Senegal FAO Soil Types (UNEP/GRID/WHO/CISFAM)

New-ID: NBI156 The Soils Types of Senegal Dataset Documentation File: SENEGAL2.IMG Code: 146003-001 Raster Member IMG files are in IDRISI format Originally digitized from the UNESCO/FAO Soil Map of the world (1977) for the UNEP/FAO/ESRI Database for Africa by ESRI, USA, GRID-Geneva rasterized the Soil Types dataset of Senegal for UNEP/GRID/WHO/CISFAM Senegal Database with a cell size of 30 seconds and two minutes lat/lon (approximately one- and four kilometeter-square pixels, respectively). The Soil Types dataset of Senegal has 16 classes and water. Contact: UNEP/GRID-Nairobi, P.O. Box 30552 Nairobi, Kenya FAO, Soil Resources, Management and Conservation Service, 00100, Rome, Italy The SENEGAL2 file shows FAO soil types of Senegal. REMARK: file extracted from continental scale, hence may have limited applicability at national scale. References: ESRI. Final Report UNEP/FAO world and Africa GIS data base (1984). Internal Publication by ESRI, FAO and UNEP FAO. UNESCO Soil Map of the World (1974). Scale 1:5000000. UNESCO, Paris CISFAM. Consolidated Information System for Famine Management in Africa, Phase I Report (Apr. 1987), Univ. of Louvain, Brussels, Belgium. Source : UNESCO/FAO Soil Map of the World, scale 1:5000000 Publication Date : Dec 1988 Projection : lat/lon Type : Raster Format : IDRISI Related Datasets : All UNEP/FAO/ESRI Datasets, especially FAO SOILS (100085), ELEV2 (100070) elevation zones