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Title

Soil and land constraint assessment maps: Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment

Abstract

This dataset contains maps and data on soil and land constraints that may impact on a range of land uses throughout the Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment. It reveals the physical capability of the land for different land uses, together with a broad indication of potential economic costs associated with overcoming the constraints. It should assist in many planning and natural resource management processes throughout the catchment. Land uses dealt with include: development – standard residential, medium density, high density and rural residential agriculture – cropping and grazing wastewater disposal – surface irrigation, trench absorption and pump-out methods. Background information and methodology is provided in the accompanying Technical Report DECCW (2010) Soil and land constraint assessment for urban and regional planning.

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Data Quality Statement

Name: Data Quality Statement

Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

Description:

Data quality statement for Soil and land constraint assessment maps: Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment

Function: download

GIS maps: soil and land constraint assessment

Name: GIS maps: soil and land constraint assessment

Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

Description:

GIS constraint maps of 9 land uses and management processes over Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment (25 m raster)

Function: download

PDF maps: soil and land constraint assessment

Name: PDF maps: soil and land constraint assessment

Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

Description:

PDF copies of the maps for 9 land uses and management processes over the catchment

Function: download

Technical Report: DECCW (2010), Soil and land constraint assessment for urban and regional planning

Name: Technical Report: DECCW (2010), Soil and land constraint assessment for urban and regional planning

Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

Description:

Technical report describing the background, methodology, use and interpretation of the constraint assessment process

Function: download

Notes on map interpretation and other related publications

Name: Notes on map interpretation and other related publications

Protocol: WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download

Description:

(i) interpretation notes; (ii) Australian Planner journal paper (2011); (iii) conference paper for domestic wastewater disposal

Function: download

Unique resource identifier

Code

d9a95086-870e-41a1-8f29-a42f4ddd57e2

Presentation form

Map digital

Edition

1

Dataset language

English

Metadata standard

Name

ISO 19115

Edition

2016

Dataset URI

https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/d9a95086-870e-41a1-8f29-a42f4ddd57e2

Purpose

Assist Local Councils and regional planning bodies in urban and regional planning in Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment, including western Sydney

Status

Completed

Spatial representation type

grid

Spatial reference system

Code identifying the spatial reference system

4283

Spatial resolution

25 m

Classification of spatial data and services

Field Value

Topic category

Keywords

Field Value

Keyword set

keyword value

SOIL

LAND

LAND-Use

HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT-Planning

Originating controlled vocabulary

Title

ANZLIC Search Words

Reference date

2008-05-16

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

149.41

East bounding longitude

151.4778

North bounding latitude

-35.1645

South bounding latitude

-32.6974

NSW Place Name

Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment

Vertical extent information

Minimum value

-100

Maximum value

2228

Coordinate reference system

Authority code

urn:ogc:def:cs:EPSG::

Code identifying the coordinate reference system

5711

Temporal extent

Begin position

2000-01-01

End position

N/A

Dataset reference date

Resource maintenance

Maintenance and update frequency

Not planned

Contact info

Contact position

Data Broker

Organisation name

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

Telephone number

131555

Email address

data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au

Web address

https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/dcceew

Responsible party role

pointOfContact

Quality and validity

Field Value

Lineage

Concepts and methodology of the product are presented in DECCW (2010) and Gray et al (2011). The product builds on the soil landscape data contained in Soil and Land Resources of the Hawkesbury Nepean Catchment (DECCW 2009). This contains descriptions of all soil-landscape units in the Catchment, including details on their qualities and constraints, derived from mapping programs predominantly carried out at 1:25 000 scale but published at 1:100 000 scale.
Spatial modelling of the soil-landscape units down to facet level was achieved using GIS techniques with a 25 m digital elevation model (DEM) as described in Yang et al (2008). Erosion hazard mapping using methodology described in Yang et al. (2006) was also applied.

References Department of Environment and Climate Change, 2009, Soil and Land Resources of the Hawkesbury-Nepean Catchment interactive DVD, Department of Environment and Climate Change NSW, Sydney. https://datasets.seed.nsw.gov.au/dataset/soil-and-land-resources-of-the-hawkesbury-nepean-catchment2bef0 DECCW 2010. Constraint Assessment for Urban and Regional Planning, DECCW Technical Report, prepared by JM Gray, GA Chapman, X Yang, M Young, NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water, Sydney. Gray JM, Chapman GA, Yang X, Young M, 2011. Constraint Assessment for Urban and Regional Planning, Australian Planner, 48:1, 12-23 Yang, X, Chapman, GA, Gray, JM. and Young, MA (2007). Delineating soil-landscape facets from digital elevation models using compound topographic index and terrain analysis. Australian Journal of Soil Research, 45(8):569–576. Yang, X, Chapman, G and Heemstra, S 2006, Estimating soil erosion hazard for NSW coastal catchments using RUSLE in a GIS environment, in 10th Annual SIA Conference on Urban Stormwater Management, Parramatta, 27–30 June 2006

Constraints related to access and use

Field Value

Limitations on public access

Data Quality

Field Value

Scope

dataset

DQ Topological Consistency

Effective date

2011-06-01

Explanation

The polygons of the original soil landscape products had been checked with GIS methods

DQ Absolute External Positional Accuracy

Effective date

2011-06-01

Explanation

Observations and soil profiles used for original soil mapping were located using handheld GPS (accurate to 50m) or using 1:25,000 topographic maps. Soil boundaries on this 1:100,000 scale map is generally accurate to within 100m on the ground but variations will occur especially where soil boundaries are gradual. Extensive field checking of soil landscape boundaries had been undertaken prior to finalising the original mapping.

DQ Non Quantitative Attribute Correctness

Effective date

2011-06-01

Explanation

The land and soil constraints in the original soil-landscape map products were predominately assessed using field observations, remote sensing interpretation (satellite, radiometric and aerial photos) and laboratory analysis of dominant soil materials. Further checking of representative facet boundaries and final constraint results was undertaken prior to finalisation of the product

Responsible organisations

Field Value

Responsible party

Contact position

Data Broker

Organisation name

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

Telephone number

131555

Email address

data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au

Web address

https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/dcceew

Responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Field Value

Metadata point of contact

Contact position

Data Broker

Organisation name

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

Telephone number

131555

Email address

data.broker@environment.nsw.gov.au

Web address

https://www.nsw.gov.au/departments-and-agencies/dcceew

Responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2024-02-26T13:55:25.444160

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