Soil and Landscape Grid National Soil Attribute Maps - Clay 3 resolution - Release 1

## **Abstract** \n\nThis dataset and its metadata statement were supplied to the Bioregional Assessment Programme by a third party and are presented here as originally supplied.\n\n\n\nThis is Version 1 of the Australian Soil Clay product of the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia.\n\n \n\nThe 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 (http://www.globalsoilmap.net/). The digital soil attribute maps are in raster format at a resolution of 3 arc sec (approximately 90 x 90 m pixels).\n\n \n\nThese maps are generated by combining the best available Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) products available across Australia.\n\n \n\nAttribute Definition: 2 micrometre mass fraction of the less than 2 mm soil material determined using the pipette method;\n\nUnits: %;\n\nPeriod (temporal coverage; approximately): 1950-2013;\n\nSpatial resolution: 3 arc seconds (approx 90m);\n\nTotal number of gridded maps for this attribute: 18;\n\nNumber of pixels with coverage per layer: 2007M (49200 x 40800);\n\nTotal size before compression: about 8GB;\n\nTotal size after compression: about 4GB;\n\nData license : Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC By);\n\nTarget data standard: GlobalSoilMap specifications;\n\nFormat: GeoTIFF.\n\n## **Dataset History** \n\nThe National Digital Soil Property Maps are generated by combining the best available digital soil mapping to calculate a variance weighted mean for each pixel. Two DSM methods have been utilised across and in various parts of Australia, these being:\n\n \n\n 1) Decision trees with piecewise linear models with kriging of residuals developed from soil site data \n\n across Australia. (Viscarra Rossel et al., 2014a);\n\n 2) Disaggregation of existing polygon soil mapping using DSMART (Odgers et al. 2014a).\n\n \n\n Version 1 of the National Digital Soil Property Maps combines mapping from the:\n\n \n\n 1) Australia-wide three-dimensional Digital Soil Property Maps;\n\n 2) Western Australia Polygon Disaggregation Maps;\n\n 3) South Australian Agricultural Areas Polygon Disaggregation Maps;\n\n 4) Tasmanian State-wide DSM Maps.\n\n \n\n These individual mapping products are also available in the CSIRO Data Access Portal \n\n (https://data.csiro.au). Please refer to these individual products for more detail on the DSM methods \n\n used.\n\n \n\n References:\n\n Specifications: Version 1 GlobalSoilMap.net products, Release 2.1, viewed 12/09/2014, \n\n http://www.globalsoilmap.net/specifications.\n\n \n\n Bishop, TFA, McBratney, AB & Laslett, GM 1999, 'Modelling soil attribute depth functions with equal-area \n\n quadratic smoothing splines', Geoderma, vol. 91, no. 1-2, pp. 27-45. \n\n http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7061(99)00003-8.\n\n \n\n Breiman, L, Friedman, J, Stone, CJ & Olshen, RA 1984, Classification and Regression Trees, Wadsworth \n\n statistics/probability series, Wadsworth Belmont, Ca.\n\n \n\n Clifford, D, Dobbie, MJ & Searle, R 2014, 'Non-parametric imputation of properties for soil profiles with \n\n sparse observations', Geoderma, vol. 232-234, pp. 10-8. \n\n http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2014.04.026.\n\n \n\n Clifford, D, Searle, R & Holmes, KW 2015, 'Methods to merge disparate spatial estimates of soil \n\n attributes', Soil Research, in preparation.\n\n \n\n de Caritat, P & Cooper, M 2011, National Geochemical Survey of Australia: The Geochemical Atlas of \n\n Australia, Geoscience Australia, Record 2011/20 (2 Volumes), Canberra, 557 pp. \n\n http://www.ga.gov.au/metadata-gateway/metadata/record/gcat_71973.\n\n \n\n DEWRN 2014, Mapping soil and land, Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources, Government of \n\n South Australia, viewed 14/04/2014, \n\n http://www.environment.sa.gov.au/Knowledge_Bank/Information_data/soil-and-land/mapping-soil-and-land.\n\n \n\n Grunwald, S 2009, 'Multi-criteria characterization of recent digital soil mapping and modeling \n\n approaches', Geoderma, vol. 152, no. 3-4, pp. 195-207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2009.06.003.\n\n \n\n Hall, JAS, Maschmedt, DJ & Billing, NB 2009, The Soils of Southern South Australia, The South Australian \n\n Land and Soil Book Series, Volume 1; Geological Survey of South Australia, Bulletin 56, Volume 1, \n\n Department of Water, Land and Biodiversity Conservation, Government of South Australia. \n\n https://data.environment.sa.gov.au/Land/Land-Resources/Pages/Home.aspx.\n\n \n\n Holmes, KW, Griffin, TG & Odgers, NP 2015, 'Continental scale spatial disaggregation of legacy soil maps: \n\n evaluation over Western Australia', Soil Research, in preparation.\n\n \n\n Jacquier, D, Wilson, P, Griffin, T & Daniel, B 2012, Soil Information Transfer and Evaluation System \n\n (SITES) - Database design and exchange protocols, CSIRO Land and Water, Canberra. \n\n http://www.clw.csiro.au/aclep/publications/reports.htm.