Greater Wellington operates a soil monitoring programme that consists of soil quality monitoring, and continuous soil temperature and moisture monitoring. The information collected is important for determining the impacts of land use on our soils, and for helping with land management practises such as irrigation scheduling.

On this website you can view our continuous soil temperature and soil moisture data. The data are logged on a regular basis (usually every 5 or 15 minutes) and then uploaded to our database via telemetry (radio or cell phone tranmission) every 2 to 3 hours. This is "raw data" because it has not been passed through our quality checks. Once it has been checked it is moved to a secure archive and is referred to as "archived data".

The data we provide for this website is a combination of archived and raw data. The archived data is shown in black and the raw data is shown in red. This ensures that the data we are providing is as accurate and up to date as possible. Should you require the information in a form other than how it is presented here, please contact us and we can usually provide it within two working days.