Soil Landscape Mapping - Best Available (DPIRD-027)
Published by Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
Description
Soil-landscape mapping covering Western Australia at the best available scale (Version 05.02). It is a compilation of various surveys at different scales varying between 1:20,000 and 1:3,000,000. Mapping conforms to a nested hierarchy established to deal with the varying levels of information resulting from the variety of scales in mapping. For further information refer to Department of Agriculture Resource Management Technical Reports RMTR No. 280 and RMTR No. 313. Land capability and land quality attribution is included, refer to Department of Agriculture Resource Management Technical Report No. 298 for a description of the methodology employed.
Resources
Resource Management Technical Report 280 - Soil-landscape mapping in south-Western Australia : an overview of methodology and outputs
Resource Management Technical Report 313 - Soil-landscapes of Western Australia's rangelands and arid interior
Resource Management Technical Report 298 - Land evaluation standards for land resource mapping : assessing land qualities and determining land capability in south-western Australia
NRInfo map portal
Soil landscape -best available - metadata statement
File Geodatabase
Geopackage
GeoJSON
Shapefile
Web Feature Service
ArcGIS Server Map Service
Web Mapping Service
Metadata
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- Last Updated
- 10 Mar 2026
- Created
- 7 Dec 2016
- Update Frequency
- Infrequent
- Source Portal
- Wa
Dublin Core Metadata
- Publisher
- Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
- Creator
- Agriculture Resource Management and Assessment
- Type
- Dataset
- Language
- en
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- Spatial Coverage
- Western Australia, Australia
- Temporal Coverage
- 7 Dec 2016 – 10 Mar 2026
- Related Resources
- http://researchlibrary.agric.wa.gov.au/rmtr/263/, http://researchlibrary.agric.wa.gov.au/rmtr/295/, http://researchlibrary.agric.wa.gov.au/rmtr/280/, https://www.dpird.wa.gov.au/environment-and-sustainability/nrinfo-for-western-australia/, https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/d7b47c02-7f2b-445a-bcc1-e4dd05bafc6c/resource/e454410b-8209-4fb9-a5f5-b275d6236bae/download/sl_mapping_meta.doc
- Subjects
- soil landscape mapping, soil mapping, soil surveys