Soil and Landscape Grid National Soil Attribute Maps - Sand (3" resolution) - Release 2
This is Version 2 of the Australian Soil Sand Content product of the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia.
It supersedes the Release 1 product that can be found at https://doi.org/10.4225/08/546F29646877E
The map gives a modelled estimate of the spatial distribution of sand in soils across Australia.
The Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia has 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: 0-5 cm, 5-15 cm, 15-30 cm, 30-60 cm, 60-100 cm and 100-200 cm. These depths are consistent with the specifications of the GlobalSoilMap.net project ( https://esoil.io/TERNLandscapes/Public/Pages/SLGA/Resources/GlobalSoilMap_specifications_december_2015_2.pdf ). The digital soil attribute maps are in raster format at a resolution of 3 arc sec (~90 x 90 m pixels).
Detailed information about the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia can be found at - https://esoil.io/TERNLandscapes/Public/Pages/SLGA/index.html
<ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Attribute Definition: 20 um - 2 mm mass fraction of the < 2 mm soil material determined using the pipette method;</li>
<li>Units: %;</li>
<li>Period (temporal coverage; approximately): 1950-2021;</li>
<li>Spatial resolution: 3 arc seconds (approx 90 m);</li>
<li>Total number of gridded maps for this attribute: 18;</li>
<li>Number of pixels with coverage per layer: 2007M (49200 * 40800);</li>
<li>Data license : Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY);</li>
<li>Target data standard: GlobalSoilMap specifications;</li></ul>
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2021-09-13
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-10-28
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-09-27
- Edition
- 2.0
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- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The map gives a modelled estimate of the spatial distribution of sand in soils across Australia.
- Credit
- We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
- Credit
- <p></p>This work was jointly funded by CSIRO, Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) and the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).<br> We are grateful to the custodians of the soil site data in each state and territory for providing access to the soil site data, and all of the organisations listed as collaborating agencies for their significant contributions to the project and its outcomes.
- Status
- Completed
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Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 90
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Geoscientific information
Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1950-01-01 2021-09-13
- Title
- Updating the Australian digital soil texture mapping (Part 1*): re-calibration of field soil texture class centroids and description of a field soil texture conversion algorithm
- Website
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Updating the Australian digital soil texture mapping (Part 1*): re-calibration of field soil texture class centroids and description of a field soil texture conversion algorithm
Related documentation
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- Updating the Australian digital soil texture mapping (Part 2*): spatial modelling of merged field and lab measurements
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Updating the Australian digital soil texture mapping (Part 2*): spatial modelling of merged field and lab measurements
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- Methodology Summary
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Methodology Summary
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Soil
- Sand
- DSM
- Global Soil Map
- Spatial modelling
- 3-dimensional soil mapping
- Soil Maps
- Digital Soil Mapping
- SLGA
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- 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/
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- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
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- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
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- License
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- Other constraints
- TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure.<br> Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN.<br><br> Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting<br> Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
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- Unclassified
Distribution Information
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- OnLine resource
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SLGA Sand - v2
SND_v2
- OnLine resource
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SLGA Sand - v2
SND_v2
- OnLine resource
- Cloud Optimised GeoTIFFs - Sand, Release 2
- OnLine resource
- Landscape Data Visualiser - Sand, Release 2
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
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- OnLine resource
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- Dataset
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- The models and the prediction uncertainties were assessed by an external validation dataset. Results were compared with Version 1 Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia (v1.SLGA) (Viscarra Rossel et al. 2015). All predictive and functional accuracy diagnostics demonstrate improvements compared with v1.SLGA. Improvements were noted for the sand and clay fraction mapping with average improvement of 3% and 2%, respectively, in the RMSE estimates. Marginal improvements were made for the silt fraction mapping, which was relatively difficult to predict.
- Title
- Malone, B., & Searle, R. (2021). Updating the Australian digital soil texture mapping (Part 2*): spatial modelling of merged field and lab measurements. Soil Research, 59(5), 435–451.
- Website
- https://doi.org/10.1071/SR20284
- Abstract
- Malone, B., & Searle, R. (2021). Updating the Australian digital soil texture mapping (Part 2*): spatial modelling of merged field and lab measurements. Soil Research, 59(5), 435–451.
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- Statement
- The approach, based on machine learning, predicts each soil texture fraction at 90 m grid cell resolution, at depths 0–5 cm, 5–15 cm, 15–30 cm, 30–60 cm, 60–100 cm and 100–200 cm. The approach accommodates uncertainty in converting field measurements to quantitative estimates of texture fractions. Existing methods of bootstrap resampling were exploited to predict uncertainties, which are expressed as 90% prediction intervals about the mean prediction at each grid cell. The models and the prediction uncertainties were assessed by an external validation dataset. Results were compared with Version 1 Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia (v1.SLGA) (Viscarra Rossel et al. 2015). All predictive and functional accuracy diagnostics demonstrate improvements compared with v1.SLGA. Improvements were noted for the sand and clay fraction mapping with average improvement of 3% and 2%, respectively, in the RMSE estimates. Marginal improvements were made for the silt fraction mapping, which was relatively difficult to predict. We also made comparisons with recently released World Soil Grid products (v2.WSG) and made similar conclusions.<br><br> All processing for the generation of these products was undertaken using the R programming language. R Core Team (2020).<br><br> <ul style="list-style-type: disc;"><li>Code - https://github.com/AusSoilsDSM/SLGA</li> <li>Observation data - https://esoil.io/TERNLandscapes/Public/Pages/SoilDataFederator/SoilDataFederator.html</li> <li>Covariate rasters - https://esoil.io/TERNLandscapes/Public/Pages/SLGA/GetData-COGSDataStore.html</li></ul>
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Title
- Soil Texture Mapping V2 Method Summary
- Website
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https://aussoilsdsm.esoil.io/slga-version-2-products/soil-texture
Method documentation
- Title
- Malone, B., & Searle, R. (2021). Updating the Australian digital soil texture mapping (Part 1*): re-calibration of field soil texture class centroids and description of a field soil texture conversion algorithm. Soil Research, 59(5), 419–434.
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https://doi.org/10.1071/SR20283
Method documentation
- Title
- Malone, B., & Searle, R. (2021). Updating the Australian digital soil texture mapping (Part 2*): spatial modelling of merged field and lab measurements. Soil Research, 59(5), 435–451. https://doi.org/10.1071/SR20284
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https://doi.org/10.1071/SR20284
Method documentation
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- R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria.
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https://www.R-project.org/.
Method documentation
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- Viscarra Rossel, R., Chen, C., Grundy, M., Searle, R., Odgers, N., Holmes, K., Griffin, T., Liddicoat, C., Kidd, D., & Clifford, D., (2014). Soil and Landscape Grid National Soil Attribute Maps - Sand (3" resolution) - Release 1. CSIRO. Data Collection.
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https://doi.org/10.4225/08/546F29646877E
Method documentation
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
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urn:uuid/4224ddff-5fb4-4170-b5ea-c0c500599700
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- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
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- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/4224ddff-5fb4-4170-b5ea-c0c500599700
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-08-10T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-09-27T00:00:00
Metadata standard
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- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
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- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
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- 1.0
Metadata standard
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- ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
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- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
- Date (published)
- 2021
- Edition
- 1.0