This Series provides an inventory of soil and landscape properties of an area and identifies major soil and landscape qualities and constraints. It integrates soil and topographic features into single units with relatively uniform land management requirements. Soils are described in terms of soil materials and using various classifications such as the Australian Soil Classification, Great Soil Group systems and Northcote.
The Series provides maps that are intended for all of eastern and central NSW, based on standard 1:100,000 or 1:250,000 topographic sheets - 1:250,000 scale was used in areas of broad-acre agriculture, mainly in the sheep-wheat belt. The 1:100,000 scale was used in areas under intense land use pressure or change, such as coastal and urban/peri-urban areas and regions of intensive cropping.
Collection of Soil Landscape Series information ceased in 2005 and, in 2010, the last of 39 paired soil landscape maps were published.
Information on individual soil landscape series products can be sourced from the:
Other NSW soil mapping products can be found on the soil maps page and include the:
- Soil and Land Resource Series
- Land Systems
- Acid Sulfate Soil risk mapping
- Hydrogeological Landscapes
- Statewide land and soil mapping
