Barwon-Darling Floodplain Vegetation Survey and Mapping, 2014

A 2014 vegetation survey and mapping project of the Barwon-Darling Floodplain in New South Wales, Australia, conducted between downstream of Brewarrina and upstream of Tilpa. The work was commissioned by the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage and undertaken by Federation University Australia's Centre for Environmental Management as part of the NSW Healthy Floodplains Project.

Use Cases

• Map vegetation community distribution based on the survey and mapping described.
• Analyze floodplain ecosystem health based on the vegetation community data.
• Support environmental management and policy for the Barwon-Darling floodplain based on the commissioned survey.
• Conduct spatial analysis of riparian zones based on the geospatial mapping outputs.

Strengths

• Data is geospatially referenced, indicated by the ESRI REST, WMS, and Geospatial Mapping tags.
• Project was commissioned by a government environmental authority (NSW Office of Environment and Heritage).
• Dataset has a clear temporal anchor (2014) and geographic scope (Barwon-Darling Floodplain).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au, focusing on a specific Australian floodplain.

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Collection Method

Field survey and geospatial mapping commissioned by a government agency.

Time Range

2014

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-12 15:11:50.686358; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Barwon-Darling Floodplain, New South Wales, Australia (between downstream of Brewarrina and upstream of Tilpa)