Tweed LGA Vegetation Mapping Updated to 2012

Tweed Shire Council Local Government Area Vegetation Mapping from various sources including Comprehensive Regional Assessment data and further refined up to 2012. The mapping was updated in 2011 using aerial photography from October 2009, with bushland boundaries revised at approximately 1:5000 scale. The current version was finalised in January 2012 by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water.

Use Cases

• Monitor changes in bushland extent based on aerial photography from 2009.
• Analyze vegetation community distribution using the Comprehensive Regional Assessment data sources.
• Support local conservation planning based on the 1:5000 scale mapping of bushland boundaries.
• Assess real and apparent changes to bushland between 2007 and 2009 as reported in the data.

Strengths

• Bushland boundaries were updated and revised at approximately 1:5000 scale.
• Real and apparent changes to bushland between 2007 and 2009 are reported.
• Data integrates multiple sources including Comprehensive Regional Assessment data.

Limitations

• Boundaries between vegetation communities within areas of bushland were not updated.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Mapping updated by Mark Kingston and Peter Hall using aerial photography from October 2009.

Time Range

Data refined up to 2012, with photography from 2009 and change analysis from 2007-2009.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 06:40:08.204959; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Tweed Shire Council Local Government Area.