Urban Tree Point Locations for Melbourne and Four Regional Councils

Machine learning derived from high-resolution aerial photography identifies individual trees as point features. The Vicmap Vegetation Tree Urban dataset covers Metropolitan Melbourne and the urban areas of Wangaratta, Sale, Shepparton, and Ballarat councils. The Department of Transport and Planning maintains this dataset, which was last updated in April 2026.

Use Cases

• Mapping urban canopy distribution based on point locations of trees.
• Assessing green space availability for urban planning based on tree point density.
• Modeling ecosystem services like carbon sequestration using tree location data.
• Monitoring changes in urban vegetation over time using derived aerial imagery data.

Strengths

• Derived from high-resolution aerial photography, suggesting detailed source imagery.
• Covers multiple defined urban areas: Metropolitan Melbourne and four regional councils.
• License is CC-BY-4.0, permitting broad reuse with attribution.
• Last updated in April 2026, indicating recent maintenance.

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 is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Department of Transport and Planning

Collection Method

Derived from machine learning analysis of high-resolution aerial photography with no post-processing human intervention.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-08 22:13:38.360329.

Geography

Metropolitan Melbourne and urban areas within the Wangaratta, Sale, Shepparton, and Ballarat councils.