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Soil Monitoring

Soil-health data from the Corangamite and Glenelg Hopkins CMAs and other partners are federated into VAS. The datasets include over 200 monitoring sites sampled at set depths since 2015. For privacy, locations are randomised while still enabling users to chart soil-property trends and compare repeated observations through the VAS portal.

  1. CMA monitoring datasets

    • Corangamite & Glenelg Hopkins CMA soil-health sites (≈100+100 sites; repeated campaigns 2015/2018/2023 and 2019/2023) are published publicly in VAS at contributor request; exact coordinates are privacy-masked by randomising within 2×2 km and 5×5 km tiles; partners can still access precise locations via login. Charts allow trend exploration over time.

  2. Other custodians

    • Selected university datasets (e.g., Federation University, Monash) are published with personal/address details hidden; additional datasets are being processed for profile visualisation