Rates of land cover change in Australia 1990/91-95

A collaborative project was established to document changes in Australia's forest cover (woody vegetation with a height exceeding 2 metres and a crown cover density of 20 percent or more) over the period 1990-95. Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) data for 1990/91 and 1995 were used in conjunction with vegetation and a range of ancillary data sets to establish: the extent of woody vegetation in Australia's more intensively used agricultural areas in 1990, the rates of clearing of this woody vegetation and tree planting 1990/91-1995, and the reasons for clearing and planting, and the types of vegetation cleared.