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Soil and Landscape Grid Australia-Wide 3D Soil Property Maps (3" resolution) - Release 1

The Soil Facility produced a range of digital soil attribute products. Each product contains six digital soil attribute maps, and their upper and lower confidence limits, representing the soil attribute at six depths: 0-5cm, 5-15cm, 15-30cm, 30-60cm, 60-100cm and 100-200cm. These depths are consistent with the specifications of the GlobalSoilMap.net project ( https://isric.org/projects/globalsoilmapnet/ ). The digital soil attribute maps are in raster format at a resolution of 3 arc sec (~90 x 90 m pixels).


Attributes included:

Available Water Capacity;

Bulk Density - Whole Earth;

Clay;

Effective Cation Exchange Capacity;

pH - CaCl2;

Silt;

Sand;

Total Nitrogen;

Total Phosphorus.


Period (temporal coverage; approximately): 1950-2013;

Spatial resolution: 3 arc seconds (approx 90m);

Total number of gridded maps for this attribute: 18;

Number of pixels with coverage per layer: 2007M (49200 * 40800);

Total size before compression: about 8GB;

Total size after compression: about 4GB;

Data license : Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC By);

Target data standard: GlobalSoilMap specifications;

Format: GeoTIFF.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2018-03-19
Date (Revision)
2018-03-19
Edition
v3

Publisher

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, Western Australia, 6151, Australia
Kensington
Western Australia
6151
Australia

Author

University of Sydney - Chen, Charlie
City Road, Camperdown, New South Wales, 2050, Australia
Camperdown
New South Wales
2050
Australia

Author

University of Sydney - Clifford, David
City Road, Camperdown, New South Wales, 2050, Australia
Camperdown
New South Wales
2050
Australia

Author

CSIRO Agriculture and Food - Grundy, Mike (Research Director – Soil and Landscapes)
Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Black Mountain
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia

Author

Curtin University - Viscarra Rossel, Raphael A.
Kent Street, Bentley, Western Australia, 6102, Australia
Bentley
Western Australia
6102
Australia

Author

CSIRO Agriculture and Food - Searle, Ross (Senior Experimental Scientist)
Clunies Ross Street, Black Mountain, 2601, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Black Mountain
Australian Capital Territory
2601
Australia

Identifier

Title
DataCite
Code
10.4225/08/5aaf553b63215
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org
Keywords (Discipline)
  • TERN_Soils
  • TERN_Soils_DSM
  • Soil
  • TERN
  • Raster
  • Attributes
  • Bulk Density
  • Continental
  • Australia
  • DSM
  • Global Soil Map
  • spatial modelling
  • visible-near infrared spectroscopy
  • 3-dimensional soil mapping
  • spatial uncertainty
  • Soil Maps
  • Digital Soil Mapping
  • Effective Cation Exchange Capacity
  • Available Water Capacity
  • Bulk Density - Whole Earth
  • Clay
  • pH - CaCl2
  • Silt
  • Sand
  • Total Nitrogen
  • Total Phosphorus
  • ECEC
  • AWC
  • BD
  • pH
  • SLGA
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Pedology and pedometrics
  • Soil sciences not elsewhere classified

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Temporal extent

Time period
1950-01-01 2013-12-31

Resource constraints

Use limitation
The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
File name
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File description
CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
File type
png
Linkage
https://w3id.org/tern/static/cc-by/88x31.png

Title
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
Alternate title
CC-BY
Edition
4.0
Website
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints
License
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Data is accessible online and may be reused in accordance with licence conditions

Resource constraints

Classification
Unclassified
Credit
All Rights (including copyright) CSIRO 2014.
Title
Browse all Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia collections
Website
Browse all Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia collections

Browse all Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia collections

Title
Browse all Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia Digital Soil Property Maps
Website
Browse all Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia Digital Soil Property Maps

Browse all Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia Digital Soil Property Maps

Title
File Naming Conventions
Website
File Naming Conventions

File Naming Conventions

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, Western Australia, 6151, Australia
Kensington
Western Australia
6151
Australia
Distribution format
OnLine resource
http://hdl.handle.net/102.100.100/19200?index=1

Resource lineage

Statement
The digital soil attribute maps and their uncertainties were generated by harmonising different sources of soil data collected from point locations and using a 3-dimensional spatial modelling technique. Soil inventory: The national soil site data originates from two sources: (i) A set collated with the assistance of all the Australian State and Territory soil agencies (Searle, 2014). The individual State soil databases were combined into a single database adhering to the NatSoil Site Schema (Jacquier et al., 2012). This database contains morphological and laboratory data for all the soil profiles publicly available within existing agency databases in 2013. (ii) Spectroscopic estimates of the soil attributes with the Australian visible–near infrared database (Viscarra Rossel and Webster, 2012) on soil samples collected for the National Geochemical Survey of Australia (NGSA) (de Caritat, P & Cooper, M, 2011). Harmonisation to standard depths: Data for each soil attribute, for all depths that were present in the inventory, was extracted and harmonised to the six standard depths using two different methods. When there were data from more than two depths, a mass preserving spline (Bishop et al., 1999) was fitted to derive the standard depths. When only two depths were present we used the imputation method described by Clifford et al. (2014). Spatial modelling: The digital soil maps were generated by a 3-dimensional data mining-kriging approach with Monte Carlo resampling to produce estimates of uncertainty. The approach uses statistical relationships between the observed soil attributes at point locations and continuous values of more than 40 environmental covariates (including remote sensing, climatic data, a digital elevation model and terrain derivatives, gamma radiometrics and other geophysical data), and kriging of their residuals. The Cubist data mining software (Rulequest Research., 2008) implemented in the software R (R Core Team, 2013) was used for the data mining and the gstat package (Pebesma, 2004) was used for the geostatistical modelling. These hybrid models produce quantitative estimates of soil properties. Uncertainties in both parts of the model were quantified and expressed as the 90% confidence limits. Descriptions of the approach are given in Viscarra Rossel et al. (2015a); Viscarra Rossel and Chen (2011) and Viscarra Rossel, (2011).
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
EPSG/EPSG:4326

Reference system type
Geodetic Geographic 2D

Metadata

Metadata identifier
urn:uuid/88f6047c-90a6-5237-a6c9-46815d7c2791

Title
TERN GeoNetwork UUID - Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Point of contact

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
+61 7 3365 9097

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset
Metadata linkage
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/88f6047c-90a6-5237-a6c9-46815d7c2791

Point of truth URL of this metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2018-03-19T17:14:38+11:00

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
Edition
1

Metadata standard

Title
ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
Edition
1.0

Metadata standard

Title
ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
Edition
1.0
Title
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
Date (published)
2021
Edition
1.0

Identifier

Code
10.5281/zenodo.5652221
Website
https://github.com/ternaustralia/TERN-ISO19115/releases/tag/v1.0

 
 

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Keywords

ANZSRC Fields of Research
Pedology and pedometrics Soil sciences not elsewhere classified

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