Soil and Terrain Database (SOTER) for Malawi

The Soil and Terrain database for Malawi (version 1.0), at scale 1:1 million, was compiled based on the soil map of Malawi at scale 1:250,000 (compiled by the Land Resources Evaluation Project) that was complemented with soil boundary information from the provisional soil map at scale 1:1 million. The 90m SRTM-DEM was used to define the various landform types of the SOTER units and also to adjust their boundaries. The SOTER map units were attributed with soil information obtained from the Africa Soil Profiles Database. The SOTER compilation followed the methodology described in the SOTER Procedures Manual Version 2.



SOTER forms a part of the ongoing activities of ISRIC, FAO and UNEP to update the world's baseline information on natural resources.The project involved collaboration with national soil institutes from the countries in the region as well as individual experts.



DOI for dataset (submitted): 10.17027/isric.wdcsoils.20160002

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Date (Publication)
2006-01-01
Citation identifier
60803da0-a15f-4cc5-9cb5-172fa2460af3
Presentation form
Digital map
Status
Completed
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

ISRIC - World Soil Information

Bas Kempen

bas.kempen@wur.nl

Point of contact

ISRIC - World Soil Information

Johan Leenaars

johan.leenaars@wur.nl

Author

ISRIC - World Soil Information

Koos Dijkshoorn

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Theme

  • calcium

  • carbon

  • cation exchange capacity

  • electrical conductivity

  • nitrogen

  • organic matter

  • bulk density

  • soil profiles

  • pH

  • salinity

  • texture

  • water holding capacity

  • nutrients

Stratum

  • Soil science

Region

  • Africa

  • Malawi
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Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International (CC BY-NC 3.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/

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1000000
Language
English
Character set
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Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
1968-09-01
End date
1998-08-30
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / 4326
Distribution format
Name Version

zip

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OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-ftp--download

 		https://files.isric.org/public/soter/MW-SOTER.zip

Download

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related

 		https://isric.org/index.php/projects/soil-and-terrain-soter-database-programme

Project webpage

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related

 		https://isric.org/sites/default/files/isric_report_2016_01.pdf

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Dataset
Statement

Dijkshoorn JA, Leenaars JGB, Huting J and Kempen B 2016. Report 2016/01, ISRIC―World Soil Information, Wageningen (doi:10.17027/isric-wdcsoils.20160001, with dataset). http://isric.org/sites/default/files/isric_report_2016_01.pdf

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File identifier
60803da0-a15f-4cc5-9cb5-172fa2460af3 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
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Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name

dataset
Date stamp
2021-07-14T11:52:35
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version

2003/Cor.1:2006
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

ISRIC - World Soil Information

Data infodesk

data@isric.org

Point of contact
 
 

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overview

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Keywords

bulk density calcium carbon cation exchange capacity electrical conductivity nitrogen nutrients organic matter pH salinity soil profiles texture water holding capacity
Stratum

Soil science


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