Soil Quality Assessment Data for an Indiana Site, USA

Indiana, USA, serves as a reference site for a dataset examining the combination effects of dataset selection, scoring functions, and indexing methods on soil quality assessment. The dataset, created by Khandakar Islam and last updated in April 2026, is a 9.5 KB Excel (XLS) file shared under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Compare soil quality scoring functions based on the described assessment framework.
• Evaluate the impact of different dataset selection strategies on soil quality indices.
• Benchmark indexing methods for environmental data aggregation as referenced in the description.

Strengths

• Dataset is openly licensed (CC-BY-4.0) for reuse.
• File size is small (9.5 KB), facilitating quick download and inspection.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Khandakar Islam via figshare.

Collection Method

Likely contains processed or modeled data from a soil quality assessment study.

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-07 17:32:57; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Indiana, USA (as a reference site).