Ecosystem services are many benefits provided by ecosystem for human beings. Soil conservation, as one of the main regulating services provided by terrestrial ecosystem, is an important guarantee to prevent regional land degradation and reduce the frequency of flood disasters. Soil conservation (SC) is often used to evaluate. As an important part of the national ecological security strategy, it is of far-reaching significance to explore the spatial and temporal distribution of soil conservation in the Qinghai Tibet plateau for the construction of ecological civilization and sustainable development in China. Based on the modified universal soil loss equation (RUSLE), the 8 km resolution soil conservation data set (1990-2015) of the Qinghai Tibet Plateau was generated using GIMMS NDVI 3gv1.0 data, aster GDEM, meteorological stations and Chinese soil data set.

File naming and required software

File name: soil conservation data is stored in TIFF format, and the name of the file is "SC"_ yyyy.tif ”Where yyyy stands for year, such as SC_ TIF represents the spatial distribution of soil conservation in the Tibetan Plateau in 1990.
Data reading mode: TIF data can be opened directly by ArcGIS.

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Wang, X. (2020). Data Set of Soil Conservation over the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau with a resolution of 8 km (1990-2015). A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, DOI: 10.11888/Soil.tpdc.271034. CSTR: 18406.11.Soil.tpdc.271034. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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1. Fu, B.J., Liu, Y., Lü, Y.H., He, C.S., Zeng, Y., & Wu, B.F. (2011). Assessing the soil erosion control service of ecosystems change in the Loess Plateau of China, 8(4), 284-293.( View Details | Bibtex)

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