New Zealand National Digital Elevation Model (South Island) - a 25 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.

Winter solar radiation 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). Winter solar radiation reaches a minimum in June, the month when the sun...

Spatial estimates of gravimetric soil carbon (%) for the 0–7.5 topsoil layer, over the land surface of New Zealand. It was derived using gradient boosting regression from a range of environmental classification, national soil classification, and climate layers as explanatory variables. The model was calibrated on a large number of samples (approx. 17,000...

Mean annual erosion rates (tonnes of soil/km2/yr) in the North Island of New Zealand under current landcover generated from EcoSat Woody (2001-2003). This layer is not available for download on LRIS. If you are interested in downloading that layer, please contact John Dymond. Reference: John R. Dymond, Harley D. Betts, Christina S. Schierlitz, An erosion...

Estimates of soil pH, as measured in a 1:5 water solution, for the 0 – 7.5 cm depth interval. The values of this layer represent estimates for the centre of a 100 m x 100 m (1 ha) grid covering all of New Zealand, with the exception of areas that do not have soils. The layer was generated using a 3 dimensional quantile regression forest model, that...

This image comes from the European Space Agency’s Copernicus Programme taken on 10 February at 11:25 NZDT. This before image was chosen to have a similar sun angle to the after image (https://lris.scinfo.org.nz/layer/497-kaikoura-after-earthquake-22nd-november-2016/ ), thus minimising differences due to illumination. Copernicus’ six Sentinel satellites...

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...

Mean annual temperature 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 annual temperature is recorded in °C. The climate station data used...

This layer comes from the Threatened Environment Classification (TEC) version 2012, which is a source of national scale background information on New Zealand's land environments. Specifically, it shows how much native (indigenous) vegetation remains within land environments, and how past vegetation loss and legal protection are distributed across New...

New Zealand National Digital Elevation Model (North Island) - a 25 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.

Slope 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). This slope data layer is measured in degrees and was created from a 25-metre digital...

This layer was derived from three existing data layers: the Land Cover Database 2 (LCDB2) (MfE 2002); the Land Use Map (LUM) from the Land Use Carbon Analysis System (MfE 2008; Dymond et al. 2012); and EcoSat Forests (Shepherd et al. 2002). Indigenous forest classes from EcoSat Forests were combined with classes from LCDB2 to form basic ecosystems...

Drainage 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). This data layer described the internal drainage of soils. The classification used in...

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...