Monthly Cover and Management Factor for New South Wales, 2011-2020

2011 to 2020 monthly data on Cover and Management (C-factor) over New South Wales. The dataset is provided by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and is available in PDF format under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Model soil erosion risk based on monthly cover and management factors.
• Analyze seasonal and interannual trends in land management practices.
• Assess the impact of agricultural or conservation policies on land cover over time.
• Calibrate remote sensing models for land cover classification using ground-truth-adjacent data.

Strengths

• Covers a 10-year period (2011-2020), providing a substantial longitudinal view.
• Spatially focused on the state of New South Wales, offering regional specificity.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for broad reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data is provided in PDF format, which may complicate automated extraction and analysis.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML tasks.

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

2011-2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 00:04:58.886925; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia