Land use potential models
The department's Soil and Land Program has developed a range of land use potential models (links to maps below), which have been funded on a project-by-project basis. All models and their outputs (maps) are considered preliminary as they are yet to be extensively ground-truthed.
Field Crops: | Annual Horticultural Crops: | Perennial Horticultural Crops: |
Pastures - Irrigated Systems: | Pastures - Dryland Systems: | Alternative Crops, Fodder species and Native Plants: |
Non-standard soil and land attributes and other models
The soil and land attribute datasets have previously been used to support a range of projects to inform management, policy decisions, land use or infrastructure development. These have been designed to meet individual customer needs, such as:
- identifying high-value primary production areas and arable land
- suitability for farm dams
- risk of soil structure decline due to irrigation
- potential soil biological activity levels
- corrosion potential to infrastructure
- assessing risk to infrastructure due to soil reactivity potential (shrink-swell characteristics).
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