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Estimated Inherent Soil Fertility of NSW

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 map unit (see Table 1).

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Language English
Purpose This map communicates the estimated inherent soil fertility of dominant soil types in NSW. It is one of the primary datasets used to create the regional Biophysical Strategic Agricultural Land (BSAL) maps under the NSW Government's Strategic Regional Land Use Policy.
Frequency of change Unknown
Keywords SOIL
Metadata Date 2013-02-05
Date of Asset Creation 2013-02-05
Date of Asset Revision 2013-10-24
Date of Asset Publication 2013-02-05
Date of Next Update 2013-11-15
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Equivalent Scale 250000
Geospatial Topic
  • Farming
  • Environment
Extent

Dataset extent
Temporal Coverage From 2009-09-06 - 2013-05-02
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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Attribution Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) asserts the right to be attributed as author of the original material in the following manner: "© State Government of NSW and Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH) 2013"