Australian soil organic carbon maps provide modelled estimates of total organic carbon mass fraction across the continent. The Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia produced this Release 2 product, which supersedes Release 1. It includes 18 gridded raster maps at six standard depths from 0-5 cm to 100-200 cm, with a spatial resolution of 3 arc seconds.
Use Cases
- Modeling soil carbon sequestration potential based on national-scale organic carbon estimates.
- Analyzing spatial patterns of soil organic matter based on the 90-meter resolution raster data.
- Integrating soil attribute data into land management models based on the six standardized depth layers.
- Assessing changes in soil carbon over time based on the temporal coverage from approximately 1970 to 2021.
Strengths
- Provides data at six standardized soil depths consistent with GlobalSoilMap specifications.
- Offers a spatial resolution of 3 arc seconds, which corresponds to approximately 90-meter pixels.
- Includes 18 gridded maps per attribute, comprising the estimate and its upper and lower confidence limits.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Data may reflect geographic/temporal bias inherent to the modeling and source data.
Provenance
- Source
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
- Collection Method
- Modelled estimate based on the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia.
- Time Range
- Approximately 1970-2021
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-13 08:54:05.066102; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Australia