Victorian Coastal Erosion and Inundation Hazard Assessment for Port Phillip

A second-pass state-wide assessment of erosion and inundation hazards resulting from future climate change scenarios. The dataset was produced by the Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action to inform the Victorian Coastal Monitoring Program. It was last updated on 2026-04-27.

Use Cases

• Modeling coastal erosion risk based on future climate scenarios mentioned in the description
• Assessing inundation vulnerability for infrastructure planning based on hazard assessments
• Informing coastal monitoring programs with state-wide geospatial hazard data
• Visualizing climate change impacts on specific coastal regions like Port Phillip

Strengths

• Data is licensed under CC-BY-4.0, allowing for broad reuse and adaptation
• Covers a state-wide geographic scope for Victoria, Australia
• Provides a second-pass assessment, suggesting iterative refinement of hazard models

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Data is provided in raster/image formats (TIFF, JPEG, ECW, JPEG 2000, GEOTIFF), which may require specialized GIS tools for analysis

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action

Collection Method

A second-pass state-wide assessment, likely involving geospatial modeling.

Time Range

Assessment dated 2017, with metadata updated in 2026.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-27 19:02:07.275970

Geography

State of Victoria, Australia, with a focus on the Port Phillip Catchment Management Authority (CMA) region.