Annual Woody Vegetation Change Classifications For Western Australia

Landgate's annual product identifies transitions in perennial woody vegetation between forest, sparse woody, and non-woody classifications for Western Australia. The data is derived from 30-meter resolution Landsat imagery and tracks six change classes, including forest to non-woody and non-woody to sparse.

Use Cases

• Analyze spatial patterns of forest to non-woody transitions to quantify deforestation or land clearing.
• Model the rate of woody vegetation recovery by tracking non-woody to sparse and non-woody to forest change classes.
• Monitor annual trends in sparse to non-woody changes to assess ecosystem degradation or stress.

Strengths

• Provides annual updates, with the latest metadata from March 2026.
• Uses 30-meter resolution Landsat imagery for detailed spatial analysis.
• Distinguishes six specific change classes for precise transition tracking.

Limitations

• Specific row count, column structure, and sample data are unavailable for assessing dataset scale.
• Data is limited to Western Australia, not providing national or global coverage.
• Relies on classification from satellite imagery, which may contain inherent sensor or algorithmic errors.

Provenance

Source

Landgate, the Western Australian land information authority.

Collection Method

Derived from classification of Landsat satellite imagery.

Time Range

Covers annual changes, with products generated for 2016-2017.

Freshness

Annually updated.

Geography

Western Australia.