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ISRIC Data Hub (ISRIC - World Soil Information)
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SoilGrids250m 2017-03 - Texture class (USDA system)
Texture class (USDA system) at 7 standard depths predicted using the global compilation of soil ground observations. Accuracy assessement of the maps is availble in Hengl et at. (2017) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169748. Data provided as GeoTIFFs with internal compression (co='COMPRESS=DEFLATE')
Africa SoilGrids - Root zone coarse fragments content aggregated at top 30 cm
Volumetric coarse fragments content (v%) of the soil whole earth, aggregated over rootable depth and the top 30 cm, mapped at 1km resolution
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SoilGrids250m 2017-03 - Predicted WRB 2006 subgroup classes
Predicted WRB 2006 subgroup classes (as integers) predicted using the global compilation of soil ground observations. Accuracy assessement of the maps is availble in Hengl et at. (2017) DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169748. Data provided as GeoTIFFs with internal compression (co='COMPRESS=DEFLATE')
SOTER-based soil parameter estimates (SOTWIS) for Central and Eastern Europe, version 1.0
This harmonized set of soil parameter estimates for Central and Eastern Europe has been derived from a revised version of the 1:2.5M Soil and Terrain (SOTER) Database for Central and Eastern Europe (SOVEUR ver. 1.1) and the ISRIC-WISE soil profile database. The land surface of Central and Eastern Europe, West of the Ural Mountains, has been characterized using 8361 unique maps or SOTER units. The corresponding GIS files include some 9500 mapped polygons, including miscellaneous units. The major soils have been described using 662 profiles, selected by national soil experts as being representative for these units. The associated soil analytical data have been derived from soil survey reports. These sources seldom hold all the physical and chemical attributes ideally required by SOTER. Gaps in the measured soil profile data have been filled using a procedure that uses taxotransfer rules, based on about 9600 soil profiles held in the WISE database, complemented with expert-rules. Parameter estimates are presented by soil unit for fixed depth intervals of 0.2 m to 1 m depth for: organic carbon, total nitrogen, pH(H2O), CECsoil, CECclay, base saturation, effective CEC, aluminium saturation, CaCO3 content, gypsum content, exchangeable sodium percentage (ESP), electrical conductivity of saturated paste (ECe), bulk density, content of sand, silt and clay, content of coarse fragments (less than 2 mm), and available water capacity (-33 to -1500 kPa). These attributes have been identified as being useful for agro-ecological zoning, land evaluation, crop growth simulation, modelling of soil carbon stocks and change, and analyses of global environmental change. The current parameter estimates should be seen as best estimates based on the current selection of soil profiles and data clustering procedure; taxotransfer rules have been flagged to provide an indication of the confidence in the derived data. Results are presented as summary files and can be linked to the 1:2.5M scale SOVEUR map in a GIS, through the unique SOTER-unit code. The secondary data are considered appropriate for studies at the continental scale (greater than 1:2.5 million); correlation of soil analytical data should be done more rigorously when more detailed scientific work is considered.
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1) Batjes NH 1999. Soil vulnerability mapping in Central and Eastern Europe: Issues of data acquisition, quality control and sharing. In: Naff T (editor), Data Sharing for International Water Resource Management: Eastern Europe, Russia and the CIS. NATO Science Series 2: Environmental Security (Vol. 61). Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp 187-206 2) Batjes NH 2002. Carbon and nitrogen stocks in the soils of Central and Eastern Europe. Soil Use and Management 18, 324-329, http:\\dx.doi.org\ 10.1111/j.1475-2743.2002.tb00248.x 3) Batjes NH 2003. A taxotransfer rule-based approach for filling gaps in measured soil data in primary SOTER databases (GEFSOC Project). Report 2003/03, ISRIC - World Soil Information, Wageningen. 4) Batjes NH 2005. SOTER-based soil parameter estimates for Central and Eastern Europe (ver. 2.0). Report 2005/04, ISRIC - World Soil Information, Wageningen,https://isric.org/sites/default/files/isric_report_2005_04.pdf 5) Batjes NH and Bridges EM 1997. Implementation of a Soil Degradation and Vulnerability Database for Central and Eastern Europe. Proceedings of an international workshop (Wageningen, 1-3 October 1997) (also available on CD No.10, Land and Water Digital Media Series, FAO, 2000), ISRIC, Wageningen 6) Batjes NH and Bridges EM 2000. Development of a soil degradation and vulnerability database for Central and Eastern Europe (SOVEUR Project). Eurasian Soil Science 33, 230-232 (Translated from Pochvovedenie No. 2, 2000, pp. 262-265) 7) FAO and ISRIC 2000. Soil and terrain database, soil degradation status, and soil vulnerability assessments for Central and Eastern Europe (scale 1:2.5 million; ver. 1.0). Land and Water Digital Media Series 10, FAO, Rome 8) Nachtergaele FO, van Lynden GWJ and Batjes NH 2002. Soil and terrain databases and their applications with special reference to physical soil degradation and soil vulnerability to pollution in central and eastern Europe. In: Pagliaia M and R Jones (editors), Advances in GeoEcology 35. CATENA Verlag GMBH, Reiskrirchen
Soil property datasets produced in cup4soil project - Beta version
These datasets were prepared within the scope of the CUP4SOIL (Copernicus user uptake for soil information products) project (Copernicus user update project). The soil property maps were generated at a resolution of 20m, and created with LUCAS and other continental level data using digital soil mapping. Users should assess the local ''predictive'' accuracy of the maps prior to using them for making recommendations at local (or field) level. The datasets contain the following soil properties (for top soil (0-30 cm) depth): Soil organic carbon content, pH in water, Total nitrogen, Bulk density (oven dry), Coarse fragments (volumetric), Soil inorganic carbon content, Sand, Silt, Clay. The SoilSuite products (https://c.geoservice.dlr.de/web/datasets/soilsuite_eur_5y) were used as covariates, together with a range of other copernics products. Measurement units and web links for the above properties can be found be below. The maps are provided as Web Map Service (WMS) layers which load dynamically in a GIS software. For instructions see: https://www.isric.org/instruction-wms . The suffix `_mosaic` refers to the full data (20m spatial resolution). If you need to use the data, please use layers with the `_mosaic` suffux. The suffix `_overviews` refers to spatial overviews for faster visualisation. However datasets with the `_overview` suffix will not load to the full resolution.
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