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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Identification
- File identifier
- b3df7f8d-aa90-4206-a11c-5d95b4dd2327 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
- b3df7f8d-aa90-4206-a11c-5d95b4dd2327
- 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)
- 2013-03-29
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
- 2021-07-14T11:52:31
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8