DEMs and Contours
DATA SOURCE |
WEB PAGE ADDRESS |
NAME |
RESOLUTION |
FORMAT |
COST |
DESCRIPTION |
NASA |
SRTM3 |
90 metre |
HGT |
Free |
The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) obtained elevation data on a near-global scale to generate the most complete high-resolution digital topographic database of Earth. SRTM consisted of a specially modified radar system that flew onboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour during an 11-day mission in February of 2000. |
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National Elevation Data Framework Portal |
http://nedf.ga.gov.au/geoportal/catalog/main/home.page
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Various |
Various |
Various |
Various |
The National Elevation Data Framework (NEDF) was developed to ensure that decision makers, investors and the community have access to the best available elevation data to address the needs of today and the decades ahead.
The NEDF-Portal has been developed to serve as a 'Virtual Data Repository' and on-line portal that allows easy discovery and access to existing elevation data holdings and metadata. The NEDF-Portal will progressively be populated with data and links to national, state, local and commercial data custodians. |
ASTER Global Digital Elevation Model |
http://www.gdem.aster.ersdac.or.jp/index.jsp
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ASTER GDEM |
30 metre |
TIFF |
Free |
ASTER GDEM is an easy-to-use, highly accurate DEM covering all the land on earth, and available to all users regardless of size or location of their target areas. |
Vicmap Elevation |
http://www.land.vic.gov.au/Land/lcnlc2.nsf/childdocs/DA7CA8ABA02855EB4A256A50000DE72D?open |
DEM |
20 metre |
ESRI Grid |
Annual License Fee |
State-wide high resolution (20m) digital elevation model (DEM) showing Victoria's state-wide terrain surface |
http://services.land.vic.gov.au/landchannel/content/vicmapdata?productID=14 |
1-5 Contours & Relief |
N/A - Contours |
Shape, Mid/Mif, DXF, Tab & DWG |
$21.28 to$75.72 per area |
1-5 Metre is a source elevation dataset from Melbourne Metropolitan Board of Works surveys conducted in the 1970s and 1980s. Generally 1 metre coverage but some locations have only 2 or 5 metre contours |
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http://services.land.vic.gov.au/landchannel/content/vicmapdata?productID=5 |
10-20 Contours & Relief |
N/A - Contours |
Shape, Mid/Mif, DXF, Tab & DWG |
$5.55 to $316.66 per area |
10m contours (20m in steep terrain), spot heights, surface features (eg. cliffs, levee banks) |
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MapConnect |
Contours |
N/A - Contours |
Variety including ESRI Shape and Mapinfo Mid/Mif |
Free |
50 metre contours extending across most areas of Australia extracted from 1:250,000 topographic maps |
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Discover Information Geographically |
APP_DATA.DEM_9S_DATA |
250 metres |
ESRI Grid |
Free |
This data is a national digital elevation model (DEM) of Australia with a grid spacing of 9 seconds in longitude and latitude (approx. 250 m). The source data were 5 million point elevations captured from 1:100 000 scale topographic mapping as well as stream and waterbody information derived from 1:250 000 scale topographic mapping. |
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Australia, Contours at 20 metre Intervals |
N/A - Contours |
ESRI Shape |
Free |
Contours covering all of continental Australia at 20 metre intervals derived from the 9 second Digital Elevation Model of Australia. |
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Wet Tropics Digital Elevation Model (DEM) 100m |
100 metres |
ArcInfo ASCII Grid |
Free |
A DEM in a 100 metre grid covering the wet tropics area, this includes the Daintree, Barron, Johnstone, Tully, Herbert and Murray catchments. |
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Wet Tropics Digital Elevation Model (DEM) 25m |
25 metres |
ArcInfo ASCII Grid |
Free |
A DEM in a 25 metre grid covering the wet tropics area, this includes the Daintree, Barron, Johnstone, Tully, Herbert and Murray catchments. |
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Whitsunday Digital Elevation Model (DEM) 100m |
