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dataset
Ulan Turdukulov
ISRIC - World Soil Information
ulan.turdukulov@isric.org
2021-07-14T11:51:37
ISO 19115:2003/19139
2003/Cor.1:2006
4326
EPSG
Africa Soil Profiles Database, version 1.2
2014-11-03
b88870b4-6af8-4e78-a3ac-38871d757525
The Africa Soil Profiles Database, Version 1.2, 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 1.1.
The Africa Soil Profiles Database is a compilation of georeferenced and standardised legacy soil profile data for Sub-Saharan Africa. Version 1.2 (November 2014) identifies 18,532 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 15,564 profiles of which 14,197 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.
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
Maria Ruiperez Gonzalez
ISRIC - World Soil Information
Remote Sensing
PO Box 353
Wageningen
6700AJ
Netherlands
maria.ruiperezgonzalez@wur.nl
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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
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geoscientificInformation
1925-01-01
2011-01-01
-17.0
49.0
-34.0
17.5
zip
https://files.isric.org/public/afsp/AF-AfSP1.2.zip
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https://isric.org/sites/default/files/isric_report_2014_01.pdf
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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).