Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS) Woody Vegetation Change: Regrowth, Clearing and Reports, Queensland

The Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS) monitors woody vegetation extent and changes in Queensland using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery as its primary tool. This dataset provides annual summaries of woody vegetation clearing and regrowth from the 2018–19 reporting period onward, aligning with an updated Sentinel-2-based methodology introduced in 2018. <br></br> The data is presented as three distinct datasets:<ul> <li>Annual SLATS reports in parquet format, summarising woody vegetation change statistics.</li> <li>Clearing rasters, which map woody vegetation loss detected during each reporting period.</li> <li>Regrowth rasters, which map woody vegetation regrowth identifiable from Sentinel-2 imagery during each reporting period.</li>>/ul> <br></br> Each year’s data corresponds to a nominal August-to-August reporting period. Summary statistics are provided at various spatial scales, including state-wide, administrative boundaries, natural resource management regions, divisions, and other authoritative datasets. <br></br> These datasets includes data from the 2018–19 onwards SLATS reporting periods. It supersedes and is not directly comparable with SLATS data published for reporting periods up to and including 2017–18, due to a methodological change. Note that regrowth was not reported in 2018–19; values for regrowth in that year are represented as zero in the dataset.