Provides a numeric rating in each raster cell of the potential for sheet or rill erosion in the event that vegetation or other ground cover has been removed. The assessment is based on mapping of slope and spatial predictions of inherent soil erodibility characteristics. Also available for download: Soil Water Erosion Potential (based on Soil Landscape Map Units of Southern South Australia) and Soil Erosion Max Potential - Wind or Water.

Wind Erosion risk mapping derived from land quality attribution associated with soil-landscape mapping at the subsystem/phase level. See Resource Management Technical Report 298, Section 2.22, Department of Agriculture, 2005.

Water erosion potential, based on Soil Landscape Map Units of Southern South Australia, describes the susceptibility of land to sheet or rill erosion due to overland flow of water. Mapping shows the dominant water erosion potential class, while detailed proportion data are supplied for calculating respective areas of each water erosion potential class (spatial data statistics). Also available for download: Soil Water Erosion Potential (SA).

Land use potential for Irrigated Perennial Ryegrass: based on soil and landscape attributes only. The relative potential to sustain particular crops is predicted from expert assessment of plant requirements and available soil and land attribute mapping. No account has been taken of water quality or availability, climatic factors or existing land use. This spatial dataset is part of a series depicting the potential of land for a range of agricultural uses.

Land use potential for Tar Bush (Eremophila glabra): based on soil and landscape attributes only. The relative potential to sustain particular crops is predicted from expert assessment of plant requirements and available soil and land attribute mapping. No account has been taken of water quality or availability, climatic factors or existing land use. This spatial dataset is part of a series depicting the potential of land for a range of agricultural uses.

Site drainage potential is a land quality which may impact upon rural-residential development and related land uses and is based on analysis and interpretation of the best available soil-landscape mapping dataset (DPIRD-027). See DAFWA Resource Management Technical Report 298 for a description of the qualities assessed and the methodology involved.

This dataset is a ranking of estimated wind erosion risk for agricultural lands. Agricultural lands are defined here as those areas under cropping and grazing. The dataset was created in a multi-criteria analysis by combining (i) a modelled map of wind erosion severity for the period 2000 to 2010, (ii) an index map of the total soil nutrient loss, and (iii) maps of ‘room for improvement’ in ground cover management on agricultural lands within natural resource management (NRM) regions. It was developed to be used with a priority ranking for each NRM region to locate where in a NRM region the wind erosion investment area is and its priority. Definition of classes Low risk of wind erosion for agricultural land Moderate risk of wind erosion for agricultural land High risk of wind erosion for agricultural land Detail on how the dataset was created is in Leys et al. (2017).NOTE: Dataset and Leys et al. (2017) publication are available on request to geospatial@dcceew.gov.au

The raster data represent the amount of wet nitrate deposition in kilograms per hectare from 2014 to 2016. Summary data in this indicator were provided by EPA’s Office of Atmospheric Programs. Wet deposition data are from the National Atmospheric Deposition Program/National Trends Network (NADP, 2018) (http://nadp.slh.wisc.edu/). This indicator aggregates data across 3-year periods to avoid influences from short-term fluctuations in meteorological conditions, and wet deposition data were interpolated among monitoring stations to generate the map shown.