Soil and Landscape Grid National Soil Attribute Maps - Soil Colour (3" resolution) - Release 1 

We used Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) technologies combined with collations of observed soil colour data from TERN's Soil Data Federation System, to produce surface and subsoil maps of soil colour at a 90 m resolution.

The map gives an estimate of the spatial distribution of RGB soil colour across Australia.

Detailed information about the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia can be found at - SLGA.

• Period (temporal coverage; approximately): 1950-2020;
• Spatial resolution: 3 arc seconds (approx 90 m);
• Number of pixels with coverage per layer: 2007M (49200 * 40800);
• Data license : Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY);
• Target data standard: GlobalSoilMap specifications;
• Format: Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF;

 

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.
This work was jointly funded by CSIRO, Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) and the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).
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. 

The map gives a modelled estimate of the spatial distribution of soil colour across Australia. 

Data not provided.