Land Resources Portal

What is the Land Resources Portal?

The Land Resources Portal is a web service established in 2023 to support the mapping of land use capability across New Zealand.

Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research and its predecessor organisations have played a substantial part in New Zealand’s land resource mapping. As custodians of the New Zealand Land Resource Inventory (NZLRI) we have responded to the increase in attention on NZLRI data by creating a new web service for the community of LUC practitioners. Following a stock-take of LUC-related materials and the digitisation of relevant items, the ‘Land Resources Portal’ has being established for convenient information access and download.

The Land Resources Portal has been designed to evolve over time. Content will also be co-created with members of the LUCCS Governance Group, which meets twice a year to discuss priorities and standards for LUC work.

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Land Resources Portal

A service for Land Use Capability (LUC) practitioners

In September 2022 the National Policy Statement for Highly Productive Land (NPS-HPL) was released. This targets the safeguarding of New Zealand’s most favourable soils for food and fibre production.
Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research and its predecessor organisations have played a substantial part in New Zealand’s land resource mapping. As custodians of the NZLRI we have responded to the increase in attention resulting from the NPS-HPL's reliance on NZLRI data by creating the Land Resources Portal.

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Coverage: New Zealand

Date: 1960→1990

License: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 New Zealand License (BY-NC-ND)

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