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Publications

  • Land use Information for Australia - Brochure
  • Land Use and Land Management Information for Australia Workplan of the Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program  PDF [2.75 KB]
  • ACLUMP Brochure * PDF [746 KB]

2024

  • Land use of Australia 2010-11 to 2020-21
  • Catchment scale land use of Australia - Update December 2023
  • Catchment scale land use of Australia - Commodities - December 2023

2022

  • Land use of Australia 2010–11 to 2015–16, 250 m

2021

  • Catchment scale land use profiles - Interactive dashboards

2020

  • Catchment scale land use of Australia – Update December 2020
  • Catchment scale land use of Australia – Commodities – December 2020​
  • Australia's Agricultural Industries map 2020 

2018

  • Catchment scale land use of Australia - Update December 2018
  • Catchment scale land use of Australia - Commodities - December 2018​

​2017

  • Australian Agricultural Industries map 2017
  • Catchment scale land use of Australia - Update September 2017
  • Catchment scale land use of Australia - Commodities - September 2017

2016

  • The Australian Land Use and Management Classification Version 8
  • Australian Agricultural Industries map 2016
  • Land Use of Australia 2010-11
  • Catchment scale land use of Australia - Update May 2016

2015

  • Land use Information for Australia - Brochure
  • Catchment scale land use of Australia - Update March 2015
  • Addendum to the Guidelines for land use mapping in Australia: principles, procedures and definitions, 4 Edition

2013

  • A scoping assessment for a national research centre addressing land use and food security issues
  • Towards national reporting on land use change in Australia
  • Land use and management: the Australian context

2011

  • Landscape in transition: tracking land use change (Science and Economic Insights-Issues 2011.2.2)
  • Guidelines for land use mapping in Australia: 4th Edition, 2011

2010

  • Land Use in Australia at a Glance  PDF [836 KB]
  • The Australian land use and management (ALUM) classification version 7 summary * PDF [16 KB]
  • The Australian land use and management (ALUM) classification version 7 detailed classification * PDF [200 KB]
  • 2005-06 Land Use of Australia, Version 4

2008

  • Land use: Status of information for reporting against indicators under the National Natural Resource Management Monitoring and Evaluation Framework * PDF [8.3MB]

2006

  • Co-ordinated Land Use Mapping for Australia: Information for landscape solutions, Science for Decision Makers Brief, 2006 * PDF [700 KB]
  • 1992-93, 1993-94, 1996-97, 1998-99, 2000-01 and 2001-02 Land Use of Australia, Version 3
  • National Land Use Maps: 1992/93, 1993/94, 1996/97, 200/01 and 2001.02, Version 3: Technical Report *PDF [1.1 KB]

2004

  • Land Use Mapping for the Murray-Darling Basin: 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000 maps. Baseline land use profiles to support the implementation of the basin Salinity Management Strategy * PDF [2.2 KB]

2003

  • Technical Bulletin: Regional Land Use Mapping using Satellite AVHRR Data, 2003 * PDF [150 KB]

2001

  • 1996-97 (Version 2) Land Use of Australia - Final Report for Project BRR5, 2001 * PDF [8.5 MB]

2024

  • Land tenure of Australia 2010-11 to 2020-21

2021

  • Land tenure of Australia 2010-11 to 2015-16, 250m

2022

  • GEOGLAM RaPP Map online user guide

2020

  • Setting targets for National Landcare Program Monitoring and reporting vegetation cover for Australia PDF [7.7MB]

2018

  • Monitoring ground cover an online tool for Australian regions PDF [4.4MB]

2015

  • Download Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)-derived vegetation fractional cover data and Metrics from the Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Network National Computing Infrastructure (TERN NCI)
  • Download monthly composites of the MODIS-derived fractional cover data from TERN AusCover
  • Assessing the effects of site heterogeneity and soil properties when unmixing photosynthetic vegetation, non-photosynthetic vegetation and bare soil fractions from Landsat and MODIS data - Remote Sensing of Environment 161 (2015), 12-26

2014

  • Land management practice trends in Australia - dataset on the Monitor website
  • Land management practices trends in Australia - brochure
  • Australian ground cover reference sites database package 2014 on Data.gov.au
  • Ground cover monitoring for Australia: Final report July 2012 to June 2013
  • Poster describing new ground cover algorithm - Presented at "Frontiers in Earth Observation for Land System Science" Berlin PDF [2.8 MB]
  • Poster on ground cover products - Presented at "Land transformations: Between global challenges and local realities" Berlin PDF [2.4 MB]

2013

  • Ground cover monitoring for Australia: Progress report July 2011 to June 2012
  • Sampling strategy and selection of ground cover control sites
  • Poster on ground cover remote sensing methods from the Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Network symposium PDF [3 MB]

2012

  • Evaluation of the fractional cover from MODIS  PDF [3.3 MB]
  • Ground cover monitoring for Australia Progress Report to June 2011  PDF [2.1 MB]
  • Progress in national ground cover monitoring for Australian agriculture from the Joint Australian and New Zealand Soil Science Conference Word [192 KB]

