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
- Identification
- Distribution
- Quality
- Spatial rep.
- Ref. system
- Content
- Portrayal
- Metadata
- Md. constraints
- Md. maintenance
- Schema info
Identification
Data identification
Citation
- Date (Publication)
- 2006-01-01
- Identifier
- 60803da0-a15f-4cc5-9cb5-172fa2460af3
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Status
- Completed
- Theme
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- calcium
- carbon
- cation exchange capacity
- electrical conductivity
- nitrogen
- organic matter
- bulk density
- soil profiles
- pH
- salinity
- texture
- water holding capacity
- nutrients
- Stratum
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- Soil science
- Region
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- Africa
- Malawi
Legal constraints
- Access constraints
- 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
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- Geoscientific information
- Begin date
- 1968-09-01
- End date
- 1998-08-30
Distribution
Distribution
- Distribution format
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zip
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zip
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Digital transfer options
- 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 )
Quality
Data quality
- 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
Ref. system
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / 4326
Metadata
Metadata
- 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