Land use of Australia 2010–11 to 2020–21

The Land use of Australia 2010–11 to 2020–21 data package consists of seamless continental rasters that present land use at national scale for 2010–11, 2015–16 and 2020–21 and the associated change between each target period. Non-agricultural land uses are mapped using 7 thematic layers, derived from existing datasets provided by state and territory jurisdictions and external agencies. These 7 layers are: protected areas, topographic features, land tenure, forest type, catchment-scale land use, urban boundaries, and stock routes. The agricultural land uses are based on the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ 2010–11, 2015–16 and 2020–21 agricultural census data; with spatial distributions modelled using Terra Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) satellite imagery and training data, assisted by spatial constraint layers for cultivation, horticulture, and irrigation.
Land use is specified according to the Australian Land Use and Management (ALUM) Classification version 8. The same method is applied to all target periods using representative national datasets for each period, where available. All rasters are in GeoTIFF format with geographic coordinates in Geocentric Datum of Australian 1994 (GDA94) and a 0.002197 degree (~250 metre) cell size.
The Land use of Australia 2010–11 to 2020–21 data package is a product of the Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program. This data package replaces the Land use of Australia 2010–11 to 2015–16 data package, with updates to these time periods.