Major soil groups of the world (FGGD)
The FGGD soils map is a global raster datalayer with a resolution of 5 arc-minutes. Each pixel contains a class value for the major soil group found in the pixel area. The data are from FAO and IIASA, 2000, Global agro-ecological zones, as reported in FAO and IIASA, 2007, Mapping biophysical factors that influence agricultural production and rural vulnerability, by H. von Velthuizen et al.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2007-08-23
- Edition
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1.0
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Purpose
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The FGGD Digital Atlas consists of more than 100 global database that allows to analyse food insecurity and poverty in relation to the environment.
- Status
- Completed
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- Theme
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soil
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- Place
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World
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- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- Copyright
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Metadata language
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
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- Supplemental Information
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This dataset is contained in Module 4 "Environmental conditions" of Food Insecurity, Poverty and Environment Global GIS Database (FGGD) (FAO, 2007).
- Reference system identifier
- GCS_WGS_1984
- Number of dimensions
- 2
- Dimension name
- Row
- Dimension size
- 2160
- Resolution
- 0.08333333 ,
- Dimension name
- Column
- Dimension size
- 4320
- Resolution
- 0.08333333 ,
- Cell geometry
- Area
- Transformation parameter availability
- No
- Distribution format
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TIFF
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TIFF
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- OnLine resource
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Map4_5.zip
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WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
Major soil groups of the world - Grid format (1.25 MB)
- OnLine resource
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geonetwork:major_soil_14129
(
OGC:WMS-1.1.1-http-get-map
)
Major soil groups of the world (FGGD)
- OnLine resource
- Mapping biophysical factors that influence agricultural production and rural vulnerability ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
- OnLine resource
- Global Agro-Ecological Zones (GAEZ) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Data quality info
- File identifier
- 6fd05da0-853c-11db-b9b2-000d939bc5d8 XML
- Metadata language
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eng
- Character set
- UTF8
- Date stamp
- 2023-02-03T09:00:54
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
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1.0
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