Identification

Field	Value
Title	Lismore South East LGA Vegetation 2011. VIS_ID 4479
Alternative title(s)	LismoreLGA_2011_E_4479
Abstract	Fine-scale mapping of vegetation, including Endangered Ecological Communities (EECs) and Koala habitat across the Local Government Area (LGA). The mapping fulfills a fundamental requirement for the development of a Biodiversity Management Strategy (BMS) by Lismore City Council. The LGA was divided into three zones, designated by colour, reflecting differing levels of available background information, potential for landuse to conflict with biodiversity objectives and other threats. NPWS Estate including National Parks (NPs), Nature Reserves (NRs) and State Conservation Areas (SCAs) as well as State Forests (SFs) were outside the scope of the mapping project. Original field work was undertaken between November 2010 and June 2011. The mapping project commenced in Nov 2017 using 2009 aerial photography along with Sept 2012 imagery limited to the rural villages of Modanville, Dunoon and Nimbin. From May 2018 onwards the project used high resolution aerial photography taken in April 2018. Vegetation was classified by API mainly on the basis of spatial patterns, texture and colour calibrated by field observations. Non-plantation vegetation polygons were assigned to vegetation units on the basis of canopy dominant species. Vegetation communities were placed in Keith formations and classes. Vegetation condition was also recorded. Each vegetation polygon was assigned to a Koala habitat category based only on flora species present. A list of EECs reported or considered likely to occur in the LGA were also derived. A reliability code was allocated to each mapped polygon, according to the source of the data and/or the manner in which data was collected. VIS_ID 4479
Resource locator
Data Quality Statement	Name: Data Quality Statement Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Description: Data quality statement for Vegetation of Lismore South East Local Government Area, 2011. VIS 4479 Function: download
Download Package	Name: Download Package Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Description: Data and Documents Function: download
WMS	Name: WMS Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Description: Web Map Service Function: download
REST Service	Name: REST Service Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Description: ESRI REST Services Function: download
Unique resource identifier
Code	1ddc2788-ffc1-4488-b30c-891a94e21f6f
Presentation form	mapDigital
Edition	1
Dataset language	eng
Metadata standard
Name	ANZLIC Metadata Profile: An Australian/New Zealand Profile of AS/NZS ISO 19115:2005, Geographic information - Metadata
Version	1.1
Dataset URI	https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/1ddc2788-ffc1-4488-b30c-891a94e21f6f
Purpose	To map fine-scale vegetation in Lismore LGA
Status	completed
Spatial representation
Type	vector
Spatial reference system
Authority code	GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
Code identifying the spatial reference system	4283
Spatial resolution	10 m
Additional information source	This replaces Lismore LGA vegetation map, 2008 (VIS_ID 20). Ref:Stewart, B., McKinley, A., Murray, A., and Hall. P. 2011. Vegetation mapping for the Lismore Local Government Area. Unpublished report for Lismore City Council. Landmark

Classification of spatial data and services

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Topic category

Keywords

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Keyword set
keyword value	BOUNDARIES-Biophysical ECOLOGY-Habitat ECOLOGY-Community FLORA-Native VEGETATION
Originating controlled vocabulary
Title	ANZLIC Search Words
Reference date	2008-05-16
Geographic location
West bounding longitude	153.07374
East bounding longitude	153.44998
North bounding latitude	-29.0706
South bounding latitude	-28.52135
NSW Place Name	Lismore
Vertical extent information
Minimum value	-100
Maximum value	2228
Coordinate reference system
Authority code	urn:ogc:def:cs:EPSG::
Code identifying the coordinate reference system	5711
Temporal extent
Begin position	2009-01-01
End position	N/A
Dataset reference date
Date type	publication
Effective date	2021-07-22
Date type	revision
Effective date	2017-01-11
Resource maintenance
Maintenance and update frequency	None
Contact info
Organisation name	Lismore City Council
Responsible party role	pointOfContact

