The Boggy Index is a soil moisture vulnerability index that tells companies where there are potential surface moisture conditions that will impact the movement and access to key sites for operators using heavy machinery.

The Boggy Index uses climate, typography and satellite imagery to determine the suitability of land and the risk of saturated soils during rainfall.

The Bowen Basin is undergoing extensive development from linear infrastructure planning, construction, mining and exploration to traditional agriculture and pastoral farm operations.

The product will provide a clear picture of the best areas in the Bowen Basin that are free of soil moisture vulnerability, drain quickly after rain and those more vulnerable to “boggy” conditions.

Satellite imagery captured between 2000 and 2011 will be used to provide a “bogginess” value.

The company said: “The Boggy Index – Bowen Basin is ideal as a backdrop for feasibility analysis or site access selection and as a contextual overview of relative soil moisture over the entire Bowen Basin area.”

The product is purchased on a square kilometre basis, clipped to a localised specific area of interest or over the entire Basin and is available for purchase immediately.