Extent of cropping, horticulture and plantation forestry in inland northern Australia between 1999 and 2023

The project mapped irrigated and rainfed cropping, horticulture and plantation forestry for the years 1999 and 2023. This was done to be able to determine the change in agricultural land use between 1999 and 2023. The study area is basically all areas north of the Tropic of Capricorn (ToC) and west of the great divide. However, the whole of the Gascoyne, Western Australia has been included and the whole of the Northern Territory (NT) including areas south of the ToC. Off-shore Islands are not included except for the Tiwi Islands (NT). The project has produced two ESRI shapefile files that can be used in a geographic information system (GIS).\nLineage: Land use was confirmed using satellite imagery available in the Geoscience Australia, Digital Earth Australia website. Specifically, Landsat 7 TM for the 1999 dataset and Sentinel 2A for the 2023 dataset. The land use was deemed to have been present if it was visible at any time during the calendar year 1999 or 2023. Cropping that started later than 1999 and subsequently ceased before 2023 has not be mapped or considered and does not appear in this dataset.