Data set details

Title

National Dynamic Land Cover Dataset

Topic

vegetation

Description

first nationally consistent and thematically comprehensive land cover reference for Australia in 22 land cover classes

Keywords

land cover, land use, vegetation type, DLCD

Data Type

raster time series

Variables

land cover class

Domain

national

Accessibility

free and public

Contact

leo.lymburner@ga.gov.au

Location of repository

NCI

Spatial resolution

ca. 250 m

Timestep

annual, but each map covers 2 years

Start date

2002/03

End date

2012/13

Format

nc

Citation and/or DOI

Lymburner, L., Tan, P., Mueller, N., Thackway, R., Thankappan, M., Islam, A., Lewis, A., Randall, L. & Senarath, U., 2011. The National Dynamic Land Cover Dataset – Technical report. Record 2011/031. Geoscience Australia, Canberra