Resources

Catchment Mapping

Topographic Mapping

Australia-wide topographic map series containing mapping of surface water features are publicly available in digital form at different scales ranging between 1:10,000,000 to 1:250,000 (Table 1).The available national coverage of digital elevation models (DEM) used for hydrological studies is also indicated in this table. Geoscience Australia is the principal custodian of these national topographic datasets. In addition, there are State agencies responsible for topographic mapping at finer scales, say at 1:100,000, 1:50,000 or 1:10,000 within their jurisdiction. Table 1 provides details on the key land mapping agencies at the State and Territory level, including links to metadata relating to their topographic mapping products. Public Sector Mapping Agencies Australia (PSMA) is a government-owned company established to facilitate access to national datasets derived from these multiple government agencies. As well as cadastral and administrative boundaries, this also includes national topographic datasets that contain surface hydrology features, formed by integrating mapping at various scales derived from these agencies.

Table 1: Key State/Territory land mapping agencies
Jurisdiction	Agency	Topographic Information
ACT	ACT Land Information Centre ACT Planning and Land Authority	http://www.actpla.act.gov.au/actlic/digitaldata/index.htm
NSW	Land and Property Information NSW Department of Lands	http://maps.nsw.gov.au/
NT	Land Information Division Department of Planning and Infrastructure	http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/
QLD	Land Management and Use Division Department of Natural Resources Mines and Water	http://www.nrm.qld.gov.au/products/groups.php?group=Products
SA	Division of Environment and Geographic Information Department of Environment and Heritage	http://www.dehaa.sa.gov.au/mapland/spatial_products.html
TAS	Information and Land Services Division Department of Primary Industries, Water and Environment	http://www.dpiw.tas.gov.au/lis/listdata.html
VIC	Spatial Information Infrastructure Department of Sustainability and Environment	http://www.land.vic.gov.au
WA	Land Information Services Division Department of Land Administration	http://www.dola.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf

Table 2: Nationally available mapping of topography and surface hydrology features
Dataset	Hydrological features	Scale	Data Format(s)	Custodian	Data Access
GEODATA TOPO 10M 2002	Drainage - watercourses, lakes, reservoirs	1: 10,000,000	ArcInfo Export ArcView Shapefile MapInfo mid/mif	Geoscience Australia Derived from GEODATA TOPO 250K Series 1	Free online: www.ga.gov.au CD-ROM (fee applies)
TOPO 2.5M 1998	Drainage- canals, water courses, lakes, reservoirs, swamps and offshore features	1: 2,500,000	ArcInfo Export ArcView Shapefile MapInfo mid/mif	Geoscience Australia Derived from GEODATA TOPO 250K Series 1	Free online: www.ga.gov.au CD-ROM (fee applies)
Global Map Australia 1M 2001	Drainage -aqueducts, water courses, inland water bodies	1: 1,000,000	Arc Info Export Arcview Shapefile MapInfo mid/mif Vector Product Format Band Interleaved by Line (BIL)	Geoscience Australia Vector data generalized from GODATA TOPO250K Series 1 United States Geological Survey (USGS) provided raster images	Free online: www.ga.gov.au CD-ROM (fee applies)
VMAP Level 0 (Formerly Digital Map of the World)	drainage	1: 1,000,000	Vector Product Format (VPF)	Geoscience Australia Updated version of National Imagery and Mapping Agency's (NIMA) Digital Chart of the World (DCW). Data derived from 1:1M Operational Navigation Charts	CD-ROM (fee applies)
GEODATA TOPO-250K Series 1 Topographic data	Drainage - watercourses, lakes, wetlands	250,000	GINA ArcInfo DXF MapInfo AS2482	Geoscience Australia Sourced from National Topographic Map Series (NTMS) and Royal Australian Survey Corps Joint Operation Graphics (JOG)	CD-ROM Fee applies
GEODATA TOPO-250K Series 2 Topographic data	Drainage - lakes, reservoirs, swamps, streams, canals	250,000	ArcInfo DXF MapInfo	Geoscience Australia	CD-ROM Fee applies National coverage in progress
NATMAP Raster 250K Mapsheets 2002	Drainage	1:250,000	Enhanced Compressed Wavelet (ECW)	Geoscience Australia Topographic data integrated from state, territory and commonwealth agencies	CD-ROM Fee applies
ROSD	Drainage - watercourse, lakes, reservoirs, canals, swamps	variable	MapInfo mid/mif	PSMA Australia Ltd
Australia's River Basins 1997	Catchments - drainage divisions, regions, basins	1:10,000 1:100,000 1:250,000	ArcInfo Export ArcView Shapefile MapInfo mid/mif	Geoscience Australia Drainage boundaries as defined by the Australian Water Resources Management Committee (WRMC)	Free online: www.ga.gov.au CD-ROM (fee applies)
Nested catchments and subcatchments for the Australian continent	Catchments	1:250,000	ArcInfo Grid	Geoscience Australia Derived from GEODATA 9 second DEM Version 2	Free online: http://adl.brs.gov.au
GEODATA 9 second DEM version 2	Digital Elevation Model	1:250,000	GRIDASCII ASCII XYZ	Geoscience Australia Based on ANUDEM 5.0 elevation gridding program	CD-ROM (Fee applies)
3 and 18 second DEM	Digital Elevation Model	1:250,000	ASCII XYZ	Geoscience Australia	CD-ROM (Fee applies) Part of Australia
Critical Aeronautical Heights 1997	Spot Heights	1:1,000,000	Formatted ASCII XYZ	Geoscience Australia	Free online: www.ga.gov.au CD-ROM (fee applies)

Land Use Mapping

The Australian Collaborative Land Use Mapping Program (ACLUMP) is a partnership of Australian and State government agencies to produce consistent land use information across Australia. Information on ACLUMP and the available land use mapping is available from the Bureau of Rural Sciences.

Vegetation Mapping

BRS Integrated Vegetation Online provides mapping of major vegetation cover types.

Geological Mapping

An overview of geological mapping is provided by Geoscience Australia with the Geoscience Portal facilitating data for mapping, geophysics and borehole data across agencies. These include the State geological surveys, namely: