Soil Condition Monitoring 2008 Baseline Site Database

From January 2008 to June 2009 a permanent network of paired 25 by 25m quadrats was established across NSW to establish a baseline for soil carbon, soil pH, soil structure and contextual data collected and entered into the database as an important step in collating, evaluating, researching and safe keeping the monitoring data. Because it is important to maintain the representativeness of the permanent monitoring sites the data is only available to bona fide users under data licence agreement to preserve site representativeness and landholder privacy. The database contains raw field information pertinent to the monitoring program. It contains landholder details, site location details,soil profile information pertinent to soil condition evaluation, occupational health and saftey assessments, field test results, photo record details and laboratory test results. It has been combined with other datasets into a single data base. The other data sets include land and soil capability assessments and land management records.