Tagged: North Island

The New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI) is a national database of physical land resource information. It comprises two sets of data compiled using stereo aerial photography, published and unpublished reference material, and extensive field work:

1. An inventory of five physical factors (rock type, soil, slope, present type and severity of erosion, and vegetation). A 'homogeneous unit area' approach is used to record the five physical factors simultaneously to a level of detail appropriate for presentation at a scale of 1:50,000.

2. A Land Use Capability (LUC) rating of the ability of each polygon to sustain agricultural production, based on an assessment of the inventory factors above, climate, the effects of past land use, and the potential for erosion. The NZLRI covers the country in 11 regions, each with a separate LUC classification.

The first edition NZLRI provides national coverage from mapping between 1973 and 1979 at a scale of 1:63,360. A limited revision regional upgrade of the north Waikato area was completed at a scale of 1:63,360 in 1983. Second edition NZLRI regional upgrades at a scale of 1:50,000 have been completed for Northland, Wellington, Marlborough and Gisborne-East Cape. Third edition NZLRI layers contained a restructured polygon attribute table to allow the core NZLRI to complement the newly created fundamental soil layers with minimal duplication.

The dataset contains polygons of soils of the Manawatu mapped at 1:63360. The attributes contain the soil series and the soil classification. No analytical properties of the soils are included.

The dataset contains polygons of soils of Hamilton City mapped at 1:20 000. The attributes contain the soil series and the soil classification. No analytical properties of the soil are included.

The dataset contains polygons of soils of Palmerston North City and environs mapped at 1:15840. The attributes contain the soil series and the soil classification. No analytical properties of the soils are included.

The dataset contains polygons of soils of the coromandel. The attributes contain the soil series and the soil classification. No analytical properties of the soil are included.

Soilscapes are defined as "a landscape unit including a limited number of soil classes that are geographically distributed according to an identifiable pattern". These first approximation soilscapes are derived from legacy data and expert knowledge.

The dataset contains polygons of soils of Otaki District mapped at 1:15000. The attributes contain the soil series and the soil classification. No analytical properties of the soils are included.

The dataset contains polygons of soils of Franklin County mapped at 1:63 360. The attributes contain the soil series and the soil classification. No analytical properties of the soil are included.

The dataset contains polygons of soils of part Wanganui County mapped at 1:63360. The attributes contain the soil series and the soil classification. No analytical properties of the soils are included.

The dataset contains polygons of soils of Piako County mapped at 1:63 360. The attributes contain the soil series and the soil classification. No analytical properties of the soil are included.