SoE2015: Australian Industrial Air Pollutant Emissions

The National Pollutant Inventory (NPI) tracks air pollutant emissions for industrial sources across Australia. The dataset is provided by the Queensland Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation and was last updated on 2026-05-27. It is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling industrial pollution sources based on reported emissions data.
• Analyzing regional air quality impacts based on tracked pollutant emissions.
• Assessing compliance and trends for industrial facilities based on inventory data.
• Training machine learning models for emission forecasting based on historical inventory data.

Strengths

• Data originates from the authoritative National Pollutant Inventory (NPI).
• License is permissive (CC-BY-4.0) for reuse and redistribution.
• Last update timestamp is precisely recorded (2026-05-27 14:05:56.120813).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update date is in the future (2026).

Provenance

Source

[email protected], Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation

Collection Method

Likely compiled from mandatory industry reporting to the National Pollutant Inventory.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-27 14:05:56.120813

Geography

Australia