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Delivery Format
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Components
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The Surface Cover product will include raster components. The data is separated into each State and Territory, with the exception that ACT and NSW are combined. Also, ACT/NSW includes Jervis Bay Territory raster data. OT includes a subset of the raster data used for ACT/NSW but only for the Jervis Bay Territory area.

Raster data will be made available using only the Tagged Image File Format described below with the AUT tables made available in DBF.

Accompanying the Surface Cover product are two shapefiles, RASTER_INDEX and CAPTURE_DATE_INDEX, that assist in using and navigating the Urban Surface Cover theme. The RASTER_INDEX is comprised of simple polygons that represent the boundaries of Areas of Interest (AOIs). The CAPTURE_DATE_INDEX is comprised of complex polygons grouped by id, state, zone and capture_date attributes.

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Supplied Formats
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GeoTiff
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| **Format name**
| Tagged Image File Format
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| **Specification**
| This format includes files with the following extensions: \*.tif
| A popular image format for storing and manipulating raster graphics images. The latest specification 6.0 was published in 1992 and maintained by Adobe Systems.
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| **Language**
| English

ESRI Shapefile
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| **Format name**
| Shape – ESRI™
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| **Specification**
| This format includes files with the following extensions: \*.shp, \*.shx, \*.dbf
| ESRI Shapefile Technical Description, an ESRI White Paper, July 1998. Follow this link: www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf
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| **Language**
| English