

Welcome to the Australian Soil Resource Information System ASRIS provides online access to the best publicly available information on soil and land resources in a consistent format across Australia. It provides information at seven different scales (view animation). The upper-three scales provide general descriptions of soil types, landforms and regolith across the continent.



The lower scales provide more detailed information in regions where mapping is complete. Information relates to soil depth, water storage, permeability, fertility, carbon and erodibility. Most soil information is recorded at five depths.



The lowest scale consists of a soil profile database with fully characterised sites that are known to be representative of significant areas and environments. Getting started

View Acid Sulphate Soils in Google Earth (Download the kmz file)

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