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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

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

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
  • 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
Queensland Government – Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS)

Related documentation

Maintenance and update frequency
Annually
GCMD Science Keywords
  • VEGETATION COVER
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Environmental management
TERN Platform Vocabulary
  • Sentinel-2A
  • Sentinel-2B
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • woody vegetation clearing area
  • Hectare
  • woody vegetation regrowth area
  • Hectare
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Hectare
  • Hectare
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 1 meter - < 30 meters
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • Annual

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
Linkage
https://w3id.org/tern/static/cc-by/88x31.png

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/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

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
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
urn:uuid/2cca982e-961a-445c-a4f1-9e9e596b29b9

Title
TERN GeoNetwork UUID

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
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

Code
10.5281/zenodo.5652221
Website
https://github.com/ternaustralia/TERN-ISO19115/releases/tag/v1.0

 
 

Overviews

Spatial extent

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Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Environmental management
GCMD Science Keywords
VEGETATION COVER

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