Monthly Hillslope Cover Erosion Rates for New South Wales in 2009

2009 Monthly Hillslope Cover Erosion provides monthly soil erosion rates in tonnes per hectare per month across New South Wales for the year 2009. The dataset was published by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Data is available in PDF and GEOTIFF formats under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Model soil erosion risk based on monthly hillslope cover data.
• Analyze seasonal erosion patterns across New South Wales.
• Integrate erosion rates with land use or climate datasets.
• Validate erosion models using spatially distributed monthly measurements.
• Assess environmental policy impacts on soil conservation.

Strengths

• Data is geospatial, likely enabling spatial analysis.
• Provides monthly temporal resolution for the year 2009.
• Published by a state government environmental department.
• Available under an open CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

2009

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 02:00:44.209926; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales