Monthly Hillslope Bare Soil Erosion Rates Across New South Wales for 2016

2016 monthly hillslope bare soil erosion rates measured in tonnes per hectare per month across New South Wales, Australia. The data is provided by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and is available in PDF and GEOTIFF formats. It was last updated in May 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling annual soil loss budgets based on monthly erosion rate data.
• Analyzing seasonal patterns of hillslope erosion across New South Wales.
• Informing land conservation and agricultural planning based on geospatial erosion risk.
• Calibrating remote sensing or hydrological models with ground-truthed erosion estimates.

Strengths

• Data has a specific temporal coverage for the year 2016.
• Spatial coverage is clearly defined as the state of New South Wales.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Freshness should be verified as the last update timestamp is in the future (2026).

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

2016

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 22:06:43.453504

Geography

New South Wales, Australia