Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS) Woody Vegetation Change Report
The Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS) monitors woody vegetation extent and changes in Queensland using Sentinel-2 satellite imagery as its primary tool. This dataset provides annual summaries of woody vegetation clearing and regrowth from the 2018–19 reporting period onward, aligning with an updated Sentinel-2-based methodology introduced in 2018.
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The data is presented as annual time series summaries, with each year’s data corresponding to a nominal August-to-August reporting period. Summary statistics are provided at the state-wide scale, as well as for administrative boundaries, natural resource management regions and divisions, and other authoritative datasets.
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This multi-year dataset includes data from the 2018–19 onwards SLATS reporting periods. It supersedes and is not directly comparable with SLATS data published for reporting periods up to and including 2017–18, due to a methodological change. Note that regrowth was not reported in 2018–19; values for regrowth in that year are represented as zero in the dataset.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2023-08-04
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-08-04
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-11
- Edition
- 1
Publisher
Author
Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Queensland Government
41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, 4102, Queensland, Australia
Dutton Park
Queensland
4102
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- SLATS supports the Vegetation Management Framework in Queensland and a range of biodiversity conservation, natural resource management, and natural disaster policies, planning and initiatives.
- Credit
- We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Queensland Government - Data Enquiries, Earth Observation and Social Sciences (EOSS) ()
41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, 4102, Queensland, Australia
41 Boggo Road
Dutton Park
Queensland
4102
Australia
Point of contact
Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Queensland Government - Data Enquiries, SLATS ()
41 Boggo Road, Dutton Park, 4102, Queensland, Australia
41 Boggo Road
Dutton Park
Queensland
4102
Australia
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Imagery base maps earth cover
Extent
- Description
- Queensland
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2018-08-01
- Title
- Queensland Government – Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS)
- Website
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Queensland Government – Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS)
Related documentation
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Annually
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
Resource specific usage
- Specific usage
- These files are provided in Parquet format to support efficient querying and integration into analytical workflows. This data is a cross-tabulation with many millions of records. Users can browse and interact with the dataset summaries using the R package instructions provided on <a href="https://jrsrp.gitlab.io/themes/woody/woody_change/slats/slatsxtab/">slatsxtab</a>
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- File name
- 88x31.png
- File description
- CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
- File type
- png
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br />Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN. <br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
- Other constraints
- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
- OnLine resource
- SLATS Annual Reports in Parquet format
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Resource lineage
- Statement
- This dataset is derived from Sentinel-2 satellite imagery and processed using the post-2018 SLATS methodology. Annual changes in woody vegetation extent are detected and summarised spatially and statistically. A detailed explanation of the change detection approach is available in the SLATS methodology documentation.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Title
- Statewide Landcover and Trees Study – Methodology overview v1.3
- Website
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https://www.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0022/613507/slats-methodology-overview.pdf
Method documentation
Process step
- Description
- A clearing event is mapped where the crown cover was greater than 10% and the stand size was at least 0.5 hectares. All native and non-native woody vegetation is included, regardless of height, age, or species. For reporting purposes, the cleared areas are then aggregated by region, including statewide (Queensland), administrative boundaries, natural resource management (NRM) regions, and other authoritative spatial datasets.
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:3577
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/2cca982e-961a-445c-a4f1-9e9e596b29b9
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/2cca982e-961a-445c-a4f1-9e9e596b29b9
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2025-07-14T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-11T22:28:27.883170+00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
- Title
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
- Date (published)
- 2021
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Overviews
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Associated resources
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