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NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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Land Use: Hunter Catchment 2004 - 2005

Land use mapping encompassing the Hunter catchment commenced in February 2006 and was completed in September 2012. The project acquired aerial photography covering discrete areas and affordable high resolution SPOT 5 imagery, which was used to update the previous 2002/2003 land use maping.; ; Land use is classified to three separate classification schemes. These classification schemes are:; ; * NSW Land Use Mapping Program (LUMAP).; * NSW SCALD (Standard Classification for Attributes of Land) Classification; * ALUM (Australian Land Use and Management) Classification.; ; The LUMAP Classification is OEH's (formally DIPNR and DECC) most recent classification for mapping of land use classes for NSW. It is a simple numeric classification, open-ended to enable additional classes to be added. ; ; Prior to LUMAP, the SCALD classification was the standard for mapping of land use in NSW. It is a combined alpha-numeric classification system.; ; The ALUM classification is based upon the modified Baxter & Russell classification and presented according to the specifications contained in www.LUCs.gov.au/land&water/landuse. ; Version 40 of the classification is used to describe the land use classes; ; The date of the data set is set as the land use occurring at the time the aerial photographs were flown with minor changes that have been noted during field inspections and/or appear to differ on the SPOT 5 image.; ; Mapping for this dataset is limited to the 100k topographic sheets of:; Camberwell, Cessnock, Dungog, Gulgong (part), Howes Valley (part), Merriwa, Mt Pomany (part), Mudgee (part), Muswellbrook and Newcastle.; ; Where full sheets have been completed the mapping will extend beyond the Hunter Catchment boundary.

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Field Value
Language English
Edition 2.1
Purpose Natural Resource Management
Frequency of change Unknown
Keywords LAND-Use,Hunter,Catchment,ALUMV7
Field of Research (optional) Natural Resource Management
Metadata Date 2012-11-09
Date of Asset Creation 2012-09-11
Date of Asset Revision 2018-10-08
Date of Asset Publication 2012-11-09
Date of Next Update 2012-09-11
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Equivalent Scale 25000
Vector representation
Record 1
Object type
Curve
Object count
57849
Geospatial Topic Farming
NSW Place Name Hunter
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Dataset extent
Temporal Coverage From 2000-07-01 - 2005-01-12
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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Attribution NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner: "© State Government of NSW and NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water 2012"