100 metres |
ArcInfo ASCII Grid |
Free |
A DEM in a 100 metre grid covering the whitsunday area, this includes the Proserpine, O'Connell, Pioneer & Plane catchments. |
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Whitsunday Digital Elevation Model (DEM) 25m |
25 metres |
ArcInfo ASCII Grid |
Free |
A DEM in a 25 metre grid covering the whitsunday area, this includes the Proserpine, O'Connell, Pioneer & Plane catchments. |
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Australia 1:10,000,000 Topographic Data TOPO10M - Contour Lines |
N/A - Contours |
ESRI Shape |
Free |
This data has been derived primarily from GEODATA TOPO 250K Series 1 and includes contour information. |
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Australia 1:2,500,000 Topographic Data TOPO2.5M - Contour Lines |
N/A - Contours |
ESRI Shape |
Free |
This data has been derived from GEODATA TOPO 250K Series 2 data where it was available (else GEODATA TOPO 250K Series 1). All features have been revised in 2003 and have double precision accuracy. The product consists of eleven layers, including contours. |
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Australia 1:5,000,000 Topographic Data TOPO5M - Contour Lines |
N/A - Contours |
ESRI Shape |
Free |
This data is a vector representation of the Australian landscape as represented on the Geoscience Australia 1:5M general reference map. The product consists of eleven layers including contours. |
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Australia, 1/40th Degree Digital Elevation Model (DEM) |
45 metres |
ArcSDE raster dataset |
Free |
The 1/40th degree Digital Elevation Model (DEM) for Continental Australia. The gridding technique ensures that the DEM has a connected drainage structure by automatically removing spurious pits or sinks. |
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Australia, Contours at 100 metre Intervals (derived from 9 second DEM) |
N/A - Contours |
ESRI Shape |
Free |
Contours covering all of continental Australia at 100 metre intervals derived from the 9 second Digital Elevation Model of Australia. |
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Australia, Contours at 50 metre Intervals (derived from 9 second DEM) |
N/A - Contours |
ESRI Shape |
Free |
Contours covering all of continental Australia at 50 metre intervals derived from the 9 second Digital Elevation Model of Australia. |
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Australia, Digital Elevation Model (DEM) 9 seconds |
250 metres |
ArcSDE raster dataset |
Free |
This data is a national digital elevation model (DEM) of Australia with a grid spacing of 9 seconds in longitude and latitude (approx. 250 m). |
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Australian Bathymetry and Topography |
250 metres |
ArcInfo Grid |
Free |
Bathymetric data grid of those parts of the Australian water column jurisdiction lying between 92E & 172E and 8S & 60S. |
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Geodata TOPO 250K Series 3 - Elevation Contours |
N/A - Contours |
ESRI Shape |
Free |
Contours derived from 1:250,00 topographic maps |
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NSW DTDB landform theme medium scale contours |
N/A - Contours |
ESRI Shape |
Free |
This theme contains contours and spot heights from the NSW Topographic Archive. The partitions correspond to 1:25000, 1:50000 and 1:100000 mapping areas represented on the Australian National Map Sheet Breakdown System. Of these 982 are complete. |
Watercourses / Streams
DATA SOURCE |
WEB PAGE ADDRESS |
FORMAT |
COST |
DESCRIPTION |
Vicmap Hydro |
http://services.land.vic.gov.au/landchannel/content/vicmapdata?productID=4 |
Shape, Mid/Mif, DXF, Tab & DWG |
$5.55 to $33.24 per area |
Vicmap Hydrography provides an accurate representation of natural and man made Hydrographic features across Victoria, at a capture scale of 1:25,000. It includes watercourses, water areas and points, navigation points and water structures |
MapConnect |
Variety including ESRI Shape and Mapinfo Mid/Mif |
Free |
Points, lines, polylines and polygons of natural and man-made water features extracted from 1:250,000 topographic maps. |
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NASA SRTM WBDF |
