Version 1 of the Soil Coarse Fragments product from the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia. It contains 18 raster maps representing the probability of coarse fragment classes at six standard depths, with a spatial resolution of 3 arc seconds. The maps were generated using Digital Soil Mapping methods and cover an approximate temporal period from 1950 to 2022.
Use Cases
- Modeling soil water infiltration and drainage based on coarse fragment probability layers.
- Assessing land suitability for agriculture and construction based on soil stoniness.
- Integrating soil attribute data into regional environmental and hydrological models.
- Validating and updating national-scale soil property databases.
Strengths
- High spatial resolution of approximately 90 meters per pixel.
- Provides data for six standardized soil depths consistent with GlobalSoilMap specifications.
- Includes upper and lower confidence limits for each attribute map.
- Total uncompressed data volume is about 8GB, indicating detailed spatial coverage.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
- Collection Method
- Generated using Digital Soil Mapping methods.
- Time Range
- 1950-2022 (approximately)
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-10 19:25:00.317915; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Australia