Description: <DIV STYLE="text-align:Left;"><DIV><DIV><P><SPAN>LUC AggCells:</SPAN></P><P><SPAN>2023 land-use map of Northland according to the Australian Land Use and Management (ALUM) Classification Version 8 (https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/aclump/land-use/alum-classification). "The Australian Land Use and Management (ALUM) Classification system provides a nationally consistent method to collect and present land use information for a wide range of users across Australia. The latest version (Version 8) of the classification conforms to the Australian Spatial Data Infrastructure (ASDI) standard for land use datasets and is also available as an environmental vocabulary service or glossary." "The ALUM Classification version 8 includes fields to collect commodity and land management practice information. These fields allow consistent recording of more detailed information about crops, livestock and management techniques which can be determined at the time of mapping. This information allows further distinction within a land use class such as separating tree fruits into bananas and mangoes. It is also particularly useful in responding to or preparing for biosecurity incidents." See: ABARES 2016, The Australian Land Use and Management Classification Version 8, Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences, Canberra. CC BY 3.0. ISBN: 978-1-74323-310-8. ABARES project: 115063-43590. This classification system has been applied to Northland in the absence of an equivalent classification system for application in New Zealand. It provides a three-level hierarchy of land-use information with six primary classes of land use that are distinguished in order of generally increasing levels of intervention or potential impact on the natural landscape. 1. Conservation and Natural Environments: Land is used primarily for conservation purposes, based on the maintenance of essentially natural ecosystems already present. 2. Production from Relatively Natural Environments: Land is used mainly for primary production based on limited change to the native vegetation. 3. Production from Dryland Agriculture and Plantations: Land is used mainly for primary production, based on dryland farming systems. 4. Production from Irrigated Agriculture and Plantations: Land is used mainly for primary production, based on irrigated farming. 5. Intensive uses: Land is subject to substantial modification, generally in association with closer residential settlement, commercial or industrial uses. 6. Water: Although primarily land cover types, water features are regarded as essential to the classification. However, class 2 is not applied. ALUM can be converted to other classiifcation systems, including ANZSIC. The classification information is captured in three fields: "lu_coden" (numerical ALUM land use code, e.g. 331); "lu_code" (ALUM land use code, e.g. 3.3.1); "lu_description" (controlled description of land-use, e.g. "Cereals"). In addition, other attributes are captured according to the ALUM schema and controlled vocabularies: - Commodity type, a controlled vocabulary of terms to describe commodities of agricultural systems, such as horticultural crops, dairy cattle, etc. This is represented in the data structure by the field "commod_desc". - Management practice, a controlled vocabulary of terms to describe management practices of agricultural systems, such as irrigation regimes. This is represented in the data structure by the field "manage_desc". - Source scale, field "source_scale". - Source date, field "source_date", the date the source data was published. - Source data, field "source_data", the name or means of the primary source of data (although typically only one is given, often the decision is made by corroboration across multiple sources of data from various sources). Examples are "MWLR", "NRC LiDAR". - Confidence, field "confidence", the confidence in classification of the feature. A qualitiative value between 1–4: 1=Very confident, 2=Confident, 3=Reasonably confident, 4=Not very confident. - Other comments, field "comments". - Date of land-use classification, field "luc_date".</SPAN></P></DIV></DIV></DIV>
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