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Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD)
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NSW Forest Extent 2022 (UTM Zones 55 & 56)

The 2022 NSW Forest extent layer was created by the NSW DPIRD Forest Science team applying spatio-temporal analysis of the 2017-2022 National Forest and sparse woody vegetation data (Version 7.0 - 2022 Release) (Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment, and Water's). The data is available on data.gov.au. The dataset was further analysed and masked to exclude non-forest areas and create a forest extent layer with a 20 percent canopy cover for the NSW UTM Zones 55 & 56. The mask layer includes various datasets such as NSW Land use 2017, State Vegetation Type map (SVTM), Land Zoning, Water body, etc. The DPIRD Plantation unit's Authorised plantation layer (current as Aug 2024) was used to characterise forest types, i.e. Native forest and Plantation.

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Language English
Edition 2024v1
Purpose Legislative and Regulatory requirements; Forest monitoring and management; Natural resource management
Frequency of change As needed
Keywords ECOLOGY,AGRICULTURE,ECOLOGY-Landscape,FORESTS,FORESTS-Agriforestry,FORESTS-Plantation,FORESTS-Natural,GEOSCIENCES,HAZARDS,HAZARDS-Fire,HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT,INDUSTRY,INDUSTRY-Primary,LAND,LAND-Cover,LAND-Use,LAND-Valuation
Field of Research (optional) 460106-Spatial data and application (ANZSRC 2020 code)
Metadata Date 2025-01-16
Date of Asset Creation 2025-01-16
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Geospatial Topic Environment
Extent

Dataset extent

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
Temporal Coverage From 2017-01-01 - 2022-09-30
Datum GDA94 / NSW Lambert
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Attribution Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner: "© State Government of NSW and Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) 2025"