A 2016-2017 project exploring options to reduce nitrogen losses from marginal sugarcane land in priority wet tropics catchments. The project, associated with the Wet Tropics Water Quality Improvement Plan, involved mapping land, identifying alternative uses, and quantifying economic costs and benefits. It was contributed by the Australian Ocean Data Network and last updated on 2026-07-14.
Use Cases
- Mapping low-lying marginal agricultural land based on the project's scoping focus.
- Modeling economic costs and benefits of land transition based on the described quantification of alternate income streams.
- Identifying constraints and opportunities for alternative land uses to reduce nitrogen based on the project's stated objectives.
Strengths
- Project has a defined temporal scope of 2016-2017.
- Focuses on a specific environmental challenge for the Great Barrier Reef catchment.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Data may reflect geographic/temporal bias inherent to data_gov_au.
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Project involved mapping with community and industry partners, though specific data collection methods are not detailed.
- Time Range
- 2016-2017
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-14 06:42:18.400297; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Priority wet tropics catchments affecting the Great Barrier Reef, Australia