Annual Hillslope Cover Erosion Model for New South Wales from 2001

Modelled Annual Hillslope Cover Erosion data over New South Wales for years commencing 2001, provided by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. The data packages include mean annual erosion rates calculated in tonnes per hectare per year across a year range. The dataset was last updated on 2026-05-18.

Use Cases

• Modeling soil loss and sediment yield based on annual hillslope cover erosion rates.
• Assessing long-term land degradation trends based on time-series data from 2001 onward.
• Informing catchment management and conservation planning based on geospatial erosion estimates for New South Wales.

Strengths

• Data covers a long-term period commencing in 2001.
• Spatial coverage is explicitly for the state of New South Wales.
• Data is provided under a CC-BY-4.0 license for open use.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Primary file formats are PDF and ZIP, which may require specific tools for extraction and analysis.

Provenance

Source

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

Time Range

From 2001 onward

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-18 07:15:47.486069.

Geography

New South Wales, Australia