2007 million pixels provide an estimate of RGB soil colour across Australia at a 90-meter spatial resolution. The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network produced these maps using Digital Soil Mapping technologies and observed colour data collated from 1950 to 2020. The data conforms to GlobalSoilMap specifications and is provided in Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF format.
Use Cases
- Modeling soil erosion risk based on estimated soil colour distribution.
- Integrating soil property data into agricultural land-use planning based on spatial soil colour maps.
- Analyzing landscape and ecosystem patterns across Australia based on high-resolution soil attribute data.
Strengths
- Spatial resolution of 3 arc seconds (approximately 90 meters).
- Covers a temporal range from approximately 1950 to 2020.
- Contains 2007 million pixels with coverage per layer.
- Data is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY).
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
Provenance
- Source
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery
- Collection Method
- Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) technologies combined with collations of observed soil colour data from TERN's Soil Data Federation System.
- Time Range
- 1950-2020
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-06-10 19:15:30.614621; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- Australia