Land use mapping - 1999 to 2013 - Maranoa and Balonne

This dataset is a digital land use map of the Maranoa and Balonne River catchments, Queensland. As near as possible it shows land use in 2013. The dataset is a product of the Queensland Land Use Mapping Program (QLUMP) and was produced by the Queensland Government. The dataset comprises an ESRI vector geodatabase at a nominal scale of 1:50,000. The layer is a polygon dataset with each class having attributes describing land use. Land use is classified according to the Australian Land Use and Management Classification (ALUMC) Version 7, May 2010. Five primary classes are identified in order of increasing levels of intervention or potential impact on the natural landscape. Water is included separately as a sixth primary class. Under the three-level hierarchical structure, the minimum attribution level for land use mapping in Queensland is secondary land use. Primary and secondary levels relate to land use (i.e. the principal use of the land in terms of the objectives of the land manager). The tertiary level includes data on commodities or vegetation, (e.g. crops such as cereals and oil seeds). Where requiredand possible, attribution is performed to tertiary level. QLUMP maps the land use classes of sugar and cotton to tertiary level. A representation is available for users to apply a symbology to the land use data, by secondary ALUMC. The areas mapped as cropping and irrigated cropping include features such as tracks and drainage lines which are too small to be mapped separately at the scale of 1:50,000.