Southern Grampians Plantain Suitability Model for Land Use Capability

A current suitability model for the commodity of Plantain in the Southern Grampians Shire Council area. It was modelled through the Land Use Capability project by Deakin University for the Southern Grampians Shire Council. The dataset is available in multiple formats including CSV and JSON, and was last updated on 2026-04-26.

Use Cases

• Assess land suitability for plantain cultivation based on modelled capability scores.
• Inform regional agricultural planning and policy based on the land use capability analysis.
• Integrate geospatial suitability layers into broader agricultural or environmental models.
• Validate or compare crop suitability models using the documented scientific methods.

Strengths

• Model is explicitly linked to a full scientific report detailing the methods.
• Data is provided in multiple interoperable formats, including CSV, JSON, and geospatial formats (WMS, WFS, SHP).
• Has a clear, permissive license (CC-BY-2.5) for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Geographic scope is limited to a single shire council area.

Provenance

Source

Southern Grampians Shire Council and Deakin University.

Collection Method

Modelled through the Land Use Capability project.

Time Range

Current (as of modelling date).

Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-26 16:58:28.221619; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Southern Grampians Shire Council, Australia.