Eastern NSW Forest Soil Condition Maps with Baseline and Trend Data

Soil condition maps for New South Wales Regional Forest Agreement regions assess baselines and trends for soil health and stability. Datasets include empirical maps for topsoil pH, carbon, and stability, digital soil maps at 100m resolution, and a data cube of soil organic carbon from 1990 to 2020. The data was generated by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery and published via the NSW Spatial Collaboration Portal.

Use Cases

• Establishing soil health baselines based on empirical maps of topsoil pH, carbon, and aggregate stability.
• Modeling the impact of disturbances like forest harvesting or bush fire using digital soil maps showing trends of change.
• Analyzing long-term trends in soil organic carbon concentrations using the 30-year data cube time series.

Strengths

• Empirical soil maps consist of 2,162 spatial units, each using the most representative soil profile from the SALIS database.
• Digital soil maps provide raster data at 100-meter resolution for key indicators like bulk density and hillslope erosion.
• Data cube maps offer a 30-year time series of soil organic carbon from January 1990 to December 2020.

Limitations

• Empirical maps reflect values at the time of sampling and do not account for temporal changes.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Maps generated using representative soil profiles from the Soil and Land Information System (SALIS), with a 2008 woody vegetation baseline. Digital soil maps and data cube products used machine learning and geospatial modeling.

Time Range

Baseline circa 2008; soil organic carbon time series from January 1990 to December 2020.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-13 13:06:51.264504; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Regional Forest Agreement regions of eastern New South Wales, Australia.