ABARES
Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences
AWRIS
Australian Water Resources Information System
BA(s)
bioregional assessment(s)
BA framework
bioregional assessment framework
BA methodology
bioregional assessment methodology
CAPAD
Collaborative Australian Protected Area Database
COAG
Council of Australian Governments
CSG
coal seam gas
DEH
Department of Environment and Heritage
DEM
digital elevation model
EPBC Act
the Commonwealth's Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999
GDE
groundwater-dependent ecosystem
GPS
global positioning system
IBA
important bird area
IBRA
Interim Biogeographic Regionalisation for Australia
IESC
Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Large Coal Mining Development
IIESC
Interim Independent Expert Scientific Committee on Coal Seam Gas and Coal Mining
InSAR
Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar
ISO
International Organization for Standardization
LiDAR
Light Detection and Ranging
LTCC
Longwall Top Coal Caving
MNES
Matters of National Environmental Significance
NAF
National Aquifer Framework
NGIS
National Groundwater Information System
SEWPaC
Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
VAST dataset
Vegetation Assets, States and Transitions dataset for Australia
WHA
World Heritage Area
