Australian Natural Resources Information 2002
National Land and Water Resources Audit, 2002
ISBN: 0 642 37131 8
Contents
- Preface
- National Land and Water Resources Audit
- Introduction
- Summary of recommendations
- Building an integrated natural resources information system
- Requirements for natural resource information
- Building the information services
- Streamlined access to consistent, Australia-wide natural resource data
- Finding data for use in natural resource assessments
- Australian Spatial Data Directory
- Finding and using data from Audit projects
- Consistent Australia-wide data for natural resource management
- Case study 1. Land use in Australia
- Case study 2. The Australian Soil Resources Information System
- Case study 3. Australian Dryland Salinity Assessment 2000
- Building Australia-wide natural resource data—the next steps
- Recommendations
- Community access to information
- Cutting the red tape—a landmark national agreement for free access to data
- Australian Natural Resources Atlas— www.environment.gov.au/atlas
- Australian Natural Resources Data Library—adl.brs.gov.au
- Recommendations
- Managing our investment
- Building the natural resources spatial data infrastructure
- Coordinating the development of Australia-wide data to support natural resource decision making
- Recommendations
- Meeting Audit objectives
- Appendix 1. Catalogue of data products from Audit assessments
- References and further reading
- Acknowledgments
- Photo acknowledgments
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National Land and Water Resources Audit
C/- Land & Water Australia
On behalf of the Commonwealth of Australia
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© Commonwealth of Australia 2002
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We invite all interested people, both within and outside Government, to make use of the Audit's reports, information, its Atlas and products. We encourage you to discuss the Audit's findings with the various partners and contributors that have prepared this information.
The Commonwealth accepts no responsibility for the accuracy or the completeness of any material contained in this report and recommends that users exercise their own skill and care with respect to its use.
| Publication data: | 'Australian Natural Resources Information 2002.' |
| ISBN: | 0 642 37131 8 |
| Editing: | Stewart Noble |
| Cover design: | City Graphics |
| Cover photo: | Detail from the digital mosaic created by GEOIMAGE Pty Ltd from 369 Landsat 7 Thematic Mapper images for the year 1999/2000. Landsat data were obtained from Geoscience Australia for the Australian Greenhouse Office's National Carbon Accounting System program. The data can also be viewed through the Audit's Australian Natural Resources Atlas Map Maker at www.environment.gov.au/atlas . |
| Printing: | Goanna Print |
January 2002