Soil Sensor Readings from Melbourne Parks for 2022

Historical data for calendar year 2022 from soil sensors in parks across the City of Melbourne. The dataset contains readings for salinity, temperature, and moisture, with units included. It is published by City of Melbourne Open Data under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Monitor soil moisture trends based on volumetric water content (%VWC) readings.
• Analyze soil temperature fluctuations over time based on degrees Celsius (ºC) readings.
• Assess soil salinity levels in urban parks based on microseimens per centimetre (µS/cm) readings.
• Correlate sensor readings with specific park locations by joining to the soil sensor locations dataset.

Strengths

• Covers a full calendar year (2022) of historical readings.
• Includes three distinct measurement types: salinity, temperature, and moisture.
• Published under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may contain gaps as sensors might not have reported readings for every hour.

Provenance

Source

City of Melbourne Open Data

Collection Method

Readings from soil sensors deployed in parks.

Time Range

2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-28 08:13:34.991095; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Parks within the City of Melbourne, Australia.