIFF).
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action

Collection Method

Modelled picture of distribution.

Time Range

2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-28 01:34:42.971615; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Victoria, Australia