2011

  • Field measurement of fractional ground cover: A technical handbook supporting ground cover monitoring for Australia (ACLUMP)  PDF [81 MB]
  • Workshop proceedings from November 2009 Ground cover monitoring for Australia - Establishing a nationally coordinated approach to ground cover mapping
  • Cropping calendars for broadacre crops and improved pastures for natural resource management regions with user guide and metadata

2010

  • Status of Land Management Practices: Activities of the Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program (2010) * PDF [1.5 MB]
  • A national approach to map management practices that improve soil condition (2010) Conference paper PDF [1.3 MB] Conference poster (low resolution) * PDF [1.6 MB]
  • Ground cover management practices in cropping and improved pasture grazing systems: ground cover monitoring using remote sensing * PDF [3.3 MB]
  • Developing national protocols to map ground cover management practices in cropping and grazing systems, Report on an Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program workshop, 12-13 May 2009, Brisbane (2010) * PDF [5.5 MB]
  • Ground cover monitoring for Australia factsheet

  • Review of land/ground cover monitoring in Victoria (2010) *# PDF 2.3 MB]
  • Review of land/ground cover monitoring in New South Wales (2010) *# PDF [784 KB]
    Review of land/ground cover monitoring in New South Wales (2010) *# Word [1.7 KB]

2009

Drivers for land management practices information: State driver reports

  • South Australian State and Regional Requirements for Land Management Practices Information (2009) * PDF [800 KB]

Ground cover monitoring: State reports

  • Review of land cover monitoring in the Northern Territory (2009) *# PDF [1.8 MB]
  • Privately funded contributions to NRM activities in the Goulburn Broken Catchment: testing the "x2 Assumption" (2009) - Victoria *# PDF [2.1 MB]
  • Assessment of ground cover monitoring sites in South Australia (2009) *# PDF [2.7 MB]

2008

Collating land management practices information: State pilot reports

  • Spatial Recording of Land Management Practice Information (LMPI): Documentation of the development and testing of methodologies used to collect LMPI in NSW (2008) *# PDF [550 KB]
  • Developing a Land Use and Management Information System (LUMIS) for the Northern Territory: Report on the Northern Territory Pilot Project *# PDF [5.5 KB]
  • Development and application of remote sensing techniques for detecting and mapping a land management practice: contour banks (2008) - Queensland *# PDF [3.7 MB]
  • Land management monitoring in the agricultural areas of South Australia: Report No 1 (2008) *#
  • Land management monitoring in the agricultural areas of South Australia: Report No 2 (2008) *#
  • Land Management Practices Mapping - A Tasmanian Pilot Study to Develop the Methodology and Test the Feasibility of Statewide Land Management Practice Mapping (2008) *# PDF [549 KB]

2007

Collating land management practices information: State pilot reports

  • LUMIS - the Land Use and Management Information System (2007) * PDF [1.1 MB]

2006

Collating land management practices information: State pilot reports

  • Land management practices: Classification and mapping (2006) - Brochure * PDF [725 KB]

Drivers for land management practices information: State driver reports

  • Requirements for land management practices information in Queensland (2005/06) *# PDF [170 KB]
  • Tasmanian requirements for land management practices information (2005/06) *# PDF [458 KB]

2005

  • Signposts for Australian Agriculture Stage 2a: Refinement of the preliminary framework and industry profiles to include pathways to ESD (2005) *# PDF [642 KB]

Drivers for land management practices information: State driver reports

  • State Wide Needs and Uses for Land Management Practice Information (LMPI): Documentation of the Drivers for LMPI by Natural Resource Management Groups (NSW) (2005) *# PDF [1.3 MB]

2004

  • Towards LUMIS - an agreed national Land Use Management Information System * PDF [97 KB]
  • Land management practices data collections (2004) * PDF [126 KB]
  • Land management practices - why they are important and how we know this (2004) * PDF [356 KB]
  • Land use and land management practices: Concepts, terms and classification principles * PDF [430 KB]
  • Understanding behaviour: Social and economic influences on land practice change (2004) * PDF [170 KB]

  • National Dynamic Land Cover Dataset - Technical Report * PDF [36.2 KB]
  • Classifying Australian land cover (2006) * PDF [964 KB]
  • Monitoring Land Cover Change: Specifications for the remote sensing of agricultural land cover change project 1990-1995 (1998) * PDF [924 KB]

The Queensland Land Use Mapping Program (QLUMP) regularly produce land use change maps and reports as part of their land use summary reports.

2013

  • Towards national reporting on land use change in Australia

2011

  • Landscape in transition: tracking land use change (Science and Economic Insights-Issues 2011.2.2)

2005

  • Land use data integration: the Lower Murray NAP region - a report to the National Land & Water Resources Audit, 2005 PDF [3.3 MB]
  • Land use change poster * PDF [5.2 MB]

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