Seminars and Workshops

Introduction

A number of seminars and workshops have been coordinated by the Land and Vegetation Unit of NRETA pertaining to vegetation survey and mapping.

In 2007 a series of seminars and workshops titled 'Vegetation Survey and Mapping in the Northern Territory: Towards an Australia-wide Consensus' have been delivered to Ecologists in Darwin and Alice Springs to promote and encourage the adoption of national standards for classifying and describing vegetation communities.

Several classification systems are being used in the NT to classify and describe vegetation that aren't directly equivalent. Adopting the National Vegetation Information System (NVIS) Classification System and complying with the Australian Soil and Land Survey series revised (2007) Field Handbook (Yellow Book) and Guidelines for Conducting Surveys (Blue Book) will enable future vegetation datasets to be comparable across survey boundaries and State/Territory borders.

A Finer Scale Vegetation Mapping Workshop was also coordinated in 2007 to determine the needs for a standardised finer scale vegetation map of the NT and options for a mapping program to achieve this.

The entire NT vegetation is mapped at 1:1 million, with only 7.5% mapped at between 1:100K and 1:250K and less than 1% less than 1:50K spatial scales. There is an increasing requirement for finer scale, up-to-date and reliable vegetation information in the NT for numerous applications and national reporting requirements.

Pilot projects are underway in the Top End and Arid Regions.

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