Soil Carbon Accounts - Soil Organic Carbon Extent Physical Account 2021 1.4.1

 

Description

This account provides information on soil organic carbon (SOC) in NSW (by tonnes and tonnes per hectare) for statistical areas (at SA2 level). 

This account was based on data from the Australian Statistical Geography Standard (ASGS) files produced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and the Digital soil maps of SOC stocks estimation over the 0- to 30-cm depth interval that are presented at 100m resolution across NSW produced by the NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water and accessed through the NSW SEED data portal (Gray et al., 2021). The account shows the area of each Statistical Area and the estimated stock of SOC.

 

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