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Datasets for the ‘Environment’ Category

Datasets for the ‘Environment’ Category
Dataset Description Agency Date Updated
National Parks and Asset Locations (South Australia)

The location of assets located within South Australian National Parks.  The zip file contains shape file defining park boundaries, some reference layers and asset locations.

Department for Environment and Heritage (SA) 2009-08-03
NSW Rural Fire Service – Current Incidents

List of current incidents from the NSW Rural Fire Service, and includes GeoRSS data and Major Fire Update summary information where available.

NSW Rural Fire Service
NSW Rural Fire Service – Major Updates

Summary update for major fires burning in New South Wales.

NSW Rural Fire Service
Frog Atlas – SA South Australian Department For Environment and Heritage (DEH)
Solar Report (VIC)

Using data from the Bureau of Meteorology and figures from the Climate Group, the Solar Report shows the percentage cost and greenhouse gas emissions that households in Victorian regions would save on their hot water bill if they had a solar water heater. Data is also expressed in the equivalent number of cars taken off [...]

Sustainability Victoria 2009-10-01
Detox Your Home Locations (VIC)

Victorian locations where unwanted household chemicals can be disposed of safely. Locations comprise permanent drop-off points and a schedule for a mobile service.

Sustainability Victoria 2009-10-07
ResourceSmart Retailers (VIC)

The ResourceSmart Retail Program provides information available through over 300 partnering stores to help consumers compare the environmental performance and running costs of the products they’re looking to buy. This dataset provides address and contact information for all program partner stores.

Sustainability Victoria 2009-10-06
Byteback™ locations (VIC)

Locations for Byteback™ – a free computer recycling service that lets Victorian residents and small businesses dispose of old, unwanted and non-functioning computers safely. This service is currently being trialled in Victoria only.

Sustainability Victoria 2009-10-06
Water consumption in Melbourne

Water consumption in Melbourne

Department of Sustainability and Environment
Beachwatch and Harbourwatch Daily Bulletins

Current predicted likelihood of pollution at Sydney’s ocean beaches and harbours.

NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water 2009-09-25
Surface Water Gauging Stations Queensland

Gauging Stations Network Locations Queensland is a point coverage captured and stored in ArcGIS depicting the location of the current gauging stations network in Queensland.

Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management 2009-09-14
Groundwater Observation Bore Sites

Existing sub-artesian observation bores owned or managed by the Queensland Department of Natural Resource that comprise the Groundwater Monitoring Network. The bores in the network are monitored on a regular and scheduled basis.

Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management 2009-09-14
Drainage Basins Queensland

The boundaries and names of the Queensland Drainage Basins are as defined by the Australian Water Resources Management Committee (WRMC). Information includes the name and number of each drainage basin. The capture scale for this dataset is 1:100 000.

Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management 2009-09-14
Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia (IMCRA) v4.0 – Provincial Bioregions

An inshore regionalisation of Australian waters derived from biological and physical data, including the distribution of demersal fishes, marine plants and invertebrates, sea floor geomorphology and sediments, and oceanographic data.
The meso-scale regionalisation was compiled from information supplied to the Australian Government Department of the Environment and Heritage by the relevant State, Northern Territory and Commonwealth [...]

Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts 2006-11-01
Queensland Wetlands Mapping – Estates Layer including National Parks, Conservation Areas & Forest Reserves

Queensland Wetlands Mapping – Estates Layer including National Parks, Conservation Areas & Forest Reserves

Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management 2009-09-14
Integrated Marine and Coastal Regionalisation of Australia (IMCRA) v4.0 – Meso-scale Bioregions

An inshore regionalisation of Australian waters derived from biological and physical data, including the distribution of demersal fishes, marine plants and invertebrates, sea floor geomorphology and sediments, and oceanographic data.

Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts 2006-11-01
Queensland Wetlands Data – Wetlands

This dataset provides mapping of water bodies and wetland regional ecosystems at 1:100,000 scale across Queensland.

Queensland Department of Environment and Resource Management 2009-09-14
Commonwealth Marine Protected Areas Managed by DEWHA

The data contains spatial and contextual information about Commonwealth Marine Protected Areas (MPA’s) under the jurisdiction of the Commonwealth governments Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999, which are managed by the Australian Government Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts.

Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts 2007-08-31
Murray-Darling Basin Boundary – Water Act 2007

The boundary of the Murray-Darling Basin as defined in Section 4 (1) of the Water Act 2007. The boundary was derived from the dataset that is titled “Australia’s River Basins 1997″ and is dated 30 June 1997.

Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts 2008-04-03
Australia, World Heritage Areas

Australia properties on the World heritage list.

Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts 2007-10-30
Land Use of Australia, Version 3 – 2001/2002

The 2001/02 Land Use of Australia, Version 3, is part of a series of land use maps of Australia for the years 1992/93, 1993/94, 1996/97, 1998/99, 2000/01 and 2001/02.

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Integrated Vegetation Cover (2003), Version 1

Represents vegetation cover across Australia and was compiled by integrating a number of recent vegetation-related datasets.

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Forests of Australia 2003

The Commonwealth applies a national classification to the State and Territory data for forest type, cover, extent and tenure, enabling analyses and reporting of Australia’s forest estate.

Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry
Daily Weather Observations

Rainfall, evaporation, temperature, pressure and wind data of all the capital cities plus Cairns, Broome and Alice Springs for 2008

Bureau of Meteorology 2009-09-11
Australian Atlas of Mineral Resources, Mines and Processing Centres

The Atlas delivers authoritative minerals and mining information to individual Australians and provides a virtual-showcase of the industry for global audiences.

Geoscience Australia 2009
PLGR – Playgrounds (ACT)

Location and attribute detail of Parks Conservation and Lands (PCL) playgrounds – located within major urban open space locations across the Australian Capital Territory.

Territory and Municipal Services (TAMS) (ACT) 2009-09-11
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