Monthly Hillslope Cover Erosion Rates Across New South Wales for 2015

Individual monthly hillslope cover erosion rates, measured in tonnes per hectare per month, over New South Wales for the year 2015. The dataset is provided by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and was last updated on 2026-05-17. Data is available in PDF and GEOTIFF formats under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Modeling soil loss and sediment yield based on monthly erosion rates.
• Analyzing seasonal erosion patterns across New South Wales based on the 2015 time series.
• Validating hydrological or land-use models based on hillslope cover erosion data.
• Assessing land degradation risks for agricultural or conservation planning based on spatial erosion data.

Strengths

• Provides data for a full calendar year (2015), enabling seasonal analysis.
• Covers the entire state of New South Wales, offering broad spatial coverage.
• Available in a standard geospatial format (GEOTIFF) for GIS applications.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

2015

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 18:54:28.867924; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia