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Africa Soil Profiles Database, version 1.1

The Africa Soil Profiles Database, Version 1.1, is compiled by ISRIC - World Soil Information (World Data Center for Soils) as a project activity for the Globally integrated- Africa Soil Information Service (AfSIS) project (www.africasoils.net/data/legacyprofile). It replaces version 1.0.

The Africa Soil Profiles Database is a compilation of georeferenced and standardised legacy soil profile data for Sub-Saharan Africa. Version 1.1 (March 2013) identifies 16,711 unique soil profiles inventoried from a wide variety of data sources and includes profile site and layer attribute data. Soil analytical data are available for 13,835 profiles of which 12,683 are georeferenced, including the attributes as specified by GlobalSoilMap.net. Soil attribute values are standardized according to SOTER conventions and are 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.

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Date (Publication)
2013-03-29
Identifier
b3df7f8d-aa90-4206-a11c-5d95b4dd2327
Presentation form
Digital map
Status
Completed
Author
  ISRIC - World Soil Information - Ad van Oostrum ( Guest researcher )
PO Box 353 , Wageningen , 6700AJ , Netherlands
Author
  ISRIC - World Soil Information - Johan Leenaars ( Senior soil scientist )
PO Box 353 , Wageningen , 6700AJ , Netherlands
Theme
  • soil profiles
Stratum
  • Soil science
Region
  • 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
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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
2500000
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
1925-01-01
End date
2011-01-01
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / 4326
Distribution format
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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
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).
File identifier
b3df7f8d-aa90-4206-a11c-5d95b4dd2327 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name
dataset
Date stamp
2021-07-14T11:52:31
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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