Ground cover in grazing lands across Queensland declined in 2019 compared to the long-term mean. More than two-thirds of Queensland was wholly or partly drought declared by the end of 2019. The dataset is provided by the Queensland Department of Environment, Science and Innovation under a CC-BY-4.0 license.
Use Cases
- Assess drought impact on grazing lands based on ground cover change.
- Correlate ground cover levels with annual rainfall patterns.
- Monitor land condition trends over time for state-level reporting.
Strengths
- Focuses on a specific environmental indicator (ground cover) for a defined region (Queensland).
- Provides a temporal comparison (2019 vs. long-term mean).
- Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Time Range
- 2019 and long-term mean
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-05-27 14:01:33.082536; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Queensland, Australia