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National Scale Land Use Mapping Technical Specifications

Technical information outlining national scale land use mapping has been developed by the Bureau of Rural Sciences (BRS) on behalf of Australian and State Government members of the Australian Collaborative Land Use Mapping Programme (ACLUMP).

National Scale Mapping Procedures and Specifications

National scale land use mapping uses a modelling approach to create relatively less expensive land use maps on the continental scale. The procedures used by BRS to create the most recent national land use maps (for the years 1992/93, 1993/94, 1996/97, 1998/99, 2000/01, 2001/02) using the SPREAD II methodology are outlined in Guidelines for Land Use Mapping in Australia: Principles, Procedures and Definitions (Edition 3). This handbook has been produced on behalf of ACLUMP with its most recent edition released in July 2006. It is the primary reference for the Australian Land Use and Management (ALUM) classification and outlines procedures and specifications for national scale and catchment scale land use mapping in Australia.

Publication	Format
Guidelines for Land Use Mapping in Australia: Principles, Procedure & Definitions - Edition 3	PDF 2.6MB
The Australian Land Use and Management (ALUM) Classification Version 6, June 2005	PDF 13KB	WORD 200KB
Page 0 Metadata for the 1992/93, 1993/94, 1996/97, 1998/99, 2000/01 and 2001/02 Land Use of Australia, Version 3	PDF 30KB

National Scale Mapping Reports

Listed below are reports based on previous national scale land use mapping activities conducted by BRS.

Report	Format
Bureau of Rural Sciences. 2004. Land Use Mapping for the Murray-Darling Basin: 1993, 1996, 1998, 2000 maps, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra.	PDF 2.2MB
Stewart, J.B., Smart, R.V., Barry, S.C. and Veitch, S.M. 2001. 1996/97 (Version 2) Land Use of Australia - Final Report for Project BRR5, National Land & Water Resources Audit, Canberra.	PDF 8.7MB
Bureau of Rural Sciences. 2003. Technical Bulletin NLUM-201103: Regional Land Use Mapping using Satellite AVHRR Data, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra.	PDF 148KB
Bureau of Rural Sciences. February 2006. Co-ordinated Land Use Mapping for Australia: Information for landscape solutions, Science for Decision Makers Brief, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Canberra.	PDF 684KB
Information about land use in Australia (1996/97 Version 2) held on the Australian Natural Resources Atlas (ANRA)	ANRA land use website