Woody Vegetation Extent and Foliage Cover Maps for New South Wales

Comprising 5-meter resolution geospatial maps of woody vegetation extent and woody foliage projective cover (FPC) for New South Wales. It provides presence/absence data for trees and shrubs taller than two meters and canopy density measurements. The data is available as mosaics, tiles, and a shapefile for tile location.

Use Cases

• Analyze woody vegetation extent ('bcu' files) to identify the location and density of trees and shrubs for property planning and risk assessment.
• Calculate woody foliage projective cover (FPC) from 'bcv' files to measure canopy density for ecological monitoring and conservation activities.
• Use the provided shapefile to spatially join tile locations with other geospatial datasets for regional environmental analysis.
• Integrate the 5-meter resolution woody extent and FPC layers for modeling fire fuel load and storm impact assessments.

Strengths

• Provides high-resolution (5-meter) spatial data for detailed landscape analysis.
• Includes two distinct, complementary data products: woody extent and foliage projective cover (FPC).
• Offers data in multiple formats (mosaics, tiles, shapefile) for flexible use in GIS applications.

Limitations

• The dataset is limited to the geographic area of New South Wales, Australia.
• The description does not specify the temporal coverage or update frequency of the underlying imagery.
• Data is provided in raster and vector formats which may require specialized GIS software for analysis.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Derived from remote sensing imagery analysis using the OEH algorithm.

Freshness

Metadata indicates a last update date of 2026-03-20, but the actual data currency is unknown.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia