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Title |
Soil and Land Resources of the Merriwa Plateau |
Abstract |
This digital soil landscape product contains natural resource mapping for the Merriwa. The Merriwa Plateau is located in the upper Hunter catchment including hills of the Southern Liverpool Ranges; grading to gently sloped plateau around Merriwa. The project was funded by the National Partnership Agreement to provide improved soil and landscape information for this highly productive agricultural area. It has enabled more accurate and better quality Land and Soil Capability and Soil Fertility information to be available for future updates of Biophysical Strategic Agricultural Land (BSAL) mapping under the NSW Strategic Regional Land Use Policy (SRLUP). This resource information will also assist other decision making, planning and environmental modelling throughout the catchment. Forty soil landscape map units have been described for the Merriwa Plateau. Each unit is an inventory of soil and landscape information with relatively uniform land management requirements, allowing major soil and landscape qualities and constraints to be identified. Soils are described using the Australian Soil Classification and the Great Soil Groups systems. Related Datasets: The dataset area is also covered by the mapping of the Soil landscape 1:100 000 and 1:250 000 mapping series for the mapsheets of Dubbo, Singleton, Murrurundi and Blackville. Part of this area is also covered by the mapping of Hydrogeological landscapes of NSW. Online Maps: This and related datasets 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: Office of Environment and Heritage, 2014, Soil and Land Resources of the Merriwa Plateau, NSW Office of Environment and Heritage, Sydney. |
Resource locator |
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Data quality statement |
Name: Data quality statement Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Description: DQS - Soil and Land Resources of the Merriwa Plateau Function: download |
Show on eSPADE Web Map |
Name: Show on eSPADE Web Map Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Description: View dataset on eSPADE spatial viewer. Function: download |
Soil and land resource data package |
Name: Soil and land resource data package Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Description: Download data package: shapefile and PDF reports Function: download |
Soil map information |
Name: Soil map information Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Description: Web page about soil maps in NSW. Function: download |
Land and soil information |
Name: Land and soil information Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download Description: Web page about land and soil information in NSW. Function: download |
Unique resource identifier |
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Code |
1575c709-f05d-4039-bc86-87db14708af6 |
Presentation form |
mapDigital |
Edition |
1.0 (v160929) |
Dataset language |
eng |
Metadata standard |
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Name |
ANZLIC Metadata Profile: An Australian/New Zealand Profile of AS/NZS ISO 19115:2005, Geographic information - Metadata |
Version |
1.1 |
Dataset URI |
https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/1575c709-f05d-4039-bc86-87db14708af6 |
Purpose |
This dataset was funded by National Partnership Agreement to collect improved soil and land information to upgrade Land and Soil Capability and Soil Fertility mapping for use in the SRLUP. It was then published in April 2015. |
Status |
completed |
Spatial representation |
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Type |
vector |
Spatial reference system |
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Authority code |
GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long) |
Code identifying the spatial reference system |
4283 |
Equivalent scale |
1:None |
Field | Value |
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Topic category |
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Field | Value |
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Keyword set |
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keyword value |
SOIL SOIL-Erosion LAND-Topography LAND-Cover HAZARDS-Flood HAZARDS-Landslip LAND-Use VEGETATION |
Originating controlled vocabulary |
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Title |
ANZLIC Search Words |
Reference date |
2008-05-16 |
Geographic location |
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West bounding longitude |
149.584351 |
East bounding longitude |
150.899963 |
North bounding latitude |
-32.178449 |
South bounding latitude |
-31.665585 |
NSW Place Name |
Merriwa Plateau |
Vertical extent information |
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Minimum value |
-100 |
Maximum value |
2228 |
Coordinate reference system |
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Authority code |
urn:ogc:def:cs:EPSG:: |
Code identifying the coordinate reference system |
5711 |
Temporal extent |
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Begin position |
2013-01-06 |
End position |
N/A |
Dataset reference date |
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Date type |
publication |
Effective date |
2015-04-30 |
Resource maintenance |
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Maintenance and update frequency |
None |
Contact info | |
Organisation name |
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water |
Full postal address |
NSW Australia data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au |
Telephone number |
131555 |
Email address |
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Responsible party role |
pointOfContact |
Field | Value |
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Lineage |
The mapping was upgraded to Soil and Land Resource 1:100,000 scale standard by the NSW Government using:
Traditional soil survey methods and standards were used to produce this soil map product. Information from previous soil and geology surveys were used. Linework was captured by digitizing on screen at approximately 1:10,000 using ArcGIS. Provisional soil landscapes were established on the dominant geomorphic processes responsible for the formation of the landscape and on the geological parent material. The boundaries of these soil landscapes were mapped using the interpretation of ADS40 photographs, SPOT satellite imagery, DEM and radiometric imagery. Fieldwork was conducted assessing a suite of soil and landscape properties. Dominant sub landscapes classes, their soil types were identified and soil landscape hazards assessed. Over 150 additional detailed soil profiles and observations were collected across the project area to fill knowledge and data gaps. A small subset of samples were also collected for laboratory analysis to support the survey. |
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Limitations on public access |
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Field | Value |
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Scope |
dataset |
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Responsible party |
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Contact position |
Data Broker |
Organisation name |
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water |
Full postal address |
NSW Australia data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au |
Telephone number |
131555 |
Email address |
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Web address |
https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/dcceew |
Responsible party role |
pointOfContact |
Field | Value |
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Metadata point of contact |
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Contact position |
Data Broker |
Organisation name |
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water |
Full postal address |
NSW Australia data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au |
Telephone number |
131555 |
Email address |
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Responsible party role |
distributor |
Metadata date |
2016-04-10 |
Metadata language |
eng |