Soil Geographic Databases — Asia, Eurasia
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This page is a catalogue of digital soil resources available outside our organisation, for Asia and Eurasia (Russian Federation and central Asia).
For other resources, please return to the Soil Geographic Databases starting page.
Index: Asia (Sub)Continental | Individual Asian countries | Eurasia
Asia
- European digital archive on soil maps (EuDASM)
Scanned soil maps available for countries in Asia.
- Soil Atlas of Asia
"Download the data of the Soil Atlas of Asia -- This functionality will become available soon." -- not yet as of 04-March-2024
Asian countries
- Digital Soil Map of Nepal
from the National Soil Science Research Center, at 250m resolution. Maps of parent material and a set of soil properties. Downloadable after registration, API to integrate into other products
- SOTER for Nepal
SOil and TERrain Database for Nepal, at a scale of 1:1M
- Gridded databases of China
From the Land-Atmosphere Interaction Research Group of Beijing Normal University. Includes soil property grids (NetCDF format) of China, horizontal resolution 30 arc-seconds (about 1 km at the equator), over eight layers to 2.3 m depth, for land surface modeling, grids of soil hydraulic properties, soil particle-size distribution.
Described in Shangguan, W., et al. (2013). A China data set of soil properties for land surface modeling. Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems, 5(2), 212–224.
也在中国土壤特征数据集
- Predicted colours of Chinese soils
GeoTIFFs of predicted soil dry and moist colours at at 1 km2 grid cell size and over multiple depths. R, G, B separates, RGB true-colour composites. Described in Liu, F., Rossiter, D. G., Zhang, G.-L., Li, D.-C. (2020). A soil colour map of China. Geoderma, 379, 114556. DOI: 10.1016/j.geoderma.2020.114556
- 中国高分辨率国家土壤信息格网基本属性数据集（2010-2018）
本数据集是全国范围的基本土壤物理和化学属性的高分辨率空间分布图，包括pH(H2O)值、有机碳含量、有机碳密度、阳离子交换量、全氮含量、全氮密度、全磷含量、全磷密度、全钾含量、全钾密度、容重、砾石含量(>2mm)、砂粒、粉粒、粘粒、土壤质地类型、土体厚度等。水平空间分辨率为90m，另外也重采样到250m和1000m分辨率，分别服务不同的应用需求；垂直方向包括六个土层深度：0-5, 5-15, 15-30, 30-60, 60-100, 100-200cm。
Described in Liu, F., Wu, H., Zhao, Y., Li, D., Yang, J.-L., Song, X., Shi, Z., Zhu, A.-X., & Zhang, G.-L. (2021). Mapping high resolution National Soil Information Grids of China. Science Bulletin. DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2021.10.013
Eurasia
- Land Resources of Russia, 1:2.5M
Hosted at IIASA. GIS coverages with linked database of soil types and properties. Many other coverages on the same CD-ROM.
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