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NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
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A ranking of wind erosion risk for agricultural lands (2017)

This dataset is a ranking of estimated wind erosion risk for agricultural lands. Agricultural lands are defined here as those areas under cropping and grazing. The dataset was created in a multi-criteria analysis by combining (i) a modelled map of wind erosion severity for the period 2000 to 2010, (ii) an index map of the total soil nutrient loss, and (iii) maps of ‘room for improvement’ in ground cover management on agricultural lands within natural resource management (NRM) regions. It was developed to be used with a priority ranking for each NRM region to locate where in a NRM region the wind erosion investment area is and its priority.

Definition of classes 1. Low risk of wind erosion for agricultural land 2. Moderate risk of wind erosion for agricultural land 3. High risk of wind erosion for agricultural land

Detail on how the dataset was created is in Leys et al. (2017).

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Language English
Edition Version 5
Purpose Strategic Landscape Planning
Frequency of change Unknown
Keywords SOIL-Erosion
Field of Research (optional) Land Capability and Soil Degradation
Metadata Date 2017-11-28
Date of Asset Creation 2017-11-01
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Geospatial Topic Environment
NSW Place Name Australia
Extent

Dataset extent
Temporal Coverage From 2000-01-01 - 2010-12-31
Datum GDA94 Geographic (Lat\Long)
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