Repositório Brasileiro Livre para Dados Abertos do Solo

The Free Brazilian Repository for Open Soil Data – febr, www.ufsm.br/febr – is a centralized repository targeted at storing open soil data and serving it in a standardized and harmonized format. The repository infrastructure was built using open source and/or free (of cost) software, and was primarily designed for the individual management of datasets. A dataset-driven structure helps datasets authors to be properly acknowledged. Moreover, it gives the flexibility to accommodate many types of data of any soil variable. This is accomplished by storing each dataset using a collection of spreadsheets accessible through an online application. Spreadsheets are familiar to any soil scientist, the reason why it is easier to enter, manipulate and visualize soil data in febr. They also facilitate the participation of soil survey experts in the recovery and quality assessment of legacy data. Soil scientists can help in the definition of standards and data management choices through a public discussion forum, febr-forum@googlegroups.com. A comprehensive documentation is available to guide febr maintainers and data contributors. A detailed catalog gives access to the 14 477 soil observations – 42% of them from south and southeastern Brazil – from 232 datasets contained in febr. Global and dataset-specific visualization and search tools and multiple download facilities are available. The latter includes standard file formats and connections with R and QGIS through the febr package. Various products can be derived from data in febr: specialized databases, pedotransfer functions, fertilizer recommendation guides, classification systems, and detailed soil maps. By sharing data through a centralized soil data storing and sharing facility, soil scientists from different fields have the opportunity to increase collaboration and the much needed soil knowledge.

Date (Publication): 2020-01-20

Citation identifier: ebd8aed6-48db-11ea-b9a7-a0481ca9e724

Presentation form: Digital map

Status: On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná - Câmpus Santa Helena	Alessandro Samuel-Rosa	alessandrorosa@utfpr.edu.br	Point of contact

Theme

soil profiles

Stratum

Soil science

Region

Brazil

Access constraints: License

Use constraints: License

Other constraints: http://coral.ufsm.br/febr/politica-de-dados/

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 10000

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Begin date: 1939-03-15

End date: 2018-02-17

Reference system identifier: EPSG / 4326

Distribution format

Name	Version
zip

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related	http://coral.ufsm.br/febr/	Project webpage
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related	http://coral.ufsm.br/febr/view.html	Web mapping
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related	https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.15354.34245	Scientific paper
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related	https://github.com/febr-team/febr-data/tree/master/data	Download