Information about land cover classification is available from:

(a) the Bureau of Rural Sciences land cover map, see details on the AACES-1 website.

(b) a Landsat land cover map derived from supervised classification of Landsat data (October 6, November 7 and November 23, 2006)

(c) land cover data collected by merging all available sources of information (HDAS, surveys, aerial photos, vegetation and roughness record) to produce a shapefile describing the land surface conditions in the SMAPEx focus areas, and the boundaries of each paddock have been refined on analysis of LiDAR data.

Data can be downloaded from Download Centre.

NOTE: The first two sources of information have last been updated in 2006, and more detailed land cover maps will be uploaded shortly.