9F5E2062C486505FE0530101007FCA99EnglishData Requests OfficerDepartment of Lands, Planning and EnvironmentGeospatial Services Unit (on behalf of department)Datarequests.DLPE@nt.gov.au2021-09-08AS/NZS ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata, ANZLIC Metadata Profile1.0Development Potential - Mapping the Future Project, Northern Territory. 2020-07-172021-05-25From 2018 to 2022, the Mapping the Future program will map and assess the natural resources capability in strategic locations across the Northern Territory to support land planning, reduce investment decision risk and encourage the private sector to do business in the Territory. Each Mapping the Future project area will be surveyed and mapped to describe general land capability, risk to biodiversity and groundwater resource risk. A separate technical report will be published for each natural resource survey. At the completion of each project, the spatial data will be compiled and a summary report with map products will also be published. The summarised information describes Development Potential and Groundwater Dependent Development Potential. 3 classes are used to describe the Development Potential over the project area - Class 1. Good, Class 2. Moderate and Class 3. Not Recommended. The data has not removed any protected areas from the classes. Eg Parks, Conservation Areas and Reserves. For more information about the Mapping the Future project, view: https://depws.nt.gov.au/DevelopmentOpportunities This information is displayed in NR Maps. View https://nrmaps.nt.gov.au/nrmaps.html Folder: Development Opportunities; Layer: Development Potential.Each project is compiled separately. Links to download reports, maps and spatial datasets are noted in the Development Opportunities website. https://depws.nt.gov.au/DevelopmentOpportunities You are licensed to use the geospatial products on the terms and conditions set out in: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC BY 4.0) at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode If you do not agree to the terms and conditions you must not use the geospatial products. You are free to copy, communicate and adapt the licensed material, provided that you abide by the licence terms (including Attribution) and attribute the licensed material using the statement: Supplied by the Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security. Copyright Northern Territory Government.English-26-101291382020-07-172021-05-25datasetnot knownAs projects are completed, notes will be added to the Lineage component of this metadata record.0not knownThe final polygon dataset was created by dissolving the Biophysical Assessment Classes using the Development Potential Class.0not knownThe data sources used to compile the development potential, Land Capability Classes and the Risk to Biodiversity Classes, are derived from a range of surveys and mapping scales. Refer to associated reports for each project. The data is stored using Geographics, datum GDA94.0not knownThe polygons are attributed according to the Data Dictionary in this metadata record. The attribute naming format uses 10 characters with no spaces to be suitable for an ESRI shape-file format. An alias attribute name is applied to an ESRI file geo-database format.0Completed projects: (includes Development Potential, Groundwater Dependent Development Potential and Biophysical Assessment Classes) - Development Potential in the Gunn Point Area, 2020 - Development Potential in the Wadeye Area, 2021 BIOPHYSICAL ASSESSMENT GROUPS ------------------------------------------------------- 1. Risk to Biodiversity - assessment based on a range of vegetation and biodiversity datasets, site data and field work. 2. General land Capability - soil and land resource survey (usually at a finer scale) and field sites; also usually includes vegetation descriptions. 3. Groundwater Risk - compilation of both groundwater and, where possible, water management information SUMMARY 4. Development Potential - suitable for surface water or rain-fed development with data derived from a compilation of Risk to Biodiversity Classes and Land Capability Classes 5. Groundwater Dependent Development Potential - data derived from a compilation of Development Potential Classes and Groundwater Risk Classes. DATA ANALYSIS ----------------------- Development Potential Classes are derived from a compilation of 2 datasets - General Land Capability Classes and Risk to Biodiversity Classes. - Land Capability Class 1, 2 or Risk to Biodiversity Class 1 & 2 = Development Potential Class 1. - Land Capability Class 3 or Risk to Biodiversity Class 3 & 4 = Development Potential Class 2. - Land Capability Class 4 or Risk to Biodiversity Class 5 = Development Potential Class 3. - Exception: Where bio class 3 & 4 overlaps with any land class, the poorest class of either dataset determines the Development Potential Class. The Development Potential Classes were then compiled with the Groundwater Resource Risk Classes to create Groundwater Dependent Development Potential Classes.