Dataset
Title:Generalised Agricultural Land UseWestern Australia
Custodian:Department of Primary Industry and Regional Development
Jurisdiction:Western Australia
Contact
Contact Role: Custodian
Contact Organisation Name: Department of Primary Industry and Regional Development
Contact Organisation Jurisdiction: Western Australia
Contact Name: Geographic Information Services
Contact Position: Data manager
Mail Address 1: Locked Bag No. 4
Mail Address 2:
Suburb or Place or Locality: Bentley Delivery Centre
State or Locality 2: WA
Country: Australia
Postcode: 6983
Telephone: 08 9368 3925
Facsimile: 08 9474 2405
Electronic Mail Address:
Description
Abstract:This dataset is the generalised agricultural land use map of Western Australia first created in 2004 for the booklet ‘Western Australia’s Agrifood, Fibre, Fisheries and Forestry Industries’. The map has been subsequently updated to reflect changes in land use, in particular the change from sheep to cattle grazing in the Rangelands of Western Australia. This map represents generalised areas of land use only and should not be relied upon for use at scales larger than 1:5, 000, 000.
Search Words:AGRICULTURE Cropping, AGRICULTURE Dairy, AGRICULTURE Horticulture, AGRICULTURE Irrigation, AGRICULTURE Livestock, LAND Use
Geographic Extent:Western Australia.
Data Currency
Beginning Date: 2004
Ending Date: October 2017
Dataset Status
Progress:Complete
Maintenance & Update Frequency:Annually.
Access
Stored Data Format:DIGITAL Oracle Spatial
Available Format Types:DIGITAL Intergraph GeoMedia warehouse, DIGITAL ArcView shapefile,NON DIGITAL Plots and reports
Access Constraints: Subject to data licensing agreement – Creative Commons non-commercial.
Data Quality
Lineage: This dataset was created by using the expert knowledge of specialists within the (then) Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia to delineate broad areas of agricultural land use. More detailed datasets of pastoral lease boundaries and forestry areas have been used to help better define the extent of these land uses.
Positional Accuracy:+ or – 10 km.
Attribute Accuracy:Attribution is based on specialist knowledge of the agricultural industry in Western Australia.
Logical Consistency:Topological errors checked and corrected using GeoMedia Professional.
Completeness:Western Australia.
Metadata Date: 13-10-2017
Additional Metadata
Datum: Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994.
Projection: Geographic coordinates