Statewide Victorian Coastal Hazard Assessment for Glenelg-Hopkins CMA, 2017

A second-pass state-wide assessment of erosion and inundation hazards resulting from future climate change scenarios to inform the Victorian Coastal Monitoring Program. The dataset is provided by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action and was last updated on 2026-04-27. It covers the Glenelg-Hopkins Catchment Management Authority region in Victoria, Australia.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal erosion risk based on future climate change scenarios.
• Assessing inundation hazards for coastal infrastructure planning.
• Informing regional monitoring programs with geospatial hazard data.
• Conducting comparative analysis of climate impacts across different Victorian coastal areas.

Strengths

• Data is provided under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.
• Last updated on 2026-04-27, indicating recent maintenance.
• Focuses on a specific CMA region (Glenelg-Hopkins) for detailed analysis.
• Includes multiple geospatial file formats (TIFF, JPEG, ECW, JPEG 2000, GEOTIFF).

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action

Collection Method

A second-pass state-wide assessment for the Victorian Coastal Monitoring Program.

Time Range

Assessment year 2017, with metadata updated in 2026.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-27 22:53:08.338645

Geography

Glenelg-Hopkins Catchment Management Authority region, Victoria, Australia.