Northern Territory Pastoral Property Infrastructure

Index:

Metadata
Citation
Description

Dataset Status
Data Quality
Contact Information
Data Dictionary
Supplementary Information

Metadata Details:

Name:AS/NZS ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata, ANZLIC Metadata Profile

Version:1.0

Date Metadata Extracted:2025-06-18

Date Metadata Last Updated:2022-09-09

Current URL (HTML format) : http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=html&metadata_id=FDA37469EA14CE7BE040CD9B21447B32

Current URL (XML format) : http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=xml&metadata_id=FDA37469EA14CE7BE040CD9B21447B32

Citation

ANZLIC Identifier:FDA37469EA14CE7BE040CD9B21447B32

Title: Northern Territory Pastoral Property Infrastructure

Citation Date:2005-01-01

Date Type:publication

Custodian:Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security

Description

Abstract:

This spatial dataset contains infrastructure details on pastoral properties within the Northern Territory Pastoral Estate; this includes those properties where the Tenure Type description is Pastoral Lease or Perpetual Pastoral Lease. The infrastructure types includes vehicle tracks, fence lines, paddocks, watering points, pipelines and buildings. Northern Territory compilation datasets are maintained using geometry types as points, lines and polygons.

The data is referred to as Northern Territory Pastoral Property Infrastructure and is collected and collated by the Northern Territory Government Rangelands Monitoring Branch (RMB) and managed by the Director of Land Development Coordination.

Important: Data may not be current and should not be relied upon.

ANZLIC Search Words:

structure

transportation

Spatial Domain:

Bounding Coordinates:

North Bounding Coordinate:-10

South Bounding Coordinate:-26

East Bounding Coordinate:138

West Bounding Coordinate:129

Dataset Status

Dataset ID:

Language:English

Character Set: Latin 1

Progress:onGoing

Maintenance and Update Frequency:continual

Data Currency Start Date:2021-07-08

Data Currency End Date:

Access Constraint:This information is available for use by the Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security and Emergency Services.
Other NTG users should seek access to the data via the Manager of Rangeland Monitoring Branch or the Director of Land Development Coordination.
All other users must supply written permission from pastoral property owner/manager.
Request spatial datasets via email DataRequests.DEPWS@nt.gov.au

LICENCE TERMS AND CONDITIONS
The Northern Territory of Australia does not warrant that the product or any part of it is correct or complete and will not be liable
for any loss, damage or injury suffered by any person as a result of its inaccuracy or incompleteness.

When using this data, please attribute the material using the statements;
Data may not be current and should not be relied upon.
Supplied by the Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security. Copyright, Northern Territory Government

Data Quality

Lineage:- Prior to 8/07/2021, the spatial data was collected by Rangelands Monitoring Branch (RMB) and sent to Department of Infrastructure, Planning and Logistics (DIPL). The data was managed using Microstation DGN file formats. DIPL also created several map products (PDF) at a range of data scales.
- On 8/07/2021 DIPL supplied data to RMB in ESRI shapefile formats
- As part of the RMB data compilation process, the features were clipped to the Northern Territory Pastoral Estate and compiled into 3 datasets using geometry types: points, lines and polygons. Paddocks (polygons) were cleaned to remove any overlaps. Spatial data is stored in Oracle ESRI SDE servers (File geodatabase formats). As data is updated, all archived features will also be stored in the servers.
- Oracle views display only the latest property information (based on the field DATE_CURR partitioned by each property name. The views are available to NTG users.

Positional Accuracy:Important: The data may not be current and should not be relied upon. The position of the features may not be accurate.

The features in this dataset have been collated over many years using various methods including on-ground recording devices and hand drawn via map screens using a range of drawing software tools. Originally, the data was collected as suitable for use with 1:250,000 topographic maps. Over time the features have been drawn using recent imagery backgrounds and smaller scales.
- Fence lines may not be coincident with pastoral property boundaries. Cadastral property boundaries in remote areas are described as +/- 1000 m in the Digital Cadastral Database. Refer to metadata record - www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=html&metadata_id=2DBCB7711FB906B6E040CD9B0F274EFE
- Since 2019, GPS points have collected via mobile devices with an accuracy threshold set to +/-5m.
- Prior to 2019, GPS points were collected with a hand held GPS (Garmin) device +/-15m, and a mobile device with unknown accuracy.
- Tracks are recorded inside a vehicle and an in-built offset is applied.

Attribute Accuracy:Important: Data may not be current and should not be relied upon. Refer to the Data Dictionary in this metadata record.

Where DATE_CURR = 8/07/2021 denotes that this is the first version of the compilation dataset. There may be errors in this data version.
This data has a confidence rating of 4 - Trusted external source with no desktop verification.

Logical Consistency:Polygons are single part. Topology rules have been applied to FEATURE = Paddock to not have any overlaps. These polygons will have coincident intersecting edges. All other features have been merged.

Completeness:Data may not be current and should not be relied upon.
The datasets are continually updated. Refer to field: DATE_INSP. (the property inspection date).

Contacts

Name Organisation Position Role Phone Fax Email

Data Requests Officer Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security Geospatial Services Branch (on behalf of department) distributor datarequests.depws@nt.gov.au

Name	Organisation	Position	Role	Phone	Fax	Email
Data Requests Officer	Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security	Geospatial Services Branch (on behalf of department)	distributor			datarequests.depws@nt.gov.au

Data Dictionary

Attribute Attribute Description Possible Code Code Description

01. OBJECTID A unique identifier created for every feature in the spatial dataset.

02. FEATGROUP Alias: Feature Group
Infrastructure features are grouped as follows;

- Points: Aviation, Building, Cultural, Hydro, Transport, Water
- Lines: Cultural, Transport, Water
- Polygons: Aviation, Cultural

03. FEATURE The type of infrastructure feature includes the following;

- Points: Aerial or Tower, Bore, Dam, Gate, General building, General cultural feature, Homestead, Landing ground, Pump out point, Spring, Stock yard, Trough, Turkey nest, Underground mine, Water tank, Waterhole
- Lines: Cleared line, Fenceline, Vehicle track, Water pipeline
- Polygons: General cultural feature, Landing strip, Quarry

04. LABEL Several features have text labels to use for mapping display.

NOTE: To display paddock details refer to the polygon dataset where Feature = "Paddock".
Field: LABEL + Field: AREA_KM2. For example: BUNTINE PDK 95.6km2

05. DATE_INSP Alias: Date Inspected
The date that the Rangelands Monitoring Branch staff inspected the pastoral property. The date does not indicate that the individual feature was inspected.

06. DATE_CURR Alias: Date Current
This date is applied by the Rangelands Monitoring Branch when the information is processed and the data is updated in department servers. Regardless of whether a feature was edited, all features for a property will have the same currency date.
DATE_CURR = 8/07/2021 is the first version of the compilation dataset.
All archived features, with the previous currency date, will be stored in department servers.

07. DISTRICT Alias: Pastoral District
Each property is within a designated Northern Territory Pastoral Property District.
District names: Barkly, Darwin, Gulf, Katherine, Northern Alice Springs, Plenty, Roper, Southern Alice Springs, Sturt Plateau, Tennant Creek, V.R.D.

08. PROPERTY Alias: Pastoral Property
All features are assigned with the pastoral property name. This name matches the Northern Territory Cadastre.
For example: AILERON

09. PROP_TAG Alias: Property Tag
A 3 letter identifier used by the department for data management purposes.
For example: ALN

10. SOURCE Alias: Data Source
The information is compiled by the Rangelands Monitoring Branch, Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security.

11. CONFIDENCE Alias: Confidence rating
Where DATE_CURR = 8/07/2021 denotes that this is the first version of the compilation dataset. There may be errors in the data. This data has a confidence rating of 4.
1 NTG Rangelands Monitoring Branch - point derived using GPS with desktop verification.

2 NTG Rangelands Monitoring Branch - desktop assessment only.

3 Trusted external source with NTG Rangelands Monitoring Branch desktop verification.

4 Trusted external source with no desktop verification.

12. LENGTH_M Alias: Length (M)
All line features will contain a linear measure in metres.

13. AREA_KM2 All polygon features will contain an area measure in km2 calculated using Albers projection

14. MAPDISPLAY Yes / No.
The value is used by NTG Rangelands Monitoring Branch to indicate whether the feature will be displayed on the map product. In some areas where features are tightly grouped, it may be too difficult to display all the features at the desired map scale.

Attribute	Attribute Description	Possible Code	Code Description
01. OBJECTID	A unique identifier created for every feature in the spatial dataset.
02. FEATGROUP	Alias: Feature Group Infrastructure features are grouped as follows; - Points: Aviation, Building, Cultural, Hydro, Transport, Water - Lines: Cultural, Transport, Water - Polygons: Aviation, Cultural
03. FEATURE	The type of infrastructure feature includes the following; - Points: Aerial or Tower, Bore, Dam, Gate, General building, General cultural feature, Homestead, Landing ground, Pump out point, Spring, Stock yard, Trough, Turkey nest, Underground mine, Water tank, Waterhole - Lines: Cleared line, Fenceline, Vehicle track, Water pipeline - Polygons: General cultural feature, Landing strip, Quarry
04. LABEL	Several features have text labels to use for mapping display. NOTE: To display paddock details refer to the polygon dataset where Feature = "Paddock". Field: LABEL + Field: AREA_KM2. For example: BUNTINE PDK 95.6km2
05. DATE_INSP	Alias: Date Inspected The date that the Rangelands Monitoring Branch staff inspected the pastoral property. The date does not indicate that the individual feature was inspected.
06. DATE_CURR	Alias: Date Current This date is applied by the Rangelands Monitoring Branch when the information is processed and the data is updated in department servers. Regardless of whether a feature was edited, all features for a property will have the same currency date. DATE_CURR = 8/07/2021 is the first version of the compilation dataset. All archived features, with the previous currency date, will be stored in department servers.
07. DISTRICT	Alias: Pastoral District Each property is within a designated Northern Territory Pastoral Property District. District names: Barkly, Darwin, Gulf, Katherine, Northern Alice Springs, Plenty, Roper, Southern Alice Springs, Sturt Plateau, Tennant Creek, V.R.D.
08. PROPERTY	Alias: Pastoral Property All features are assigned with the pastoral property name. This name matches the Northern Territory Cadastre. For example: AILERON
09. PROP_TAG	Alias: Property Tag A 3 letter identifier used by the department for data management purposes. For example: ALN
10. SOURCE	Alias: Data Source The information is compiled by the Rangelands Monitoring Branch, Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security.
11. CONFIDENCE	Alias: Confidence rating Where DATE_CURR = 8/07/2021 denotes that this is the first version of the compilation dataset. There may be errors in the data. This data has a confidence rating of 4.	1	NTG Rangelands Monitoring Branch - point derived using GPS with desktop verification.
		2	NTG Rangelands Monitoring Branch - desktop assessment only.
		3	Trusted external source with NTG Rangelands Monitoring Branch desktop verification.
		4	Trusted external source with no desktop verification.
12. LENGTH_M	Alias: Length (M) All line features will contain a linear measure in metres.
13. AREA_KM2	All polygon features will contain an area measure in km2 calculated using Albers projection
14. MAPDISPLAY	Yes / No. The value is used by NTG Rangelands Monitoring Branch to indicate whether the feature will be displayed on the map product. In some areas where features are tightly grouped, it may be too difficult to display all the features at the desired map scale.

Supplementary Information

This record maintained using the NTLIS Metadata Tool

Metadata : Northern Territory Pastoral Property Infrastructure