Vegetation Map of Central-Southern NSW with 87% Accuracy

A high accuracy vegetation map of central-southern New South Wales classifies plant community types according to the Benson et al. (2006, 2008) classification. The map is produced by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and integrates with government assessment tools like the Property Vegetation Plan Developer. It replaces four previous Vegetation Information System datasets (VIS IDs 3798, 3799, 3800, 3812).

Use Cases

• Classify land cover based on mapped Plant Community Types.
• Assess property vegetation for regulatory planning based on the integrated NSW government classification.
• Validate remote sensing models using the stated 87% accuracy metric.
• Replace or update analyses that previously used the superseded VIS datasets (3798, 3799, 3800, 3812).

Strengths

• Reported high accuracy of 87% for vegetation classification.
• Integrates with official NSW government property and biobanking assessment tools.
• Replaces and consolidates four previous datasets (VIS IDs 3798-3800, 3812).

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 central-southern NSW.

Provenance

Source

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

Collection Method

Produced via 3D digital image interpretation.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-13 04:03:01.222409; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Central-southern New South Wales, Australia