Soil and Landscape Grid National Soil Attribute Maps - Pedogenons (3" resolution) - Release 1
This map gives a modelled estimate of the spatial distribution of Pedogenon soil classes across Australia.<br><br>
Pedogenon mapping is a method for stratifying the landscape (similar to soil-landscape units), which can be used to assess past soil change with a space-for-time substitution approach.<br><br>
Pedogenon classes are a conceptual taxa that aim to define groups of homogeneous environmental variables. These groups are created applying unsupervised classification to a set of state variables, proxies of the soil-forming factors for a given reference time. The assumption is that the soil-forming processes within these classes (i.e., pedogenons) have been relatively similar over pedogenetic time and thus have developed soils with similar properties. Pedogenon classes can afterwards be divided into subclasses along a gradient from less (i.e., remnant pedogenons) to more anthropogenic pressure on soils (i.e., pedophenons), in an analogous way to the concept of genoform and phenoform (Rossiter and Bouma, 2018). The assessment of changes in soil condition can be done with a space for time substitution within and across pedogenon classes. The conceptualization and methodology for pedogenon mapping and using the classes as basis to assess changes in soil condition are explained with more detail in two publications (Román Dobarco et al., 2021a; Román Dobarco et al., 2021b).<br><br>
Detailed information about the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia can be found at - <a href=" https://esoil.io/TERNLandscapes/Public/Pages/SLGA/index.html ">SLGA</a>.<br><br>
<ul style="list-style-type: disc;">
<li>Period (temporal coverage; approximately): 1950-2022;</li>
<li>Spatial resolution: 3 arc seconds (approx 90 m);</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>
<li>Format: Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF;</li></ul>
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2022-02-13
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-10-28
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-12-10
- Edition
- 1.0
Identifier
Publisher
Author
Co-author
Co-author
Co-author
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
Collaborator
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- The map gives a modelled estimate of the spatial distribution of Pedogenon soil classes 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
Point of contact
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 90
- Topic category
-
- Environment
- Geoscientific information
Extent
))
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1950-01-01 2022-02-13
- 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)
-
- Soil
- Raster
- Pedogenon
- DSM
- Global Soil Map
- Spatial modelling
- Soil Maps
- Digital Soil Mapping
- SLGA
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
- 88x31.png
- File description
- CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
- File type
- png
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- 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
- Other constraints
- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
-
Distributor
Distributor
- OnLine resource
- Cloud Optimised GeoTIFFs - Pedogenons, Release 1
- OnLine resource
-
slga_pedogenons
Soil and Landscape Grid National Soil Attribute Maps - Pedogenons
- OnLine resource
- Landscape Data Visualiser - Pedogenons, Release 1
- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
Resource lineage
- Statement
- The map was produced as per methods described at - https://aussoilsdsm.esoil.io/slga-version-2-products/pedogenons All processing for the generation of these products was undertaken using the R programming language. R Core Team (2020).<br><br> Code - https://github.com/AusSoilsDSM/SLGA Observation data - https://esoil.io/TERNLandscapes/Public/Pages/SoilDataFederator/SoilDataFederator.html Covariate rasters - https://esoil.io/TERNLandscapes/Public/Pages/SLGA/GetData-COGSDataStore.html
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Title
- Methods Summary - Pedogenons
- Website
-
https://aussoilsdsm.esoil.io/slga-version-2-products/pedogenons
Method documentation
- Title
- R Core Team (2020). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria.
- Website
-
https://www.R-project.org/
Method documentation
- Title
- Román Dobarco, M., McBratney, A., Minasny, B., & Malone, B. (2021). A framework to assess changes in soil condition and capability over large areas. Soil Security, 4, 100011.
- Website
-
https://doi.org/10.1016/J.SOISEC.2021.100011
Method documentation
- Title
- Román Dobarco, M., McBratney, A., Minasny, B., & Malone, B. (2021). A modelling framework for pedogenon mapping. Geoderma, 393, 115012.
- Website
-
https://doi.org/10.1016/J.GEODERMA.2021.115012
Method documentation
- Title
- Rossiter, D. G., & Bouma, J. (2018). A new look at soil phenoforms – Definition, identification, mapping. Geoderma, 314, 113–121.
- Website
-
https://doi.org/10.1016/J.GEODERMA.2017.11.002
Method documentation
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
-
urn:uuid/5dcaf0e2-1dc3-4ff6-abce-eb7a59444986
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
-
https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/5dcaf0e2-1dc3-4ff6-abce-eb7a59444986
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2021-08-10T00:00:00.000000+00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-12-10T10:13:20.560210+00:00
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
Overviews
Spatial extent
Provided by
