Land Capability
Title: Land Capability Western Australia
Custodian: Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia
Jurisdiction: Western Australia
Description
Abstract:Land capability for a variety of agricultural land uses (annual horticulture, dryland cropping minimum tillage, grazing, perennial horticulture) as attributed to the best available soil-landscape mapping. See DAFWA Resource Management Technical Report 298 for a description of the methodology involved.
Search Words: SOIL, SOIL Mapping, GEOSCIENCES Geomorphology, LAND Capability
Geographic Extent: Western Australia
Data Currency
Beginning Date: 01-10-2001
Ending Date: Current
Dataset Status
Progress: In Progress
Maintenance & Update Frequency: Biannually
Access
Stored Data Format: DIGITAL Oracle Spatial
Available Format Types: DIGITAL Geomedia warehouse, DIGITAL ESRI shapefile,
Access Constraints: Subject to data licensing agreement
Data Quality
Lineage: Data compiled from attribution associated with the best available soil-landscape mapping for Western Australia (version 5.01) using the following attributes.
Annual HorticultureLC_ANN_HORT
Dryland CroppingLC_DRY_CROP
GrazingLC_GRAZ
Perennial HorticultureLC_PER_HORT
Positional Accuracy: Variable depending upon scale of survey + or – 25 to 500 m.
Attribute Accuracy: Accuracy of attribution is variable depending upon scale of survey and the hierarchy level of the mapping.
Logical Consistency: Topological errors checked and corrected using ArcGIS 10, GeoMedia Professional and Oracle Spatial.
Completeness: Western Australia.
Contact
Contact Role: Point of contact
Contact Organisation Name: Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia
Contact Organisation Jurisdiction: Western Australia
Contact Name: Geographic Information Services
Contact Position: Data manager
Mail Address 1: Locked Bag No. 4
Mail Address 2:
Suburb or Place or Locality: Bentley Delivery Centre
State or Locality 2: WA
Country: Australia
Postcode: 6983
Telephone: 08 9368 3925
Facsimile: 08 9474 2405
Electronic Mail Address:
Contact Role: Custodian
Contact Organisation Name: Department of Agriculture and Food Western Australia
Contact Organisation Jurisdiction: Western Australia
Contact Name: Dennis van Gool
Contact Position: Research Officer
Mail Address 1: Locked Bag No. 4
Mail Address 2:
Suburb or Place or Locality: Bentley Delivery Centre
State or Locality 2: WA
Country: Australia
Postcode: 6983
Telephone: 08 9368 3899
Facsimile: 08 9474 2405
Electronic Mail Address:
Metadata Date: June 2016