Global Soil Organic Carbon Content at Six Depths, 250m Resolution

Soil organic carbon content maps at 250-meter spatial resolution for six standard depths from 0 to 200 centimeters. The data is predicted from a global compilation of soil points and covers the period from 1950 to 2017, excluding Antarctica. Tomislav Hengl is listed as the author, and the dataset is hosted on the LandGIS platform.

Use Cases

• Modeling global soil carbon stocks based on depth-specific organic carbon content.
• Assessing soil health and fertility for agricultural planning based on organic carbon maps.
• Integrating soil data into climate models for carbon cycle analysis based on the 1950-2017 temporal coverage.
• Creating regional land management strategies based on high-resolution (250m) spatial data.

Strengths

• Provides data for six standardized soil depths (0, 10, 30, 60, 100, 200 cm).
• Offers a high spatial resolution of 250 meters.
• Covers a long temporal period from 1950 to 2017.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Antarctica is explicitly excluded from the spatial coverage.

Provenance

Source

Tomislav Hengl; LandGIS platform (https://landgis.opengeohub.org).

Collection Method

Predicted from a global compilation of soil points.

Time Range

1950-2017

Freshness

Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Geography

Global, excluding Antarctica.