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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&nbsp;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>

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2022-02-13
Date (Publication)
2022-10-28
Date (Revision)
2025-12-10
Edition
1.0

Identifier

Title
DataCite
Code
doi:10.25919/r8rv-8617
Codespace
http://dx.doi.org

Publisher

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

Author

University of Sydney - Dobarco, Mercedes ()
City Road, Camperdown, New South Wales, 2050, Australia
Camperdown
New South Wales
2050
Australia

Co-author

University of Sydney - McBratney, Alex (Director - Sydney Institute of Agriculture, Professor of Digital Agriculture & Soil Science)
City Road, Camperdown, New South Wales, 2050, Australia
Camperdown
New South Wales
2050
Australia

Co-author

University of Sydney - Minasny, Budiman ()
City Road, Camperdown, New South Wales, 2050, Australia
Camperdown
New South Wales
2050
Australia

Co-author

CSIRO Agriculture and Food - Malone, Brendan ()
Waite Road, Waite, South Australia, 5064, Australia
Waite
South Australia
5064
Australia

Collaborator

Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation
147 Underwood Avenue, Floreat, 6014, Western Australia, Australia
Floreat
Western Australia
6014
Australia

Collaborator

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia

Collaborator

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

Collaborator

Geoscience Australia
101 Jerrabomberra Avenue, Symonston, 2609, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Symonston
Australian Capital Territory
2609
Australia

Collaborator

Department of Land Resource Management (2012-2016), Northern Territory Government
25 Chung Wah Terrace, Palmerston, Northern Territory, 0830, Australia
Palmerston
Northern Territory
0830
Australia

Collaborator

Office of Environment and Heritage (2011-2019), New South Wales
4 Parramatta Square, 12 Darcy Street, Parramatta, 2150, New South Wales, Australia
Parramatta
New South Wales
2150
Australia

Collaborator

Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts (2012-2015), Queensland Government
400 George Street, Brisbane, Queensland, 4000, Australia
Brisbane
Queensland
4000
Australia

Collaborator

Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (2012-2018), South Australian Government
81-95 Waymouth Street, Adelaide, South Australia, 5000, Australia
Adelaide
South Australia
5000
Australia

Collaborator

Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment, Tasmanian Government
59 Liverpool Street, Hobart, Tasmania, 7000, Australia
Hobart
Tasmania
7000
Australia

Collaborator

Department of Environment and Primary Industries (2013-2015), Victorian Government
8 Nicholson Street, Melbourne, Victoria, 3000, Australia
Melbourne
Victoria
3000
Australia

Collaborator

Department of Agriculture and Food (2006-2017), Western Australian Government
3 Baron-Hay Court South Perth Western Australia 6151, Australia
South Perth
Western Australia
6151
Australia
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

University of Sydney - Dobarco, Mercedes ()
City Road, Camperdown, New South Wales, 2050, Australia
City Road
Camperdown
New South Wales
2050
Australia

Spatial resolution

Spatial resolution
90
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
S
E
W


Temporal extent

Time period
1950-01-01 2022-02-13
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
GCMD Science Keywords
  • SOILS
  • AGRICULTURE
  • LAND SURFACE
ANZSRC Fields of Research
  • Agricultural land management
  • Agricultural spatial analysis and modelling
  • Soil sciences
  • Pedology and pedometrics
TERN Parameter Vocabulary
  • soil type
  • Unitless
QUDT Units of Measure
  • Unitless
GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
  • 30 meters - < 100 meters
GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
  • Decadal
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
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
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

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia
Indooroopilly
Queensland
4068
Australia
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

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/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

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
Agricultural land management Agricultural spatial analysis and modelling Pedology and pedometrics Soil sciences
GCMD Science Keywords
AGRICULTURE LAND SURFACE SOILS

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