Quality and validity

Field	Value
Lineage	The aim of the project was to produce fine scale vegetation mapping for the ‘Green Zone’ of the Lismore LGA identifying vegetation communities, endangered ecological communities and koala habitat. The mapping was to be completed using LPI high resolution digital photography. At the time the project was commissioned, aerial photography available for the study area was limited to the LGA-wide 2009 series (used for the 2011 vegetation mapping project). The project commenced in November 2017 using 2009 aerial photography, along with September 2012 imagery limited to the rural villages of Modanville, Dunoon and Nimbin. From May 2018 onwards, the project used high resolution aerial photography taken in April 2018. The project team comprised Annette McKinley (Landmark), Barbara Stewart (Landmark), Andrew Murray (A.S. Murray & Associates), and Wendy Neilan (LCC). Annette McKinley and Andrew Murray undertook the GIS work. Vegetation map derived from existing mapping, species lists, Scientific Committee Determinations for EECs, GIS layers (air photos, soils and geology, drainage, cadastre, zoning, landform, flood level). Existing mapping and species lists were used for reference; however, for consistency it was judged advisable and most efficient to apply the image analysis, air photo interpretation and field checking methods of the current project in the same manner across all vegetation in the study areas. 2021: Lismore Council requested the vegetation layer be made available to the public via SEED. Running through a topology check to include it in DPIE corporate systems it was found to have thousands of overlap errors (mainly minute slivers). The dataset was resupplied back to Landmark. Andrew Murray manually fixed each error and provided a clean dataset. To make sure, the ET GeoWizard tools "Clean Polygon Layer" was run over it again and this only showed one multi polygon that required splitting. Sliver gaps were not eliminated because, by nature of the fragmented vegetation coverage, there were too many valid gaps to do this assessment.

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The aim of the project was to produce fine scale vegetation mapping for the ‘Green Zone’ of the Lismore LGA identifying vegetation communities, endangered ecological communities and koala habitat. The mapping was to be completed using LPI high resolution digital photography. At the time the project was commissioned, aerial photography available for the study area was limited to the LGA-wide 2009 series (used for the 2011 vegetation mapping project). The project commenced in November 2017 using 2009 aerial photography, along with September 2012 imagery limited to the rural villages of Modanville, Dunoon and Nimbin. From May 2018 onwards, the project used high resolution aerial photography taken in April 2018.

The project team comprised Annette McKinley (Landmark), Barbara Stewart (Landmark), Andrew Murray (A.S. Murray & Associates), and Wendy Neilan (LCC). Annette McKinley and Andrew Murray undertook the GIS work.

Vegetation map derived from existing mapping, species lists, Scientific Committee Determinations for EECs, GIS layers (air photos, soils and geology, drainage, cadastre, zoning, landform, flood level).

Existing mapping and species lists were used for reference; however, for consistency it was judged advisable and most efficient to apply the image analysis, air photo interpretation and field checking methods of the current project in the same manner across all vegetation in the study areas.

2021: Lismore Council requested the vegetation layer be made available to the public via SEED. Running through a topology check to include it in DPIE corporate systems it was found to have thousands of overlap errors (mainly minute slivers). The dataset was resupplied back to Landmark. Andrew Murray manually fixed each error and provided a clean dataset. To make sure, the ET GeoWizard tools "Clean Polygon Layer" was run over it again and this only showed one multi polygon that required splitting. Sliver gaps were not eliminated because, by nature of the fragmented vegetation coverage, there were too many valid gaps to do this assessment.

Constraints related to access and use

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Limitations on public access

Data Quality

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Scope	dataset

Responsible organisations

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Responsible party
Contact position	Data Broker
Organisation name	Lismore City Council
Responsible party role	pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Field	Value
Metadata point of contact
Contact position	Data Broker
Organisation name	Lismore City Council
Responsible party role	distributor
Metadata date	2016-11-13
Metadata language	eng

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