Datasets

National Flow Direction Grid

The National Flow Direction Grid is the national coverage of flow direction for all of Australia.

The Flow Direction Grid is a regular grid of surface flow directions accompanying the GEODATA 9 Second Digital Elevation Model (DEM) Version 3. It ascribes to each DEM point one of eight cardinal directions (E, SE, S, SW, W, NW, N, NE) denoting the direction of surface flow from each grid point to one of its eight immediate neighbours.

National Coordinates

The accurate position of highly stable reference stations across the nation is fundamental to all location-based technologies used in Australia. The resulting outputs of the National Positioning Infrastructure (NPI) Capability and national observations and measurements are the 3D (horizontal and vertical) coordinates of these reference stations maintained by the Commonwealth and States and Territories.

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National Vegetation Information System

The NVIS framework was developed to enable the compilation of a nationally consistent vegetation dataset from data collected by states and territories. It provides a comprehensive means of describing and representing vegetation information based on establishing relationships between structural and floristic data. The NVIS Information Hierarchy is a system for describing the structural and floristic patterns of groups of plants in the landscape.

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