Monthly Hillslope Bare Soil Erosion in New South Wales for 2001

2001 monthly bare soil erosion rates across hillslopes in New South Wales, Australia. The data is provided by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and is available in PDF and GEOTIFF formats. It measures erosion in tonnes per hectare per month.

Use Cases

• Model annual soil loss budgets based on monthly erosion rates.
• Analyze seasonal patterns of hillslope erosion based on monthly temporal resolution.
• Create geospatial visualizations of erosion risk across New South Wales based on the GEOTIFF raster data.
• Inform land management and conservation policy based on state-wide erosion estimates.

Strengths

• Data is provided by a state government environmental department.
• Covers a full calendar year (2001) with monthly temporal resolution.
• Available in a standard geospatial raster format (GEOTIFF).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified; the last update date is 2026-05-17.

Provenance

Source

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

Time Range

2001

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 21:16:19.653769.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia