Cooper Eromanga Basin NVC Vegetation Clearance and Offsets - Significant Environmental Benefit - Landscape Context Score

Created: 07 Jan 2025 Revised: 15 Jan 2025

The Rangelands Desktop Assessment Tool (DAT) is an application to rapidly assess Native Vegetation Council (NVC) Significant Environmental Benefit (SEB) values for clearance and offset applications in the Cooper-Eromanga Basin region. The Rangelands DAT method uses a combination of information derived from the existing Rangelands Assessment Manual (RAM) and Scoresheet method (Native Vegetation Branch 2017), Flora and fauna communities of the Cooper-Eromanga Basin study (Hobbs et al. 2017), and Landsat satellite fractional cover and water observations from space data.

This application dramatically reduces the cost of assessments by virtually eliminating the need for on-ground surveys and detailed reports required under the existing RAM and Scoresheet method. The Rangelands DAT application also provides uniform and consistent assessment results which eliminates biases or errors which would result from field observations influenced by variations in seasonal conditions or consultants' knowledge, interpretation and ecological skills. Rangelands DAT information is available at a minimum spatial resolution of 30 metres.

The NVC SEB Unit Biodiversity Score (UBS) is used to by the state government to measure the value of areas of native vegetation to the environment and South Australian community. NVC SEB UBS values are product of Vegetation Condition Score (VCS) multiplied by a Landscape Context Score (LCS) factor and a Conservation Significance Score (CSS) factor. For smaller application areas (<10ha in size) the SEB Total Biodiversity Score is simply calculated as the average UBS across all vegetation types multiplied by the total number of hectares.

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About this record

Record No	mesac93
Topic	Environment
Type of Resource	Dataset
Category Type	Environmental Sciences Geospatial Information Systems Natural Resource Management
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Tenement
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Language	English
Metadata Standard	ISO 19115-3

Citations

Use constraints	License
License	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Persistent identifier	https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/dataset/mesac93
Citation	Cooper Eromanga Basin NVC Vegetation Clearance and Offsets - Significant Environmental Benefit - Landscape Context Score https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/dataset/mesac93

Technical information

Status	Completed
Maintenance and Update Frequency
Geographic Reference	GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
Geo bounding box	{"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[141.1,-25.9],[138.9,-25.9],[138.9,-29.6],[141.1,-29.6],[141.1,-25.9]]]}
Purpose	This data is designed to enable desktop-based assessments of Native Vegetation Council Significant Environmental Benefit values for potential native vegetation clearance and offset activities within the Cooper-Eromanga Basin. To provide a rapid... This data is designed to enable desktop-based assessments of Native Vegetation Council Significant Environmental Benefit values for potential native vegetation clearance and offset activities within the Cooper-Eromanga Basin. To provide a rapid and scientifically-consistent methodology of assessing Vegetation Condition, Landscape Context and Conservation Significance values within north-eastern rangelands of South Australia. More +
Lineage	Based on methodology described by Hobbs TJ, Wenham D, Herrmann T, Brandle R, Maconochie J, Baird G, Schutz A, Howell S, Spencer J, Owen J, Fitzgerald L, Bowen Z & Wood H (2018). Environmental values in the Cooper-Eromanga Basin, DEW Technical... Based on methodology described by Hobbs TJ, Wenham D, Herrmann T, Brandle R, Maconochie J, Baird G, Schutz A, Howell S, Spencer J, Owen J, Fitzgerald L, Bowen Z & Wood H (2018). Environmental values in the Cooper-Eromanga Basin, DEW Technical report 2018/04, Government of South Australia, Department for Environment and Water & Department for Energy and Mining, Adelaide. Data sources: Hobbs TJ, Armstrong D, Wenham D, Howell S, Spencer J, Maconochie J, Facelli F, Brandle R, Bowen Z & Fitzgerald L (2017). Flora and fauna communities of the Cooper-Eromanga Basin, DEWNR Technical report 2017/23, Government of South Australia, Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources & Department of the Premier and Cabinet, Adelaide; DEW Biological Databases of South Australia (2017); Atlas of Living Australia (2016); Landsat satellite imagery (1987-2017); Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia (2015). Positional accuracy:0.000278 degrees Attribute accuracy:Consistent with the Native Vegetation Council Rangelands Assessment Manual and Scoresheet (28/02/2018). Logical consistency:Consistent with the Native Vegetation Council Rangelands Assessment Manual and Scoresheet (28/02/2018). Data is gridded at ~30 m cell size and interpretations should not be made at scales less than this. More +

Attribute details

Name	Definition
Pixel value	Landscape Context Score (LCS)
Count	Number of cells