DIRECTORY ENTRY: AgForward

AgForward, an initiative of AgForce Queensland, was initially established with funding from the Queensland Government to help primary producers and landholders interpret the Vegetation Management Act 1999.

Since commencing in May 2005, AgForward has successfully assisted many producers and landholders with vegetation management and grown to meet the needs of producers in the areas of GPS and Computer Mapping technologies, through structured, nationally accredited workshops.

AgForests, a joint initiative between AgForce Queensland and Timber Queensland, was added to AgForward’s portfolio in 2007.

AgForward’s training performance was recognised when it took out the prestigious “Education Project” Award at the 2007 Red Meat Innovation Awards.

AgForward has exceptional capacity in GIS and mapping technologies to provide property owners with a number of GIS/mapping products and support.  Datasets available for property owners include:

• Regional Ecosystem version 6
• Remnant Map Datasets
• High Value Regrowth Vegetation version 2
• Regrowth Vegetation Datasets
• Property Boundaries
• GLM Land Types version 2.2
• Landsat imagery (25m) from 1988
• SPOT5 2005/06 2.5m (eastern NRMs) and 10m (western NRMs) imagery
• SPOT5 2009 2.5m imagery (eastern Qld, UTM Zones 55 and 56)