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Soil and Landscape Grid National Soil Attribute Maps - Soil Organic Carbon Fractions (3" resolution) - Release 1 

Ver: 1.0
Status of Data: completed
Update Frequency: notPlanned
Security Classification: unclassified
Dataset Published: 2023-11-23
Dataset Last Modified: 2026-06-09
Metadata viewed 906 times
Dataset accessed 149 times
Metadata Created: 2021-08-10
Metadata Last Modified: 2026-08-19
How to cite this collection:
Dobarco, M., Wadoux, A., Malone, B., Minasny, B., McBratney, A. & Searle, R. (2023). Soil and Landscape Grid National Soil Attribute Maps - Soil Organic Carbon Fractions (3" resolution) - Release 1. Version 1.0. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. https://dx.doi.org/10.25919/nf8v-p205 
Data can be accessed from the following links:
HTTPCloud Optimised GeoTIFFs - Soil Organic Carbon Fractions
HTTPFile Naming Conventions
WCSSOF_v1
WMSSOF_v1
HTTPLandscape Data Visualiser - - Soil Organic Carbon Fractions
HTTPPoint-of-truth metadata URL
HTTPro-crate-metadata.json
This is Version 1 of the Soil Organic Carbon Fractions product of the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia.

The Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia has produced a range of digital soil attribute products. This product contains six digital soil attribute maps for each of three depth intervals, 0-5 cm, 5-15 cm, 15-30 cm. These depths are consistent with the specifications of the GlobalSoilMap.net project - GlobalSoilMaps. The digital soil attribute maps are in raster format at a resolution of 3 arc sec (~90 x 90 m pixels).
These maps are generated using Digital Soil Mapping methods.
  • Attribute Definition: Soil Organic Carbon Fractions : mineral-associated organic carbon (MAOC), particulate organic carbon (POC) and pyrogenic organic carbon (PyOC) (Units: Various);
  • Period (temporal coverage; approximately): 1950-2022;
  • Spatial resolution: 3 arc seconds (approximately 90 m);
  • 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;
  • Format: Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF.
 
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.

The observed data used to produce this map was obtained from state and federal soil survey agencies. The work was supported by TERN. CSIRO maintains and makes the data available through the Australian Soil Resource Information System. 
Purpose
The aim is to operate an open national capability that provides access to verified, science-quality land surface dynamics data and soils information layers, plus high-end data analytics tools that integrated with other TERN observations can meet the needs of ecosystem researchers and actionable information for policy makers and natural resource managers. 
Lineage
Data not provided. 
Method DocumentationData not provided.
Procedure StepsData not provided.
Spatial Description
Data not provided. 
Temporal Coverage
From 1950-01-01 to 2022-10-06 
Spatial Resolution

Distance of 90 Metres

Vertical Extent

Data not provided.

ANZSRC - FOR
Agricultural land management
Agricultural spatial analysis and modelling
Soil sciences
Soil sciences not elsewhere classified
Data Stream
Soil and Landscape Grid
GCMD Sciences
AGRICULTURE
LAND SURFACE
SOILS
Horizontal Resolution
30 meters - < 100 meters
Parameters
soil total carbon content
Project
TERN Landscapes
Temporal Resolution
Decadal
Topic
environment
geoscientificInformation
User Defined
3-dimensional soil mapping
Attributes
Australia
Continental
Digital Soil Mapping
DSM
Global Soil Map
Raster
SLGA
Soil
Soil Maps
Soil Organic Carbon Fractions
spatial modelling
spatial uncertainty
TERN_Soils
TERN_Soils_DSM
Author
Dobarco, Mercedes
Co-Author
Wadoux, Alexandre
Malone, Brendan
Minasny, Budiman
McBratney, Alex
Searle, Ross
Contact Point
Dobarco, Mercedes
Publisher
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Improvements to the Australian national soil thickness map using an integrated data mining approach (2020)
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Queensland, 4068, Australia.
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