Datasets

  • NZFPNDS FAT g

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    New Zealand Food Production and Nutrition Data Stack (NZFPNDS) contains 19 spatial layers informing on annual nutrition indicators for energy, macronutrients, minerals, and vitamins. NZFPNDS has been modelled employing data from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations, AgriBase® (a product of AsureQuality) and Land Cover Database...
    Created 3 January 2025 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • FSL Topsoil Gravel Content

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    The New Zealand Fundamental Soil Layer originates from a relational join of features from two databases: the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI), and the National Soils Database (NSD). The NZLRI is a national polygon database of physical land resource information, including a soil unit. Soil is one in an inventory of five physical factors...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • S-map Predicted PRetention August 2020

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    Estimates of soil phosphate retention (P-retention; units: %) for the depth interval between 0 to 7.5 cm, covering all of New Zealand. Estimates are made on a grid where each grid cell has dimensions 1,000 m x 1,000 m (100 ha). The value at each grid cell is our best estimate of the mean P-retention across the area occupied by each grid cell. The layer...
    Created 3 November 2024 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • New Zealand Rabbit Proneness

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    Rabbit numbers counted by pest destruction boards to measure the affect of control operations are used to assess the relationship between recorded elements of land resources (parent material, soils, vegetation, slope, erosion) and rabbit populations. The results of the study clearly confirm the often observed concentration of high rabbit populations on the...
    Created 10 September 2021 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • Reserve Potassium

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    Reserve potassium (Kc) is a measure how much potassium is available to plants. There are three potassium pools: dissolved, extractable, and reserve potassium. Potassium (K) is continuously drawn from the extractable to the dissolved pool when it is used by plants, and likewise from the reserve pool to the extractable pool. The reserve potassium is held in...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • EcoSat Woody South Island

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    EcoSat woody is a basic landcover map of New Zealand from Landsat TM imagery at 15m resolution. Classes include water, bare ground, woody cover, herbaceous cover, and snow. Reference: John R. Dymond, James D. Shepherd, The spatial distribution of indigenous forest and its composition in the Wellington region, New Zealand, from ETM+ satellite imagery,...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • LENZ - Mean minimum temperature of the coldest month

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    Mean minimum temperature of the coldest month data layer used in the creation of Land Environments of New Zealand (LENZ) classification. The classification layers have been made publicly available by the Ministry for the Environment (see https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layers/?q=LENZ for to access these layers). Mean minimum temperature of the coldest month is...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • Vulnerability to Soil Structural Degradation

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    Untimely cultivation, grazing and forestry operations when the soils are wet give rise to a rapid and marked loss of soil structure and a reduction in soil permeability and aeration owing to the compaction, deformation and consolidation of the topsoil and upper subsoil. This degradation results from the pressure of heavy machinery or treading by stock....
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • LENZ - Soil particle size

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    Particle size data layer used in the creation of Land Environments of New Zealand (LENZ) classification. The classification layers have been made publicly available by the Ministry for the Environment (see https://data.mfe.govt.nz/layers/?q=LENZ for to access these layers). The data defines the average particle size based on the soil information (from the...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • Christchurch 15m DEM - Height Corrected

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    A 15 metre resolution, floating point precision, elevation grid generated from the LINZ 1:50,000 scale Topographic data layers (20m contours, spot heights, lake shorelines and coastline) using Landcare Research's in-house interpolation software. This DEM was originally produced in New Zealand Map Grid (NZMG) projection with elevation in terms of the...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • Soil Survey of Hauraki Plains County

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    The dataset contains polygons of soils of Hauraki Plains County mapped at 1:50000. The attributes contain the soil series and the soil classification. No analytical properties of the soil are included.
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • Land Elements (South Island)

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This data layer was derived from terrain analysis of a 25 m resolution national digital terrain model to create a setof landform elements. The landform elements are derived from a fuzzy classification based on local geometry (curvature and slope) and landscape context, and provide a primary foundation for mapping soil distribution in steepland land...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • Soil Map of part Raglan County, South Auckland, New Zealand

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    The dataset contains polygons of soils of part Raglan County mapped at 1:63360. The attributes contain the soil series and the soil classification. No analytical properties of the soil are included.
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • FSL North Island v1.0 (all attributes)

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This layer has been updated, the new version can be found here: FSL North Island v1.1 (all attributes) - Informatics Team | | Environment and Land GIS | LRIS Portal (scinfo.org.nz) The New Zealand Fundamental Soil Layer originates from a relational join of features from two databases: the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI), and the National Soils...
    Created 10 February 2023 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • Land Cover Database - LCDB v3.3 Change

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This data set (LCDB v3.3 Change) is a mask of non temporal changes made between LCDB v3.3 and the previous version (LCDB v3.0) and temporal change between the 2001 and 2008 timesteps. The non-temporal changes include errors in the earlier mappings and linework refinement, including reversal of over-smoothed hand-drawn linework in v3.0. Errors were...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • Sediment Lost

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This layer depicts estimated sediment/soil loss across New Zealand and was created using the NZeem erosion model. Erosion control is defined as the prevention of soil loss by an ecosystem. NZeem has been calibrated from sediment discharges measured in New Zealand rivers (Dymond et al., 2010). This model estimates the long-term mean erosion rate from all...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • Bannockburn Soil Map (SB222)

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    A downloadable TIFF image of the 1:15,000 scale SB222 soil map - Soils of the Bannockburn Valley, South Island, New Zealand by FG Beecroft. A full resolution PDF version is also available in the attachments section. Note this is a more detailed soil map than the Grow Otago soils maps, but uses the old Genetic Soil Classification - soil naming conventions...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • ALOS-PRISM Digital Elevation Model

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    The PRISM instrument is carried on the Japanese ALOS satellite and has three sensors that provide forward, nadir, and aft-looking views of the terrain. The forward and aft views can be combined to give stereo coverage with approximately a one-to-one base-to-height ratio, which is almost ideal for generating terrain information. The nominal spatial...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • GDM Classification of New Zealand Biotic Composition for Trees and Shrubs 21 groups

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    This layer provides a classification of New Zealand ecosystems according to tree and shrub composition. Generalized Dissimilarity Modelling was used to produce a model of biotic composition in relation ship to environment and biogeography. This model was used to transform and scale environmental layers to predict community composition. The transformed...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 24 May 2025

  • FSL Profile Readily Available Water

    Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research
    The New Zealand Fundamental Soil Layer originates from a relational join of features from two databases: the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI), and the National Soils Database (NSD). The NZLRI is a national polygon database of physical land resource information, including a soil unit. Soil is one in an inventory of five physical factors...
    Created 3 May 2018 • Updated 24 May 2025