6fd2f113-9c67-49a4-99e1-8c6c7d4d5e72 dataset Data infodesk ISRIC - World Soil Information data@isric.org 2021-07-14T11:51:39 ISO 19115:2003/19139 2003/Cor.1:2006 4326 EPSG Africa Soil Profiles Database, version 1.0 2012-03-29 6fd2f113-9c67-49a4-99e1-8c6c7d4d5e72 ISRIC World Soil Information is compiling legacy soil profile data of Sub Saharan Africa, as a project activity of the AfSIS project (Globally integrated Africa Soil Information Service). http://africasoils.net/services/data/soil-databases/ Africa Soil Profiles database, version. 1.0 (April 2012) identifies less than 15700 unique soil profiles inventoried from a wide variety of data sources. From the less than 14600 profiles that are geo-referenced, soil layer attribute data are available for less than 12500 and soil analytical data for less than 10000 profiles. The database includes, but is not limited, to the soil attributes specified by GlobalSoilMap.net. Soil attribute values are standardized according to e-SOTER conventions and validated according to routine rules. Odd values are flagged. The degree of validation, and associated reliability of the data, varies because reference soil profile data, that are previously and thoroughly validated, are compiled together with non-reference soil profile data of lesser inherent representativeness. Updated milestone versions of the dataset have been posted online and made available to the project serving as input to the soil property maps generated by AfSIS. The continuously growing dataset will also be made available through the World Soil Information Service upon continuation of the project activity. The version is released here is version 1.0., the latest version is 1.1. Ad van Oostrum ISRIC - World Soil Information Guest researcher PO Box 353 Wageningen 6700AJ Netherlands ad.vanoostrum@wur.nl Johan Leenaars ISRIC - World Soil Information Senior soil scientist PO Box 353 Wageningen 6700AJ Netherlands johan.leenaars@wur.nl https://files.isric.org/public/thumbnails/afsp/AfSP010Qry_ISRIC.png soil profiles Soil science Stratum Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Central African Republic Chad Demcratic Republic of the Congo Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Lesotho Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Republic of the Congo Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe Region Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International (CC BY-NC 3.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ 2500000 geoscientificInformation 1925-01-01 2011-01-01 -17.0 49.0 -34.0 17.5 zip https://files.isric.org/public/afsp/AF-AfSP1.0.zip WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-ftp--download Download https://isric.org/projects/africa-soil-profiles-database-afsp WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Project webpage https://isric.org/sites/default/files/isric_report_2012_03.pdf WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related Report The data quality varies, in accordance with the very nature of legacy soil data. The perceived reliability or quality of the data is subjectively rated, at the profile level, 1-4 (high-low).