Soil and Terrain database (SOTER) for Senegal and Gambia

The Soil and Terrain database (SOTER) for Senegal and The Gambia, at scale 1:1 M, has been compiled in the framework of the Land Degradation Assessment in Drylands program (LADA, GLADA).

The primary SOTER database was compiled by the ‘Institut National de Pédologie’ and ISRIC- World Soil Information using the SOTER methodology. Discrimination and characterization of the SOTER units was based on the 90 m digital elevation model (DEM), derived from Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM, more), and the  ‘Carte morphopédologique de la République du Sénegal’.

The SOTER information is presented in ArcGIS9.2^® and in ArcView 3.3^®  format, while the attribute database is in tabular MSAccess^® format.

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