Catalogue
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. |
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 |


