Monthly Hillslope Cover Erosion Rates for New South Wales in 2017

Individual monthly hillslope cover erosion rates, measured in tonnes per hectare per month, are provided for the state of New South Wales for the year 2017. The dataset is published by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water under a CC-BY-4.0 license. It was last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Modeling annual soil loss based on monthly erosion rates.
• Analyzing seasonal erosion patterns across New South Wales.
• Validating hydrological or land cover models using geospatial erosion data.
• Assessing land degradation and informing conservation planning.

Strengths

• Data covers a full calendar year (2017) for temporal analysis.
• Geospatial data is provided in GEOTIFF format for GIS applications.
• Published by a government environmental department, suggesting an official source.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are 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

2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 08:12:53.502663; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia