Land Condition Assessment Tool (LCAT)

The Land Condition Assessment Tool (LCAT) has been developed to support sustainable land management initiatives and programs. A simple, science-based assessment framework provides a means of collecting a standard dataset of land condition and the determination of more consistent results. The LCAT considers grazing land management and ecological principles to determine the current state of the land, rather than its capability, by evaluating key indicators of long-term land condition.

Data and results will be used to evaluate the effectiveness of projects and programs which aim to improve land condition, productivity and sustainability; efforts to reduce soil erosion; the provision of monitoring and decision support information to land managers, and to validate and improve products and services derived from remote sensing and modelling which are used for decision support.