Monthly Hillslope Bare Soil Erosion in New South Wales, 2011-2020

Monthly bare soil erosion rates measured in tonnes per hectare per month across New South Wales. The data covers a ten-year period from 2011 to 2020 and was published by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. It provides a time-series view of hillslope erosion dynamics.

Use Cases

• Modeling long-term soil degradation trends based on monthly erosion rates.
• Assessing the impact of land management policies on hillslope stability.
• Correlating erosion events with seasonal climate patterns over a ten-year period.
• Creating risk maps for soil conservation planning in New South Wales.

Strengths

• Data covers a ten-year time range (2011-2020), providing a longitudinal view.
• Spatial coverage is explicitly defined as New South Wales, Australia.
• Erosion is measured in a standardized unit (tonnes per hectare per month).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is provided in PDF format, which is not ideal for direct computational analysis.

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

2011-2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 16:41:33.800361; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia