Africa Soil Profiles Database, version 1.2

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. 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 the Global Soil Map project. 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)
2014-11-03
Citation identifier
b88870b4-6af8-4e78-a3ac-38871d757525
Presentation form
Digital map
Status
Completed
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

ISRIC - World Soil Information

Ad van Oostrum

ad.vanoostrum@wur.nl

Author

ISRIC - World Soil Information

Johan Leenaars

johan.leenaars@wur.nl

Author

ISRIC - World Soil Information

Maria Ruiperez Gonzalez

maria.ruiperezgonzalez@wur.nl

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

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Denominator
2500000
Language
English
Character set
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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
Name Version

zip

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-ftp--download

 		https://files.isric.org/public/afsp/AF-AfSP1.2.zip

Download

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related

 		https://isric.org/projects/africa-soil-profiles-database-afsp

Project webpage

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related

 		https://isric.org/sites/default/files/isric_report_2014_01.pdf

Report
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).

Metadata

File identifier
b88870b4-6af8-4e78-a3ac-38871d757525 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name

dataset
Date stamp
2026-08-14T11:58:00
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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Keywords

soil profiles
Stratum

Soil science


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