Murray-Darling Basin Water Market Catchment Dataset (ABARES)
ABARES dataset detailing water availability, market outcomes, irrigation activity (area sown and water use by crop), climatic conditions, and commodity prices for 25 catchments in the Murray-Darling Basin.
agriculture.gov.au
At a glance
- Region
- Australia (Oceania)
- Coverage
- Regional
- Access
- Free
- Category
- Government
- Last updated
- 2025
What's inside
- Irrigation water use
- Water market
- Crop area
- Allocations
What you can do with it
Typical work that data of this type supports.
- 01
Irrigation scheduling
Decide when and how much to irrigate.
Because it has: Irrigation water use
- 02
Water accounting
Track how much water crops actually consume across a command area.
- 03
Design flows
Estimate 1-in-50 and 1-in-100 year floods for bridges, culverts and spillways.
Where AI adds value
Ideas for machine learning and AI agents built on this kind of data.
- 01
Field-scale ET
Estimate crop water use per field by combining satellite and weather with ML.
- 02
Demand forecasts
Predict irrigation demand weeks ahead for canal and pump planning.
- 03
Flow forecasting
Train LSTM-style models on past records to forecast river levels and flow days ahead.
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