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Soil Sensor Readings - Historical data (2022)

Created 10/01/2026

Updated 10/01/2026

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This dataset contains historical readings for soil sensors within parks across the City of Melbourne, for calendar year 2022 (current year data data is here). The sensors take a variety of readings such as salinity, temperature and moisture. The units and readings are included within the data. This dataset can be joined to the soil sensor locations dataset using the site id column. This dataset contains a large number of records, to download only a particular sensor's readings see our attached guide on how to filter data.

📎 Note: An attachment ZIP file is available for download that contains the complete historical data for 2022.

Different readings taken (based on unit column):- %VWC: Volumetric water content is a numerical measure of soil moisture. It is simply the ratio of water volume to soil volume.- ºC: Temperature in degrees celsius.- µS/cm: Salinity is the measure of the concentration of dissolved (soluble) salts in water from all sources. (microseimens per centimetre)Note this dataset may not contain a reading for every sensor for every hour as the sensor devices might not have a reading for each value. There may be situations where no readings are reported for all sensors or only some readings are reported at a particular site.

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Title Soil Sensor Readings - Historical data (2022)
Language EN
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/8c90f488-70b0-41d9-9f2d-1bbde86e706a
Remote Last Updated 22/08/2022
Contact Point
City of Melbourne Open Data
opendata@melbourne.vic.gov.au
Reference Period 22/08/2022
Geospatial Coverage Melbourne
Data Portal Melbourne Data

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Melbourne Data "Soil Sensor Readings - Historical data (2022)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://data.melbourne.vic.gov.au/explore/dataset/soil-sensor-readings-historical-data-2022/