Australian Vegetation Attribute Manual
National Vegetation Information System, Version 6.0
Executive Steering Committee for Australian Vegetation Information (ESCAVI)
Department of the Environment and Heritage, 2003
ISBN 0 642 54953 2
Section Three: Attributes Defined and Described
- Notes on Section 3
- Data Set Level Attributes (list)
- Map Unit Level Attributes (list)
- Vegetation Description Level Attributes (list)
- Detailed Vegetation Attributes (list)
- Supplementary Taxon Information (list)
- Descriptions of NVIS Attributes
Notes on Section 3
- Section 3 is generated from an XML text master file by formatting scripts.
- The descriptive fields can be added or removed for display purposes.
- The attributes describe those fields necessary to describe vegetation and do NOT describe the primary and secondary key fields needed to implement a working database.
- The terminology (sub-)stratum should be interpreted as follows: sub-stratum (for level VI data) and/or stratum (for level V data).
Data Set Level Attributes
Reference Information
- DS01 ----- DATA SET NAME
- DS02 ----- DATA SET NUMBER
- DS03 ----- VEGETATION THEME CODE
- DS04 ----- VEGETATION THEME CONSTRAINTS
- DS05 ----- ANZLIC METADATA IDENTIFIER
- DS06 ----- ANZLIC METADATA NAME
- DS07 ----- ANZLIC METADATA URL
Vegetation Attribute Methods and Accuracy
- DS08 ----- STRUCTURAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM
- DS09 ----- FLORISTIC GROUP TYPE
- DS10 ----- CLASSIFICATION METHOD
- DS11 ----- SAMPLING TYPE
- DS12 ----- BOTANICAL EXPERTISE
Spatial Methods, Positional Accuracy and Usable Scales
- DS13 ----- POSITIONAL ACCURACY
- DS14 ----- POSITIONAL ACCURACY DETERMINATION
- DS15 ----- POSITIONAL ACCURACY MEASURE
- DS16 ----- MAP PUBLICATION SCALE
- DS17 ----- FINEST SCALE
- DS18 ----- BROADEST SCALE
Summary of Survey and Mapping Methods and Accuracy
- DS19 ----- SURVEY AND MAP RELIABILITY
- DS20 ----- START DATE_ATTRIBUTE
- DS21 ----- END DATE ATTRIBUTE
- DS22 ----- START DATE_SPATIAL
- DS23 ----- END DATE SPATIAL
Map Origins (Methods and Sources)
- MS01 ----- MAPPING SOURCE NUMBER
- MS02 ----- MAPPING METHOD
- MS03 ----- MAPPING EXPERTISE
- MS04 ----- IMAGERY SOURCE
- MS05 ----- IMAGERY SCALE
- MS06 ----- IMAGERY RESOLUTION
- MS07 ----- MAP SOURCE EXTENT
- MS08 ----- DELINEATION MEDIUM
- MS09 ----- START_DATE_SOURCE
- MS10 ----- END DATE SOURCE
- MS11 ----- MAP BASE
References
Map Unit Level Attributes
Reference Information
- MU01 ----- MAP UNIT IDENTIFIER
Descriptive Information
- MU02 ----- SPATIAL MIX
- MU03 ----- MOSAIC TYPE
- MU04 ----- NUMBER OF VEGETATION DESCRIPTIONS
- MU05 ----- VEG DESCRIPTION POSITION
- MU06 ----- VEG DESCRIPTION PROPORTION
Vegetation Description Level Attributes
Reference Information
Descriptive Information
- VG04 ----- LEVEL OF DETAIL
- VG05 ----- NUMBER OF STRATA
- VG06 ----- LEVEL 1 (CLASS)
- VG07 ----- LEVEL 2 (STRUCTURAL FORMATION)
- VG08 ----- LEVEL 3 (BROAD FLORISTIC FORMATION)
- VG09 ----- LEVEL 4 (SUB-FORMATION)
- VG10 ----- LEVEL 5 (ASSOCIATION)
- VG11 ----- LEVEL 6 (SUB-ASSOCIATION)
- VG12 ----- SOURCE DESCRIPTION
- VG13 ----- ENVIRONMENTAL DESCRIPTION
Detailed Vegetation Attributes
Structural Information
- ST01 ----- STRATUM CODE
- ST02 ----- SUB-STRATUM RANK
- ST03 ----- NUMBER OF GROWTH FORMS
- ST04 ----- NUMBER OF TAXA
- ST05 ----- COVER TYPE
- ST06 ----- COVER TYPE DERIVATION METHOD
- ST07 ----- COVER MINIMUM VALUE
- ST08 ----- COVER MAXIMUM VALUE
- ST09 ----- COVER MEDIAN VALUE
- ST10 ----- COVER MEAN VALUE
- ST11 ----- COVER CODE
- ST12 ----- HEIGHT TYPE
- ST13 ----- HEIGHT TYPE DERIVATION METHOD
- ST14 ----- HEIGHT MINIMUM VALUE
- ST15 ----- HEIGHT MAXIMUM VALUE
- ST16 ----- HEIGHT MEAN VALUE
- ST17 ----- HEIGHT MEDIAN VALUE
- ST18 ----- HEIGHT CLASS
- ST19 ----- DOMINANT STRATUM FLAG
Taxon Data
- TD01 ----- TAXON DATA RANK
- TD02 ----- TAXON DATA DESCRIPTION
- TD03 ----- TAXON DATA SOURCE CODE
- TD04 ----- COVER TYPE
- TD05 ----- COVER TYPE DERIVATION METHOD
- TD06 ----- COVER MINIMUM VALUE
- TD07 ----- COVER MAXIMUM VALUE
- TD08 ----- COVER MEDIAN VALUE
- TD09 ----- COVER MEAN VALUE
- TD10 ----- TAXON DATA DOMINANCE QUALIFIER
- TD11 ----- TAXON DATA FREQUENCY
- TD12 ----- TAXON DATA ALWAYS THERE
- TD13 ----- TAXON DATA SUMMARY FLAG
Growth Form Information
- GF01 ----- GROWTH FORM RANK
- GF02 ----- GROWTH FORM CODE
- GF03 ----- COVER TYPE
- GF04 ----- COVER TYPE DERIVATION METHOD
- GF05 ----- COVER MINIMUM VALUE
- GF06 ----- COVER MAXIMUM VALUE
- GF07 ----- COVER MEDIAN VALUE
- GF08 ----- COVER MEAN VALUE
- GF09 ----- GROWTH FORM DOMINANCE QUALIFIER
- GF10 ----- GROWTH FORM FREQUENCY
- GF12 ----- GROWTH FORM ALWAYS THERE
- GF13 ----- GROWTH FORM SUMMARY FLAG
Supplementary Taxon Information
Taxon List Origin Information
- TO01 ----- TAXON LIST ORIGIN CUSTODIAN
- TO02 ----- TAXON LIST ORIGIN STATE
- TO03 ----- TAXON LIST ORIGIN DETAILS
Taxon Source Information
- TL01 ----- TAXON LISTS SOURCE CODE
- TL02 ----- TAXON LISTS FAMILY
- TL03 ----- TAXON LISTS GENUS
- TL04 ----- TAXON LISTS SPECIES
- TL05 ----- TAXON LISTS AUTHOR
- TL06 ----- TAXON LISTS INFRASPECIES RANK
- TL07 ----- TAXON LISTS INFRASPECIES
- TL08 ----- TAXON LISTS INFRASPECIES AUTHOR
- TL09 ----- TAXON LISTS COMMON NAME
- TL10 ----- TAXON LISTS REFERENCE