ESRI Shape |
Free |
An SRTM Water Body file is a polygon GIS file (usually a *shp file) that contains SRTM Water Body features including Lakes and Ocean polygons. |
Land Use
DATA SOURCE |
WEB PAGE ADDRESS |
FORMAT |
COST |
DESCRIPTION |
VicMap Planning |
http://services.land.vic.gov.au/landchannel/content/vicmapdata?productID=19 |
Shape, Mid/Mif, DXF, Tab & DWG |
$5.50 to $51.01 per area |
Vicmap Planning represents the land use zone and overlay controls for all Victorian planning schemes. It is aligned to Vicmap Property or natural features (eg drainage lines, contours, vegetation boundaries). The Urban Growth Boundary indicates the long-term limits of urban development in metropolitan Melbourne, including the Mornington Peninsula. It includes planning scheme zone polygons & attributes planning scheme overlay polygons & attributes urban Growth Boundary lines urban Growth Boundary polygons code list for zones & overlays |
Land Use of Australia, Version 3 - 2001/2002 (National Scale) |
http://adl.brs.gov.au/anrdl/php/full.php?fileidentifier=a_luav3r9eg__00112a06.xml |
ArcInfo grids (0.01 degree grid size) |
Free |
The 2001/02 Land Use of Australia, Version 3, is part of a series of land use maps of Australia for the years 1992/93, 1993/94, 1996/97, 1998/99, 2000/01 and 2001/02. National scale mapping gives an overview of land use activities and is useful for modelling processes at a continental or broad regional scale. |
National Catchment Scale Land Use |
http://adl.brs.gov.au/mapserv/landuse/land_use_data.html#table2 |
ESRI Grids or polygons |
Free |
Catchment scale mapping (approx 1:25 000 scale for irrigated and peri-urban areas; 1:100 000 scale for broadacre cropping regions;1:250 000 scale for the semi-arid and arid pastoral zone). Catchment scale mapping is completed or underway for over 90% of the continent. Also incorporates a combined Australian dataset at a 50 metre resolution. |
Soils
DATA SOURCE |
WEB PAGE ADDRESS |
FORMAT |
COST |
DESCRIPTION |
Australian Soil Resource Information System |
ESRI shape file |
Free |
ASRIS provides online access to the best publicly available information on soil and land resources in a consistent format across Australia. It provides information at seven different scales: •The upper three scales provide general descriptions of soil types, landforms and regolith across the continent. •The lower scales provide more detailed information in regions where mapping is complete. Information relates to soil depth, water storage, permeability, fertility, carbon and erodibility. Most soil information is recorded at five depths. •The lowest scale consists of a soil profile database with fully characterised sites that are known to be representative of significant areas and environments. Currently only Level 1 and 2 attribute layers are available for download. Level 3 to 5 will be made available as soon as an agreement is reached with the custodians of the data. |
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Imagery
DATA SOURCE |
WEB PAGE ADDRESS |
NAME |
RESOLUTION |
FORMAT |
COST |
DESCRIPTION |
VicMap - Aerial Photography 2005-06 |
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0.15 metres to 1 metre |
ECW and Tiff |
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Provides ortho-photo imagery for five ortho-photo projects across Victoria of varying resolutions, spectral bands, date of capture and project area |
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VicMap - Aerial Photography 2006-07 |
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0.08 metres to 0.5 metres |
ECW and Tiff |
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Provides ortho-photo imagery for seven ortho-photo projects across Victoria of varying resolutions, spectral bands, date of capture and project area |
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Skyview WA |
http://www.landgate.wa.gov.au/corporate.nsf/web/Orthorectified+Digital+Images |
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ECW and JPEG |
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Landgate offers orthorectified digital aerial photographic images at varying resolutions. These images cover a large portion of Western Australia. |
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