FGARA Digital Soil Mapping Output - Electrical Conductivity of Soil Surface

Electrical conductivity of soil surface is one of 19 attributes of soils chosen to underpin the land suitability assessment of the Flinders and Gilbert Agricultural Resource Assessment (FGARA) project through the digital soil mapping process (DSM). This raster data (in GeoTIFF format) represents a modelled surface of electrical conductivity of the soil surface (<0.10m) measured in 0.00 dS/m (decisiemens per meter) and is derived from measured site data and environmental covariates. The data is used in assessment of salinity and effects soil water holding capacity.
The attribute data file name is "ECPredictions.tif".
Also included are data reflecting confidence of the main dataset. These file names follow the convention "EC_SD.tif". "SD" represents “standard deviation”.
The DSM process is described in the technical report: Bartley R, Thomas MF, Clifford D, Phillip S, Brough D, Harms D, Willis R, Gregory L, Glover M, Moodie K, Sugars M, Eyre L, Smith DJ, Hicks W and Petheram C (2013) Land suitability: technical methods. A technical report to the Australian Government for the Flinders and Gilbert Agricultural Resource Assessment (FGARA) project, CSIRO.
This raster data provides improved soil information to identify opportunities and promote detailed investigation for a range of sustainable development options and was created within the “Land Suitability” component of FGARA projects.