A national map of protected cropping systems

The ‘National Mapping of Protected Cropping Systems’ project delivered the first national baseline map of all commercial protected cropping systems (PCS) in Australia, published as the ‘Australian Protected Cropping Map Dashboard’ (Figure 1). The map developed with the Future Food Systems CRC, Protected Cropping Australia Ltd and NSW Local Land Services identifies 13,932 ha of protected cropping systems – including 4,473 ha of greenhouses (glasshouses, polyhouses and polytunnels) and 9,459 ha of nets (shadehouses and permanent nets). As well as intuitively presenting the spatial extent (location, area and type) of all PCS (over 2000 m2), the metrics for total area of production by structure type is be summarised by state / territory and local government areas (LGA).