Soil Clay Percentage Maps for Victoria at 90m Resolution

Victoria's soil clay percentage maps provide prediction and confidence interval values at a 90-meter grid resolution for six depth intervals up to 200 cm. The Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action produced these digital soil maps using spatial interpolation, following GlobalSoilMap specifications. The data was last updated on April 27, 2026.

Use Cases

• Modeling soil-water dynamics based on clay content predictions across six depth layers.
• Assessing regional soil trends for agricultural production planning based on the 90m resolution grids.
• Informing land use policy and planning based on spatially interpolated soil property maps.
• Supporting ecosystem modelling research based on the provided confidence intervals for soil attributes.

Strengths

• Provides data for six specific depth intervals: 0-5 cm, 5-15 cm, 15-30 cm, 30-60 cm, 60-100 cm, and 100-200 cm.
• Includes prediction values and confidence intervals (5th and 95th percentile) for each grid cell.
• Follows the consistent methodological specifications of the GlobalSoilMap project.
• Covers the entire state of Victoria with a fine-scale 90-meter grid resolution.

Limitations

• The description advises caution for local-scale assessments, recommending use for regional to state-wide trends.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action

Collection Method

Spatial interpolation based on existing soil profile and land mapping collections, using methodology refined by the Australian Soil and Landscape Grid.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-27 20:32:39.289301; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Victoria, Australia