What can I do?
The Plantation Assessment Information System provides information on plantation assessment projects in Australia. This information includes the projects, reports, maps, species and data. You can find information about plantation assessment projects, view the reports and display maps. Regional summaries will also be provided soon. You can also look at maps of the data for a region that are created using an Internet Mapserver. More advanced users can customise the maps using the Advanced Map Viewer that can display a variety of data for different regions.

How is it organised?
The main components and organisation of the system is shown in figure 1. There are links to the home, projects, reports, maps, data and species pages from all pages (not shown).

Figure 1. System Map for Plantation Assessment Information System.

What does the system contain?
This section describes the main components of the system:

• home page
• project and outputs lists
• project and products information pages
• actual project outputs (reports, maps and metadata)
• other documentation (help, overview, glossary, acknowledgements)

In addition the system uses an Internet map Server to provide:

• a Simple Map Viewer; and
• an Advanced Map Viewer.

Home page
The home page provides a brief overview of the system and provides access to the system contents. It also provides links to other documentation, such as overview, acknowledgements, and a glossary.

Project and product lists
Project and product lists show all of the available information for completed projects and outputs. Project outputs (reports, maps, species and data) relate to a specific project in a region. The lists are organised by jurisdiction (eg national, state, other) and region.

• Regions - regions for which regional profiles, summaries of the existing and potential resource, industry and infrastructure, have been developed. [not completed]
• Projects - completed plantation assessment projects, for example Opportunities for Hardwood Sawlog plantations in South East Queensland.
• Reports - project reports, such as the Assessment Reports for Identification of Commercial Timber Plantation Opportunities in Comprehensive Regional Assessment (CRA) Regions of NSW (BRS, SFNSW & ABARE, 1999, 2000a, 2000b)
• Maps - maps showing assessment results, such as the area of land capable and suitable for growing Blue-gum plantations in Gippsland, Victoria.
• Species - species considered in the plantation assessment project, such as Radiata Pine (Pinus Radiata), an exotic softwood, or Blackbutt (Eucalyptus pilularis), a native hardwood.

Project and product Information
Project and product information pages provide a description of the project and products as well as links to actual products (reports, maps, and data descriptions), where these exist in a suitable format.

• Project Information - provides the project title, description and acknowledgements as well as lists the available reports, maps and species information. A location map for the region and links to view maps for the region are also provided.
• Report information - provides the report title, citations, publication date and abstract as well as a link to the report if it exists.
• Maps - provides a link to the actual map if it is available.

Products
Products include reports, maps and metadata where these are available. These are provided in a range of formats: word documents and pdf for reports; gif, jpeg and postscript for maps; and text and xml for metadata.

Other documentation
Other documentation is accessible from the home page. This includes:

• Overview - overview of the project for development of the Plantation Assessment Information System
• Glossary - an explanation of commonly used terms, such as plantation capability and suitability.
• Acknowledgements - a list of contributors and contact information.
• Help - this document.

How do I find things?
The top navigation bar (figure 2) is displayed beneath the title of the page. This has links to all of the main system components including the home, projects, reports, maps, species and data. The projects, reports, maps and data pages provide lists that can be used to find all of the available information. All of the reports, maps and species for a project are also listed on the project page. Links to the basic and Advanced Map viewer are provided from the project information pages. A complete description of all of these components is provided in the section ´What does it contain?´.

Figure 2. Upper Navigation links.

The lower navigation bar (figure 3) is displayed at the bottom of the page. This has links to an overview of the website, a list of contributors, a description of the limitations of the website and a glossary.

Figure 3. Lower Navigation links.

How do I use this?
Click here to view the help documentation for the atlas viewer.
Click here to view the help documentation for the GIS viewer.

This help can also be viewed by clicking on the Help hyperlink on the topmost toolbar when either viewer is being displayed.