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Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS) Woody Vegetation Change: Regrowth, Clearing and Reports, Queensland 

Ver: 2
Status of Data: onGoing
Update Frequency: annually
Security Classification: unclassified
Dataset Published: 2023-08-04
Dataset Last Modified: 2026-08-18
Metadata viewed 70 times
Dataset accessed 30 times
Metadata Created: 2025-07-14
Metadata Last Modified: 2026-08-19
How to cite this collection:
Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Queensland Government (2023). Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS) Woody Vegetation Change: Regrowth, Clearing and Reports, Queensland. Version 2. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. https://portal.tern.org.au/metadata/2cca982e-961a-445c-a4f1-9e9e596b29b9 
Data can be accessed from the following links:
HTTPSLATS Annual Reports in Parquet format
WMSwoody_vegetation_change
HTTPLandscape Data Visualiser - Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS) Woody Vegetation Change: Regrowth, Clearing and Reports, Queensland
HTTPWoody Vegetation Clearing raster data files
HTTPWoody Vegetation Regrowth raster data files
HTTPPoint-of-truth metadata URL
HTTPro-crate-metadata.json
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.

The data is presented as three distinct datasets:
  • Annual SLATS reports in parquet format, summarising woody vegetation change statistics.
  • Clearing rasters, which map woody vegetation loss detected during each reporting period.
  • Regrowth rasters, which map woody vegetation regrowth identifiable from Sentinel-2 imagery during each reporting period.
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    Each year’s data corresponds to a nominal August-to-August reporting period. Summary statistics are provided at various spatial scales, including state-wide, administrative boundaries, natural resource management regions, divisions, and other authoritative datasets.

    These datasets 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.
 
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. 
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. 
Lineage
Data not provided. 
Method DocumentationData not provided.
Procedure StepsData not provided.
Spatial Description
Queensland 
Temporal Coverage
From 2018-08-01 to on going 
Spatial Resolution

Distance of 10 Metres

Vertical Extent

Data not provided.

ANZSRC - FOR
Environmental management
Data Stream
Satellite Remote Sensing
GCMD Sciences
VEGETATION - VEGETATION COVER
Horizontal Resolution
1 meter - < 30 meters
Parameters
woody vegetation clearing area
woody vegetation regrowth area
Platforms
Sentinel-2A
Sentinel-2B
Project
Others
TERN Landscapes
Temporal Resolution
Annual
Topic
environment
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
Author
Department of the Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Queensland Government
Contact Point
Data Enquiries, Earth Observation and Social Sciences (EOSS)
Data Enquiries, SLATS
Publisher
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Queensland Government – Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS)
Supplemental Information
Data not provided. 
Resource 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 slatsxtab 
Environment Description
Data not provided. 
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