Soil Sand Percentage Maps for Victoria at 90-Meter Resolution

Soil Grids of Victorian - Soil Sand % is a set of digital soil maps providing mean, 5th, and 95th percentile prediction values for soil sand percentage across Victoria. The Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action produced these raster grids at a 90-meter resolution for six standard depths up to 200 cm, following GlobalSoilMap specifications. The data was last updated on 2026-04-27.

Use Cases

• Modeling agricultural yield potential based on soil sand content and depth profiles.
• Informing land use policy and planning based on regional soil property trends.
• Supporting ecosystem and hydrological modeling based on spatially interpolated soil attributes.
• Assessing soil resource management strategies across Victoria based on prediction maps and confidence intervals.

Strengths

• Provides prediction values and confidence intervals (5th and 95th percentile) for each location.
• Covers six standard depth intervals from 0-5 cm down to 100-200 cm.
• Has a consistent 90-meter grid resolution across the entire state of Victoria.
• Follows the standardized specifications set by the GlobalSoilMap project.

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 for some analytical tasks.

Provenance

Source

Department of Energy, Environment and Climate Action

Collection Method

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

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-27 20:35:25.698124; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Victoria, Australia