Soil and Landscape Grid National Soil Attribute Maps - Sand (3" resolution) - Release 2

This is Version 2 of the Australian Soil Sand Content product of the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia.

It supersedes the Release 1 product that can be found at https://doi.org/10.4225/08/546F29646877E

The map gives a modelled estimate of the spatial distribution of sand in soils across Australia.

The Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia has produced a range of digital soil attribute products. Each product contains six digital soil attribute maps, and their upper and lower confidence limits, representing the soil attribute at six depths: 0-5cm, 5-15cm, 15-30cm, 30-60cm, 60-100cm and 100-200cm. These depths are consistent with the specifications of the GlobalSoilMap.net project (https://esoil.io/TERNLandscapes/Public/Pages/SLGA/Resources/GlobalSoilMap_specifications_december_2015_2.pdf). The digital soil attribute maps are in raster format at a resolution of 3 arc sec (~90 x 90 m pixels).

Detailed information about the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia can be found at - https://esoil.io/TERNLandscapes/Public/Pages/SLGA/index.html

Attribute Definition: 20 um - 2 mm mass fraction of the < 2 mm soil material determined using the pipette method
Units: %;
Period (temporal coverage; approximately): 1950-2021;
Spatial resolution: 3 arc seconds (approx 90m);
Total number of gridded maps for this attribute: 18;
Number of pixels with coverage per layer: 2007M (49200 * 40800);
Data license : Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY);
Target data standard: GlobalSoilMap specifications;
Format: Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF;