Databases - Land Resource Information System
The Land Resource Information System comprises the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI), the National Soils Database (NSD) and derivatives including Fundamental Soil Layers (FSL), digital soil maps, and other spatial databases.
Data was provided by Manaaki Whenua researchers, Regional Councils, universities (NZ and overseas), and CRIs. The data were used in a diverse range of applications from education and post-graduate research, to preparing farm plans for land managers, catchment management, resource management in several regions, national monitoring of carbon sources and sinks, and studies of climate change.
Improvements to the data sets have included entering a Soil Parent Material factor into NZLRI towns and offshore islands, and construction of database soil survey boundaries. An audit of Manaaki Whenua's soil databases has been completed, and gaps identified. Soil surveys of Karamea and the Taupō District were digitised, national 1:50,000 scale topographical data was imported from LINZ, and Version 1 of a national digital elevation model (DEM), generated from NZMS 260 series 20 m contours, was released.