Australian Soil Organic Carbon Fractions at 90-Meter Resolution

Eighteen raster maps detail soil organic carbon fractions across Australia. The maps cover three depth intervals up to 30 cm at a 3 arc-second spatial resolution. The data was produced by the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia using digital soil mapping methods.

Use Cases

• Modeling soil carbon sequestration potential based on mineral-associated and particulate organic carbon fractions.
• Assessing regional soil health and fertility based on organic carbon distribution.
• Calibrating remote sensing models for soil properties using high-resolution geospatial data.
• Supporting land-use planning and climate change mitigation strategies with spatially explicit soil carbon data.

Strengths

• High spatial resolution of approximately 90 meters.
• Covers three standardized depth intervals (0-5 cm, 5-15 cm, 15-30 cm).
• Total size of about 8 GB indicates detailed continental coverage.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Freshness should be verified as the temporal coverage is approximate (1950-2022).

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Generated using Digital Soil Mapping methods.

Time Range

1950-2022

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-10 18:55:44.107962

Geography

Australia