Grain size distribution of soil particles dataset of the Heihe basin- A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles

The source data of this data set comes from the 1:1 million soil map of China (Shi et al., 2004) and 8595 soil sections in the second Soil Census. The polygonal connection method is used to connect the soil profile with the soil map to obtain the soil sand, silt and clay content map. The distance between the profile and the map spot, the number of soil profiles and the information of soil classification are taken into account. Please refer to related papers and web pages for specific instructions.

Data characteristics

Projection: GCS_Krasovsky_1940

Coverage: Heihe River Basin

Resolution: 0.00833 degrees (about one kilometer)

Data format: FLT, tiff

Value range: 0% - 100%

Document description

Floating point grid files include:

Sand1.flt, clay1.flt - content of sand and clay in the surface layer (0-30cm).

Sand2.flt, clay2.flt - sand and clay content in the bottom layer (30-100cm).

Psd.hdr – header file:

Ncols - number of columns

Nrows - number of rows

Xllcorner - lower left latitude

Yllcorner - lower left longitude

Cellsize - cell size

NoData_Value – null

byteorder - LSBFIRST, Least Significant Bit First

TIFF grid files include:

Sand 1.tif, clay 1.tif - the content of sand and clay in the surface layer (0-30cm).

Sand 2.tif, clay 2.tif - sand and clay content in the bottom layer (30-100cm).

For data details, please refer to: http://globalchange.bnu.edu.cn/research/soil

File naming and required software

FLT, TIFF format storage

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Cite as:

Shangguan, W., Dai, Y. (2013). Grain size distribution of soil particles dataset of the Heihe basin. A Big Earth Data Platform for Three Poles, DOI: 10.11888/Soil.tpdc.270589. CSTR: 18406.11.Soil.tpdc.270589. (Download the reference： RIS | Bibtex )

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References literature

1.FAO, IIASA, ISRIC, ISS-CAS, JRC, (2009). Harmonized World Soil Database (version1.1). FAO, Rome, Italy and IIASA, Laxenburg, Austia. (View Details )

2.Reynolds, C. A., Jackson, T. J., Rawls, W. J., (2000). Estimating soil water-holding capacities by linking the Food Agriculture Organization soil map of the world with global pedon databases, continuous pedotransfer functions. Water Resour. Res. 36, 3653-3662. (View Details )

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