Africa Soil Profiles Database, version 1.0
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.
INSPIRE
Identification
- File identifier
- 6fd2f113-9c67-49a4-99e1-8c6c7d4d5e72 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
- 6fd2f113-9c67-49a4-99e1-8c6c7d4d5e72
- 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
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- Soil science
- Region
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- 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
Other keywords
- Theme
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- soil profiles
Geographic coverage
Temporal reference
Temporal extent
- Begin
- 1925-01-01
- End
- 2011-01-01
Temporal extent
- Date (Publication)
- 2012-03-29
Quality and validity
- Lineage
- 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).
- Denominator
- 2500000
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
- ad.vanoostrum@wur.nl
- Organisation name
- ISRIC - World Soil Information
- johan.leenaars@wur.nl
Responsible organization (s)
Contact for the resource
- Organisation name
- ISRIC - World Soil Information
- ad.vanoostrum@wur.nl
- Organisation name
- ISRIC - World Soil Information
- johan.leenaars@wur.nl
Metadata information
Contact for the metadata
- Organisation name
- ISRIC - World Soil Information
- Date stamp
- 2021-07-14T11:51:39
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8