Africa soil profiles database: A compilation of georeferenced and standardised legacy soil profile data for sub-saharan Africa

GlobalSoilMap: Basis of the Global Spatial Soil Information System - Proceedings of the 1st GlobalSoilMap Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 51-57

  Leenaars, J G B ^a   Kempen, B ^a   Van Oostrum, A J M ^a   Batjes, N H ^a  

^a ISRIC WORLD SOIL INFORMATION   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOREFERENCING; LAND-USE SYSTEMS; MODEL FOLLOWING; OBSERVATIONS AND MEASUREMENTS; PEDO-TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; POSITIONAL ACCURACY; QUALITY OF DATA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

DATABASE SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INFORMATION SERVICES; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

SOILS;

EID: 84893676163     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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