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The Landsat Woody Vegetation Extent -Queensland 2014 provides an estimate of the extent of woody vegetation across the state. An annual woody spectral index image is created from 1988 to 2014 using multiple regression trained from field data collected mostly over the period 1996-1999. Characteristics of the time series of these images are used in a tree based classification to produce a prediction of woody/non-woody vegetation. The product was generated from WRS-2 path/row scenes obtained from the United States Geological Survey (USGS).While some land cover change may be detected in the woody extent dataset, this product is not designed to generate clearing or regrowth layers, and should not be used to assess clearing or be compared with previous years for change monitoring. The Statewide Landcover and Trees Study (SLATS) produces accurate woody vegetation clearing layers for this purpose.