\n\n \n\n Kidd, D 2015, '80-metre Resolution 3D Soil Attribute Maps for Tasmania', Soil Research, in preparation.\n\n \n\n Kidd, DB, Malone, BP, McBratney, AB, Minasny, B & Webb, MA 2014, 'Digital mapping of a soil drainage index \n\n for irrigated enterprise suitability in Tasmania, Australia', Soil Research, vol. 52, no. 2, pp. 107-19. \n\n http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/sr13100.\n\n \n\n Malone, BP, Minasny, B, Odgers, NP & McBratney, AB 2014, 'Using model averaging to combine soil property \n\n rasters from legacy soil maps and from point data', Geoderma, vol. 232, pp. 34-44. \n\n http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2014.04.033.\n\n \n\n McBratney, AB, Mendonça Santos, ML & Minasny, B 2003, 'On digital soil mapping', Geoderma, vol. 117, no. \n\n 1-2, pp. 3-52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0016-7061(03)00223-4.\n\n \n\n McKenzie, NJ, Jacquier, DW, Maschmedt, DJ, Griffin, EA & Brough, DM 2012, The Australian Soil Resource \n\n Information System (ASRIS) Technical Specifications, Revised Version 1.6, June 2012, The Australian \n\n Collaborative Land Evaluation Program. \n\n http://www.asris.csiro.au/downloads/ASRIS_Tech_Specs_201.6.pdf.\n\n \n\n McKenzie, NJ & Ryan, PJ 1999, 'Spatial prediction of soil properties using environmental correlation', \n\n Geoderma, vol. 89, no. 1-2, pp. 67-94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0016-7061(98)00137-2.\n\n \n\n Odgers, NP, Holmes, KW, Griffin, T & Liddicoat, C 2015a, 'Derivation of soil attribute estimations from \n\n legacy soil maps', Soil Research, in preparation.\n\n \n\n Odgers, NP, McBratney, AB & Minasny, B 2015, 'Digital soil property mapping and uncertainty estimation \n\n using soil class probability rasters', Geoderma, vol. 237-238, pp. 190-8. \n\n http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2014.09.009.\n\n \n\n Odgers, NP, Sun, W, McBratney, AB, Minasny, B & Clifford, D 2014, 'Disaggregating and harmonising soil map \n\n units through resampled classification trees', Geoderma, vol. 214-215, pp. 91-100. \n\n http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2013.09.024.\n\n \n\n Rodríguez, E, Morris, CS & Belz, JE 2006, 'A Global Assessment of the SRTM Performance', Photogrammetric \n\n Engineering & Remote Sensing, vol. 72, no. 3, pp. 249-60.\n\n \n\n Schoknecht, N & Pathan, S 2013, Soil groups of Western Australia: a simple guide to the main soils of \n\n Western Australia, 4th ed. Resource Management Technical Report 280, Department of Agriculture and Food \n\n Western Australia, Perth. http://archive.agric.wa.gov.au/PC_95446.html.\n\n \n\n Schoknecht, N, Tille, P & Purdie, B 2004, Soil-landscape mapping in south-western Australia: an overview \n\n of methodology and outputs, Resource Management Technical Report 280, Department of Agriculture, \n\n Government of Western Australia, Perth.\n\n \n\n Searle, R 2014, 'The Australian Site Data Collation to Support Global Soil Map', paper presented to \n\n GlobalSoilMap Conference 2013, Orleans, France, 7-9 October 2013, \n\n https://publications.csiro.au/rpr.\n\n \n\n Viscarra Rossel, RA 2011, 'Fine-resolution multiscale mapping of clay minerals in Australian soils \n\n measured with near infrared spectra', Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, vol. 116, no. F4, \n\n p. F04023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2011JF001977.\n\n \n\n Viscarra Rossel, RA & Chen, C 2011, 'Digitally mapping the information content of visible-near infrared \n\n spectra of surficial Australian soils', Remote Sensing of Environment, vol. 115, no. 6, pp. 1443-55. \n\n http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2011.02.004.\n\n \n\n Viscarra Rossel, RA, Chen, C, Grundy, M, Searle, R, Clifford, D & Campbell, PH 2015a, 'The Australian \n\n three-dimensional soil grid: Australia's contribution to the GlobalSoilMap project', Soil Research, in \n\n preparation.\n\n \n\n Viscarra Rossel, RA, Chen, H & Hicks, W 2015b, 'Prediction of spatial distribution of soil attributes to \n\n depth from Australian site and covariate data', Soil Research, in preparation.\n\n \n\n Viscarra Rossel, RA & Webster, R 2012, 'Predicting soil properties from the Australian soil visible-near \n\n infrared spectroscopic database', European Journal of Soil Science, vol. 63, no. 6, pp. 848-60. \n\n http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2389.2012.01495.x.\n\n \n\n Viscarra Rossel, RA, Webster, R, Bui, EN & Baldock, JA 2014, 'Baseline map of organic carbon in Australian \n\n soil to support national carbon accounting and monitoring under climate change', Global Change Biology, \n\n vol. 20, no. 9, pp. 2953-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/gcb.12569.\n\n## **Dataset Citation** \n\nCSIRO (2014) Soil and Landscape Grid National Soil Attribute Maps - Clay 3 resolution - Release 1. Bioregional Assessment Source Dataset. Viewed 12 March 2019, http://data.bioregionalassessments.gov.au/dataset/f8640540-4bb7-42ee-995a-219881e67705.