Previously vegetation and land resource projects mostly delivered land systems, land units and coarse scale vegetation mapping. These projects are either at too small a scale to be useful for property level management or have been conducted in an ad-hoc property based manner with some properties not addressed or neighbouring properties conducted using different classification creating significant edge effects.

The NT Government is moving towards a more strategic approach to the design, execution and delivery of land resource information, and towards maximising information delivery from our existing data. To this ends we are developing many corporate databases to collate and store our historical and future land information data.

Additionally NRETAS is starting to develop a strategic framework for the delivery of land information in a consistent manner. This is likely to take the form of a hierarchical stratification based on bioregions, landform pattern and element, soil type, geology and vegetation attributes. It is anticipated that this framework will accommodate existing data and provide a ecosystem stratification from which a range of land and ecological information can be reported. The methodology used to implement this data delivery framework will be variable as a result of the vast variability of land resource data available throughout the territory, but is likely to include objective remote sensing methods, API and GIS analysis. This process and framework is evolving and we will be in a better position to report on its form at the time of the conference.