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Soil and Terrain Database (SOTER) for Malawi

The Soil and Terrain database for Malawi (version 1.0), at scale 1:1 million, was compiled based on the soil map of Malawi at scale 1:250,000 (compiled by the Land Resources Evaluation Project) that was complemented with soil boundary information from the provisional soil map at scale 1:1 million. The 90m SRTM-DEM was used to define the various landform types of the SOTER units and also to adjust their boundaries. The SOTER map units were attributed with soil information obtained from the Africa Soil Profiles Database. The SOTER compilation followed the methodology described in the SOTER Procedures Manual Version 2.

SOTER forms a part of the ongoing activities of ISRIC, FAO and UNEP to update the world's baseline information on natural resources.The project involved collaboration with national soil institutes from the countries in the region as well as individual experts.

DOI for dataset (submitted): 10.17027/isric.wdcsoils.20160002

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Date (Publication)
2006-01-01
Identifier
60803da0-a15f-4cc5-9cb5-172fa2460af3
Presentation form
Digital map
Status
Completed
Point of contact
  ISRIC - World Soil Information - Bas Kempen ( Soil mapping specialist )
PO Box 353 , Wageningen , 6700AJ , Netherlands
Author
  ISRIC - World Soil Information - Johan Leenaars ( Senior soil scientist )
PO Box 353 , Wageningen , 6700AJ , Netherlands
Author
  ISRIC - World Soil Information - Koos Dijkshoorn ( Former staff )
PO Box 353 , Wageningen , 6700AJ , Netherlands
Theme
  • calcium
  • carbon
  • cation exchange capacity
  • electrical conductivity
  • nitrogen
  • organic matter
  • bulk density
  • soil profiles
  • pH
  • salinity
  • texture
  • water holding capacity
  • nutrients
Stratum
  • Soil science
Region
  • Africa
  • Malawi
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License
Use constraints
License
Other constraints
Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International (CC BY-NC 3.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
Spatial representation type
Vector
Denominator
1000000
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
1968-09-01
End date
1998-08-30
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / 4326
Distribution format
  • zip ( )

OnLine resource
Download ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-ftp--download )
OnLine resource
Project webpage ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )
OnLine resource
Report ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Statement
Dijkshoorn JA, Leenaars JGB, Huting J and Kempen B 2016. Report 2016/01, ISRIC―World Soil Information, Wageningen (doi:10.17027/isric-wdcsoils.20160001, with dataset). http://isric.org/sites/default/files/isric_report_2016_01.pdf
File identifier
60803da0-a15f-4cc5-9cb5-172fa2460af3 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name
dataset
Date stamp
2021-07-14T11:52:35
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
2003/Cor.1:2006
Point of contact
  ISRIC - World Soil Information - Data infodesk
 
 

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Keywords

bulk density calcium carbon cation exchange capacity electrical conductivity nitrogen nutrients organic matter pH salinity soil profiles texture water holding capacity

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