Monthly Hillslope Cover Erosion Rates Across New South Wales for 2018

New South Wales is covered by monthly hillslope cover erosion data for 2018, measured in tonnes per hectare per month. The dataset was published by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. It is available in PDF and GEOTIFF formats.

Use Cases

• Model annual soil erosion risk based on monthly erosion rates.
• Analyze seasonal patterns of hillslope erosion based on monthly temporal resolution.
• Create visualizations of soil loss distribution across New South Wales based on geospatial data.
• Correlate erosion rates with land cover or climate events based on the monthly time series.

Strengths

• Data covers the entire state of New South Wales.
• Provides monthly temporal resolution for the year 2018.
• Available in GEOTIFF format for direct geospatial analysis.

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.

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

2018

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-17 17:36:05.020541; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia