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Multi-Criteria Analysis Shell for Spatial Decision Support (MCAS-S) Data Packages 

Ver: 1.0
Status of Data: onGoing
Update Frequency: asNeeded
Security Classification: unclassified
Record Last Modified: 2025-12-02
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Dataset Created: 2017-07-20
Dataset Published: 2022-02-15
Data can be accessed from the following links:
HTTPPoint-of-truth metadata URLHTTPro-crate-metadata.jsonHTTPMCAS-S data download utilityHTTPDirect link to data
How to cite this collection:
Howorth, J. & Randall, L. (2022). Multi-Criteria Analysis Shell for Spatial Decision Support (MCAS-S) Data Packages. Version 1.0. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. https://dx.doi.org/10.25901/5e5f5651856ae 
This collection contains the data used in the Multi-Criteria Analysis Shell for Spatial Decision Support (MCAS-S) software tool. From the Data menu, explore and download individual supplementary layers, or download the entire datapack. The Multi-Criteria Analysis Shell for Spatial Decision Support (MCAS-S) is a software tool developed by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences that enables multi-criteria analysis (MCA) using spatial data. It is a powerful, easy-to-use and flexible decision-support tool that promotes: - framework for assessing options
- common metric for classifying, ranking and weighting of the data
- tools to compare, combine and explore spatial data
- live-update of alternative scenarios and trade-offs. 
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. Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program (ACLUMP, https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/aclump/about-aclump) and its project partners. 
Purpose
TERN provides the MCAS-S data download utlity as a partner in the Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program (ACLUMP, https://www.agriculture.gov.au/abares/aclump/about-aclump). 
Lineage
Data not provided. 
Method DocumentationData not provided.
Procedure StepsData not provided.
Australia
Temporal Coverage
From 2011-06-01 to on going 
Spatial Resolution

Data not provided.

Vertical Extent

Data not provided.

Data Quality Assessment Scope
The MCAS-S datapacks are convenient packages of nationally consistent Australian spatial layers at one-kilometre and five-kilometer resolutions ready for use in MCAS-S. The Datapack is comprised of three types of data: Primary (raster), Mask (raster) and Overlay (vector) data. 
Data Quality Report
Data not provided. 
Data Quality Assessment Outcome
Australian national map layers have been provided by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES), Geoscience Australia, CSIRO Land and Water, the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (Environmental Resources Information Network), the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and the National Centre for Social Applications of Geographic Information Systems. 
ANZSRC - FOR
Agricultural land management
Agricultural spatial analysis and modelling
Land use and environmental planning
GCMD Sciences
BIOSPHERE - AGRICULTURAL LANDS
CLIMATE INDICATORS - LAND SURFACE/AGRICULTURE INDICATORS
HUMAN DIMENSIONS - LAND MANAGEMENT
LAND SURFACE - LAND USE/LAND COVER
Horizontal Resolution
1 km - < 10 km or approximately .01 degree - < .09 degree
Parameters
present land use
Temporal Resolution
Annual
Topic
boundaries
economy
environment
farming
planningCadastre
Author
Howorth, Jasmine
Randall, Lucy
Contact Point
Paget, Matt
Publisher
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
ACLUMP and MCAS-S project pages
ABARES metadata for 2011 datapack
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