• Stars4Water
  •   Search
  •   Map
  •   Sign in

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

1.0

Presentation form
Digital map
Purpose

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
Point of contact
  FAO - GIS UNIT - ( GIS Manager )
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla, 1 , Rome , 00153 , Italy
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Theme
  • soil

Place
  • World

Access constraints
Copyright
Use constraints
Copyright
Spatial representation type
Grid
Metadata language

eng

Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
N
S
E
W
thumbnail


Supplemental Information

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
  • TIFF ( )

OnLine resource
Map4_5.zip ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download )

Major soil groups of the world - Grid format (1.25 MB)

OnLine resource
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

No information provided.
File identifier
6fd05da0-853c-11db-b9b2-000d939bc5d8 XML
Metadata language

eng

Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2023-02-03T09:00:54
Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Point of contact
  FAO - GIS UNIT - Mirella Salvatore ( Consultant )
Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 1 , Rome , 00153 , Italy
 
 

Overviews

overview
thumbnail
overview
large_thumbnail

Spatial extent

N
S
E
W
thumbnail


Keywords

soil

Provided by

logo

Share on social sites

Access to the portal
Read here the full details and access to the data.

Associated resources

Not available


  •   About
  •   Github
  •