Estimated Inherent Soil Fertility of NSW

NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water

This map provides an estimation of the inherent fertility of soils in NSW. It uses the best available soils and natural resource mapping developed for the Land and Soil Capability (LSC) dataset.

The mapping describes soil fertility in NSW according to a five class system outlined below:

  • Low (1)
  • Moderately low (2)
  • Moderate (3)
  • Moderately high (4)
  • High (5)

It was derived from a lookup table system linking a fertility class to a particular soil type (Great Soil Group), which was then attributed for each soil map unit (see Table 1 in data package).

Online Maps: This dataset can be viewed using eSPADE (NSW’s soil spatial viewer), which contains a suite of soil and landscape information including soil profile data. Many of these datasets have hot-linked soil reports. An alternative viewer is the SEED Map; an ideal way to see what other natural resources datasets (e.g. vegetation) are available for this map area.

Reference: Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, 2021, Estimated Inherent Soil Fertility of NSW, Version 4.5, NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, Parramatta.

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Title Estimated Inherent Soil Fertility of NSW
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Licence cc-by
Data Status
Update Frequency asNeeded
Landing Page https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/071729c0-a9d1-4320-a584-896d49894f20
Date Published 2018-09-05
Date Updated 2024-02-26
Contact Point
Temporal Coverage 2009-09-06 - 2013-05-02
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[153.66, -37.507], [153.66, -27.998], [141.001, -27.998], [141.001, -37.507], [153.66, -37.507]]]}
Jurisdiction
Data Portal Data.NSW
Publisher/Agency NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water