Australian Soil Cation Exchange Capacity Maps at 90-Meter Resolution

Version 1 of the Australian Soil Effective Cation Exchange Capacity product from the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia. It contains 18 raster maps representing the soil attribute and its confidence limits across six standard depths, at a spatial resolution of 3 arc seconds. The maps were generated by combining the best available Digital Soil Mapping products across Australia.

Use Cases

• Modeling soil nutrient availability for agricultural planning based on cation exchange capacity values.
• Assessing soil health and fertility across Australian landscapes using the six standardized depth layers.
• Integrating soil property data into environmental models based on the GlobalSoilMap.net specifications.
• Creating regional soil maps for land-use planning based on the 90-meter resolution raster data.

Strengths

• Provides data for six standardized soil depths (0-5cm to 100-200cm) consistent with GlobalSoilMap.net.
• Offers 18 total gridded maps, including upper and lower confidence limits for the primary attribute.
• Has a spatial resolution of 3 arc seconds, which corresponds to approximately 90-meter pixels.
• Covers a long temporal period, approximately from 1950 to 2013.

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 by combining the best available Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) products across Australia.

Time Range

1950-2013 (approximately)

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-10 20:27:12.855373; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia