PSMA’s recent Release 4 of Geoscape heralded the following milestones:

  • Inclusion for the first time of buildings data for Brisbane, Gold Coast, Wollongong and Hobart
  • The number of buildings contained within the dataset increased by 1.6 million to a total of over 8.8 million
  • Surface cover data at thirty metre resolution for Western Australia was introduced for the first time

In addition to the above, Release 4 saw increased coverage across ACT, NSW, SA, QLD, TAS and WA as follows:

  • Trees at two (2) metre resolution increased to cover 4,087 square kilometres
  • Surface Cover at two (2) metre resolution increased to cover 17,572 square kilometres
  • Surface Cover at thirty (30) metres resolution increased to cover 6,783,000 square kilometres