Kenya Soils (GIS Coverage from UNEP/GRID Nairobi)

New-ID: NBI89

SOIL MAP OF KENYA.

Produced by the Republic of Kenya, Kenya Soil Survey in the Ministry
of Agriculture Nairobi. Agro-climatic classification and map
preparation was done by H. M. H. Braun and other staff of the Kenya
soil survey. Cartography and lithography was done by the Soil Survey
Insitute Wageningen, The Netherlands.

There are three items in the info table which are of importance namely
TYPE1, TYPE2 and SOIL. TYPE1 and TYPE2 are an alpha-numeric code
which represent the soil type in the item SOIL. This code was given
in order to facilitate manipulation and calculations of the info
tables, which is more easily done using integers rather than using
character strings. TYPE1 is the first part of the character string in
the item SOIL and TYPE2 is the second part of the character string in
the item SOIL, as seen in the info table below in SOIL# 19.
For details on the actual soil types and associated information see the
documentation "Exploratory Soil Map and Agro-climatic Zone Map of Kenya, 1980.

MAP TITLE

Exploratory Soil Map and Agro-climatic Zone Map of Kenya, 1980.

Arc/info table

AREA PERIMETER SOIL# SOIL-ID TYPE1 TYPE2 SOIL
-47.552 39.567 1 0 0 0 ''
0.068 3.258 2 9009 479 0 ' H9'
0.013 0.634 3 9010 645 0 ' Y5'
0.000 0.053 4 9011 60937 0 ' Ux7'
0.001 0.132 5 9012 403 0 ' A3'
0.002 0.284 6 9013 645 0 ' Y5'
0.009 0.524 7 9014 60937 0 ' Ux7'
0.001 0.150 8 9015 479 0 ' H9'
0.009 0.602 9 9016 516 0 ' L6'
0.052 1.562 10 9017 645 0 ' Y5'
0.022 0.975 11 9018 558821 0 ' Ps21'
0.127 2.573 12 9019 558821 0 ' Ps21'
0.000 0.085 13 9020 479 0 ' H9'
0.073 4.595 14 9021 403 0 ' A3'
0.238 5.943 15 9022 60937 0 ' Ux7'
0.002 0.231 16 9023 458 0 ' F8'
0.142 3.913 17 9024 408 0 ' A8'
0.004 0.263 18 9025 479 0 ' H9'
0.004 0.249 19 9026 431 55813 ' D1 + Pl3'
0.018 0.855 20 9027 408 0 ' A8'
0.044 1.360 21 9028 479 0 ' H9'