Soil Geographic Databases — Asia, Eurasia

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
   
• A China dataset of soil properties for land surface modelling (version 2)
  Described in Shi, G., et al. (2025). A China dataset of soil properties for land surface modelling (version 2, CSDLv2). Earth System Science Data, 17(2), 517-543. DOI: 10.5194/essd-17-517-2025
  "This dataset maps 23 soil physical and chemical properties at six standard depth layers (0-5, 5-15, 15-30, 30-60, 60-100, and 100-200 cm) across China with a spatial resolution of 90 meters. The source data includes 8979 soil profiles from the Second National Soil Survey of China, 1540 soil profiles from the World Soil Information Service, 76 soil profiles from the First National Soil Survey of China, and 614 soil profiles from regional databases. This dataset includes pH, sand, silt, clay, bulk density, organic carbon content, gravel, alkali-hydrolysable nitrogen, total nitrogen, cation exchange capacity, porosity, total potassium, total phosphorus, available potassium, available phosphorus, and soil color (in both Munsell and RGB formats)."
   
• 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.
   
• "Cartographic Block" of the Soil-Geographic Database of Russian Federation
  Почвенная карта РСФСР 1:2 500 000 (Фридланд с соавторами, 1988); Soil map of the RSFSR 1:2 500 000 (Friedland et al., 1988). From the Soil Data Center of the Soil Science Department of M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University. Also shows geo-referenced profiles with descriptions. Unfortunately only viewable on-line, no downloads.