LUCAS data
All of Government benefits
The LUCAS programme was funded and approved by Government on the basis that some of the data collected by LUCAS would eventually be made freely available to the wider stakeholder community / general public.
The LUCAS programme is now in a position to do this. A range of satellite imagery, acquired over New Zealand, has been purchased under an All-of-Government licence agreement. This data is now available free of charge to government agencies. The LUCAS land use mapping data is also available to both government agencies and the general public.
Types of data available
SPOTMaps satellite imagery
This high resolution natural colour imagery of New Zealand was captured during 2008 and 2009. With a ground resolution of 2.5m, it represents the highest resolution national data set ever acquired over New Zealand.
For further information, view here.
Land Use Mapping (LUM) Data
This data shows the areal extent and spatial location of land use at points in time.
Download Land Use Mapping Data here.
To find out about New Zealands general approach to land use mapping visit New Zealand land-use mapping.
Last updated: 6 April 2011
