"Assessment of gully erosion severity over 1200 circular areas of 100 hectares over NSW except for the Western, Lower Murray Darling and Sydney Metropolitan CMAs. The areas were carefully selected from a sub set of topographic map grid intersects used in Land Degradation Survey of NSW in 1988 (LDS) but moved approximately 200m NE to align with GDA96 map sheet 5km by 10km intersects. The sites selected will represent gully erosion as a indicator of soil condition and management for each CMA area across NSW and are set up as a baseline to monitor trends in gully conditon. Each area was assessed for type and extent of gully erosion and attributed using Franklin et al. classification. Land use and vegetation in the area was also recorded. Mapping was undertaken at an observation scale of approximately 1:5000 and each 1:100 000 scale map sheet was stored separately in personal geodatabases. Where a 1:100 000 scale map sheet crossed a CMA boundary the 100 ha circles were recorded in a separate file for each CMA area.; ; "