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Soil drainage DSM data of the Fitzroy catchment WA, Darwin catchments and Mitchell catchment Qld generated by the Northern Australia Water Resource Assessment

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Title Soil drainage DSM data of the Fitzroy catchment WA, Darwin catchments and Mitchell catchment Qld generated by the Northern Australia Water Resource Assessment
 
Creator Mark Thomas
 
Subject Agricultural Spatial Analysis and Modelling
 
Description Soil drainage is one of 18 attributes of soils chosen to underpin the land suitability assessment of the Northern Australia Water Resource Assessment (NAWRA) through the digital soil mapping process (DSM). Soil drainage describes local soil wetness conditions (rate of water movement from the site soil profile). This soil drainage raster data represents a modelled dataset of profile drainage as described by the National Committee on Soil and Terrain 2009 (NCST) and is derived from field measured site data and environmental covariates. Data values are: 1 Very poorly drained, 2 Poorly drained, 3 Imperfectly drained, 4 Moderately well drained, 5 Well drained, 6 Rapidly drained. Soil drainage is a parameter used in land suitability assessments of soil wetness in combination with soil permeability indicating site and soil conditions that result in poor soil aeration for plant growth eg excess water on the soil surface or in the soil profile caused from inadequate site drainage reduces crop growth and quality and restricts machinery use. This raster data provides improved soil information used to identify opportunities and promote detailed investigation for a range of sustainable regional development options and was created within the ‘Land Suitability’ activity of the CSIRO NAWRA. A companion dataset and statistics reflecting reliability of this data are also provided and can be found described in the lineage section of this metadata record. Processing information is supplied in ranger R scripts and attributes were modelled using a Random Forest approach.
The DSM process is described in the CSIRO NAWRA published report ‘Digital soil mapping of the Fitzroy, Darwin and Mitchell catchments. A technical report from the CSIRO Northern Australia Water Resource Assessment to the Government of Australia'. The land suitability assessment this dataset underpins is described in the CSIRO NAWRA published report ‘Land suitability of the Fitzroy, Darwin and Mitchell catchments. A technical report from the CSIRO Northern Australia Water Resource Assessment to the Government of Australia'.
 
Publisher CSIRO
 
Contributor Dan Brough
Elisabeth Bui
Ben Harms
Jason Hill
Karen Holmes
David Morrison
Seonaid Philip
Ross Searle
Henry Smolinski
Seija Tuomi
Dennis van Gool
Ian Watson
Peter Wilson
Peter Wilson
 
Date 2018-09-05
 
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Identifier csiro:34741
 
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