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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Identification

File identifier
60803da0-a15f-4cc5-9cb5-172fa2460af3 XML
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Online resource
Protocol
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-ftp--download
Protocol
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related
Protocol
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related
Resource identifier
code
60803da0-a15f-4cc5-9cb5-172fa2460af3
Metadata language
English
Spatial representation type
Vector
Encoding
Format
zip
Projection
code
4326
 

Classification of data and services

Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
 

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource

Coupled resource
 
 

Classification of data and services

Coupled resource

Coupled resource
 
 

Keywords

Stratum
  • Soil science
Region
  • Africa
  • Malawi

Other keywords

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

Geographic coverage

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W
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Temporal reference

Temporal extent
Begin
1968-09-01
End
1998-08-30
Temporal extent
Date (Publication)
2006-01-01
 

Quality and validity

Lineage
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
Denominator
1000000
 

Conformity

Conformity
Conformity
 

Conformity

Conformity
Conformity
 

Restrictions on access and use

Access constraints
Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International (CC BY-NC 3.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
 

Responsible organization (s)

Contact for the resource
Organisation name
ISRIC - World Soil Information
Email
bas.kempen@wur.nl
Organisation name
ISRIC - World Soil Information
Email
johan.leenaars@wur.nl
Organisation name
ISRIC - World Soil Information
Email
None
 

Responsible organization (s)

Contact for the resource
Organisation name
ISRIC - World Soil Information
Email
bas.kempen@wur.nl
Organisation name
ISRIC - World Soil Information
Email
johan.leenaars@wur.nl
Organisation name
ISRIC - World Soil Information
Email
None
 

Metadata information

Contact for the metadata
Organisation name
ISRIC - World Soil Information
Email
data@isric.org
Date stamp
2021-07-14T11:52:35
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
 
 

SDS

Conformance class 1: invocable

Access Point URL
Endpoint URL
Technical specification
 

Conformance class 2: interoperable

Access constraints

Limitation
 

Use constraints

Limitation
 

Responsible custodian

Contact for the resource
 
 
 

Overviews

overview

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W
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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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