Monthly Hillslope Cover Erosion Rates for New South Wales in 2013

Individual monthly hillslope cover erosion rates, measured in tonnes per hectare per month, over New South Wales for the year 2013. The data is provided by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and is available in PDF and GEOTIFF formats.

Use Cases

• Modeling annual soil loss based on monthly erosion rates.
• Analyzing seasonal patterns of hillslope erosion.
• Creating geospatial visualizations of erosion risk for land management planning.
• Calibrating hydrological models with spatially distributed erosion data.

Strengths

• Data is provided for each month of 2013, allowing for temporal analysis.
• Covers the entire state of New South Wales, providing broad spatial coverage.
• Available in GEOTIFF format, suitable for direct use in GIS applications.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to data_gov_au.

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

2013

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 19:46:49.852872; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia