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Soil and Landscape Grid National Soil Attribute Maps - Rock outcrop occurrence (3" resolution) - Release 1

Created 25/06/2025

Updated 25/06/2025

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The map gives a modelled estimate (probability) of the spatial distribution of rock outcroppings across Australia. This product was produced in the development of the updated soil thickness map of Australia, details of which are published in Malone and Searle (2020; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114579). This product is the output from Model 1 of aforementioned paper and uses the Rock Properties database provided by Geoscience Australia which gives the locations of sampled rock outcrops across Australia (http://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/disciplines/geophysics/rock-properties). Filtering this dataset resulted in 14616 rock outcrop locations within areas where relief >300 m. A machine learning model was used to find relationships between observed data and associated environmental covariate data to inform the mapping of rock outcrop occurrence across Australia. Detailed information about the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia can be found at - SLGA Attribute Definition: Probability of rock outcrops; Units: 0-1; Period (temporal coverage; approximately): 1950-2021; Spatial resolution: 3 arc seconds (approx 90m); Total number of gridded maps for this attribute: 1; Number of pixels with coverage per layer: 2007M (49200 * 40800); Data license : Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY); Target data standard: GlobalSoilMap specifications; Format: Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF;

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Title Soil and Landscape Grid National Soil Attribute Maps - Rock outcrop occurrence (3" resolution) - Release 1
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e61ff4e1-a697-4296-a310-226f3d56305a
Contact Point
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network�s Data Discovery
brendan.malone@csiro.au
Reference Period 01/01/1950 - 01/01/2020
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
{
  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        111.8093,
        -44.4739
      ],
      [
        154.7123,
        -44.4739
      ],
      [
        154.7123,
        -10.3456667
      ],
      [
        111.8093,
        -10.3456667
      ],
      [
        111.8093,
        -44.4739
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
Data Portal Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network

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This dataset was originally found on Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network "Soil and Landscape Grid National Soil Attribute Maps - Rock outcrop occurrence (3" resolution) - Release 1". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/soil-and-landscape-grid-national-soil-attribute-maps-rock-outcrop-occurrence-3-resolution-relea