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Dynamic Land Cover Dataset

Name: Dynamic Land Cover Dataset
Creator: Geoscience Australia

Australia's first nationally consistent and thematically comprehensive land cover reference dataset, developed by Geoscience Australia in collaboration with the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics and Sciences, based on MODIS EVI time series, covering 2000-2008 at 250m resolution.

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ProducerGeoscience Australia

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Key facts

InstitutionGeoscience Australia (in collaboration with the Australian Bureau of Agriculture and Resource Economics and Sciences)

CoverageAustralia

Time spanApril 2000 to April 2008

Scale1 ZIP file

Contents & fields

This dataset contains land cover classification for every 250m x 250m pixel across Australia from 2000 to 2008, classified into 34 ISO classes (ISO 19144-2) reflecting vegetation structure (e.g., crops, pastures, closed forest, sparse grasslands). Data derived from MODIS Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) time series (186 images). No field-level details are disclosed on the source page.

Research uses

Suitable for land cover change monitoring, vegetation dynamics analysis, ecological assessment, climate change impact studies, and natural resource management.

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Keywords

land coverdynamic monitoringMODISEVIAustralia250m resolution

Access and licence

Licence: License statement is still being checked | Free to access

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Why this is hard to get on your own

When seeking nationally consistent, long-term land cover classification data, users often face scattered sources and inconsistent classification standards.

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