| Note |
"The Harmonized World Soil Database is a 30 arc-second raster database with over 15 000 different soil mapping units that combines existing regional and national updates of soil information worldwide: Soil and Terrain (SOTER), European Soil Database (ESD), Soil Map of China, Water Information System in Europe (WISE); with the information contained within the 1:5000000 scale Food and Agriculture Organization - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (FAO-UNESCO) