FSDF Themes & Datasets

The Foundation Spatial Data Framework (FSDF) provides a common reference for the assembly and maintenance of Australian and New Zealand foundation level spatial data in order to serve the widest possible variety of users. It will deliver a national coverage of the best available, most current, authoritative source of foundation spatial data which is standardised and quality controlled. The FSDF is an ANZLIC sponsored initiative.

FSDF Datasets

Below is a list of all the datasets by theme.

Full Excel spreadsheet is available here.

Theme	Dataset Name	Dataset Custodian	Dataset Description
Geocoded Addressing	Geocoded National Address File	PSMA Australia Limited	G-NAF validates the captured address and makes it possible to verify a physical address and locate its position.
Geocoded Addressing	Postal Address File	Australia Post	A physical or virtual address used by a recipient for the purposes of receiving correspondence through Australia Post.
Administrative Boundaries	Jurisdictional Boundaries	PSMA Australia Limited	Jurisdictional boundaries are a collection of legislative, regulatory, political and general administrative boundaries sourced from Federal, State and Territory authorities
Administrative Boundaries	Australian Statistical Geographical Standards Boundaries	Australian Bureau of Statistics	The geographical boundaries that divide the area of interest on which the statistics are collected
Administrative Boundaries	Australian Electoral Boundaries	Australian Electoral Commission	The geographical boundaries that divide the area of interest for the purposes of an election or referendum
Administrative Boundaries	Maritime Boundaries	Geoscience Australia	The delineation of the baseline from which the outer limits of the various maritime zones are measured
Positioning	Station Coordinates and Maps	Geoscience Australia	Coordinates of sites within the Australian Regional GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) Network (ARGN), South Pacific Regional GNSS Network (SPRGN), AuScope Network and the Asia-Pacific Reference Frame (APREF). Weekly station coordinates from these sites can be found on the Geoscience Australia anonymous FTP server in SINEX and PDF format along with a summary file. These weekly solutions are based on a combination of the 7 daily solutions and are aligned to the IGS08 reference frame which is the IGS realization of ITRF2008.
Place Names	National Gazetteer of Australia	Geoscience Australia	A geographical index or dictionary of the names of cultural and physical features and their associated location in Australia.
Land Parcel and Property	Land Parcels	PSMA Australia Limited	Contains a seamless national database of cadastral boundaries, excluding easements and road drainage easements, and parcel identifiers which are compatible with jurisdictional land titles.
Land Parcel and Property	Land Tenure	PSMA Australia Limited	Hierarchical classification of land parcels; aligning land tenure classifications to cadastral parcel identifiers
Imagery	Low Resolution	Geoscience Australia	This imagery has been collected at the National level since the 1970s and includes MODIS, AVHRR, VIIRS sensors carried on satellites which capture image data at specific frequencies across the electromagnetic spectrum.
Imagery	Medium Resolution	Geoscience Australia	This imagery has been collected at the National level since 1979 and includes MSS, TM, ETM+, Aster and OLI sensors carried on satellites which capture image data at specific frequencies across the electromagnetic spectrum.
Imagery	High Resolution	Geoscience Australia	This imagery has been collected at a Local / Regional level since 1998, Regional level since 2005 and National level since 2009 and includes data obtained from SPOT, ALOS and HyMap sensors carried on satellites which capture image data at specific frequencies across the electromagnetic spectrum.
Imagery	Very High Resolution	State and Territory Jurisdictions	This is airborne imagery that has been collected at a National level from 1947-1988 and at Regional and Urban levels since the 1970s.
Transport	Roads	PSMA Australia Limited	Defined paths for the transfer of goods or movement of vehicles and people. They do not have fixed tracks for vehicular movement like a railway. Includes foot tracks, cycleways and ferry routes.
Transport	Railways and Railway Stations	PSMA Australia Limited	Transport systems using one or more rails to move vehicles carrying freight or passengers.
Transport	Airports and Airfields	PSMA Australia Limited	Defined areas intended to be used for the arrival, departure and surface movement of aircraft and associated cargo, and the transfer of goods and passengers from one form of transport to the air network (and vice versa).
Transport	Navigational Aids and Obstacles - Land	Geoscience Australia	Variable forms of markers or devices that aid travellers in determining their position or safe course. Includes transmission lines, buildings, radio towers and masts, skyscrapers, chimneys on power plants. (Note this may be an information product rather than a dataset).
Transport	Crossing	PSMA Australia Limited	Structures built to facilitate transport over or under another physical feature. Includes bridges, tunnels, fords, culverts and boardwalks.
Transport	Traffic Control Devices	PSMA Australia Limited	Structures used to control, calm, slow or impede the movement of traffic on another transport feature.
Water	Surface Hyrdology		The Surface Hydrology dataset provides a set of related feature classes to be used as the basis of the production of consistent hydrological information.
Water	Catchments Boundaries	Geoscience Australia	Catchments Boundaries represent geographic surface boundaries that have a hydrological relationship to surface hydrology features.
Water	Hydrological Obstacles	Geoscience Australia	Hydrological Obstructions are manmade features that impact the water network either by obstruction, diversion or storage of water.
Water	Flow Direction Grid	Department of Agriculture and Water Resources	A national regular grid of surface flow directions accompanying the GEODATA 9 Second Digital Elevation Model Version 3
Water	Groundwater	Bureau of Meteorology	Nationally consistent set of groundwater boundaries and properties including aquaifer boundaries, geomertry, salinity, yield and hydraulic conductivity.
Water	Groundwater Bores	Bureau of Meteorology	National consistent set of bores information including purpose (ie monitoring, irrigation and commercial water use) as well as lithology, construction and hydrostratigraphy logs, 2D and 3D aquifer geometry.
Water	Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems	Bureau of Meteorology	Ecological and hydrogeological information on known groundwater dependent ecosystems and ecosystems that potentially use groundwater
Elevation and Depth	1 Second Derived DEM	Geoscience Australia	National DEM provides a national authoritative digital representation of the Earth’s surface
Elevation and Depth	50m Multibeam Dataset	Geoscience Australia	Provides and understanding of the nature of the seafloor.
Elevation and Depth	Coastal Zone		Various depictions of the coast ranging from lowest tide to highest tide.
Land Cover and Land Use	Dynamic Land Cover	Geoscience Australia	Provides nationally consistent land cover information at 250 metre resolution. It is essential to understanding and addressing a range of national challenges such as drought, salinity, water availability and ecosystem health.
Land Cover and Land Use	Fractional Ground Cover	CSIRO	Is the fraction of an area that is covered by a specific cover type such as green or photosynthetic vegetation, non-photosynthetic vegetation (i.e. stubble, senescent herbage, leaf litter) or bare soil/rock.
Land Cover and Land Use	National Vegetation Information System	Department of the Environment	It provides a comprehensive means of describing and representing vegetation information based on establishing relationships between structural and floristic data.
Land Cover and Land Use	National Forest Inventory	Department of Agriculture and Water Resources	Describes the extent and distribution of Australia's major forest types
Land Cover and Land Use	National Topographic Data	Geoscience Australia	Contains elements that form key constraints in defining various land cover data sets and also provides data for mapping the built environment.
Land Cover and Land Use	Australian Collaborative Land Use and Management Program (ACLUMP)	Department of Agriculture and Water Resources	Land use mapping provides nationally consistent land mapping at catchment and national level.