Monthly Hillslope Bare Soil Erosion Rates Across New South Wales for 2026

2026 Monthly Hillslope Bare Soil Erosion provides individual monthly soil erosion rates measured in tonnes per hectare per month across New South Wales. The dataset was published by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and is available in PDF and GEOTIFF formats. It was last updated on May 23, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling annual soil loss budgets based on monthly erosion rates.
• Identifying erosion hotspots across New South Wales based on geospatial data.
• Assessing the impact of seasonal weather patterns on hillslope stability.
• Informing land management and conservation policy with spatially explicit erosion data.

Strengths

• Provides data at a monthly temporal resolution for the year 2026.
• Covers the entire state of New South Wales, offering broad spatial coverage.
• Published by a government environmental department, suggesting an authoritative source.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and total file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the data_gov_au platform and its collection methods.

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

2026

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-23 00:49:54.206276; freshness should be verified.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia