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Estimated Inherent Soil Fertility of NSW

Created 24/06/2025

Updated 12/11/2025

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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 soil map unit (see Table 1 in data package). Online Maps: This dataset 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: Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, 2021, Estimated Inherent Soil Fertility of NSW, Version 4.5, NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment, Parramatta.

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Title Estimated Inherent Soil Fertility of NSW
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/071729c0-a9d1-4320-a584-896d49894f20
Remote Last Updated 23/10/2025
Contact Point
NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water
?datansw@customerservice.nsw.gov.au
Reference Period 06/09/2009 - 02/05/2013
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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  "coordinates": [
    [
      [
        153.66,
        -37.507
      ],
      [
        153.66,
        -27.998
      ],
      [
        141.001,
        -27.998
      ],
      [
        141.001,
        -37.507
      ],
      [
        153.66,
        -37.507
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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Data Source

This dataset was originally found on DataNSW "Estimated Inherent Soil Fertility of NSW". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.nsw.gov.au/data/dataset/nsw-estimated-inherent-soil-fertility-of-nswd793e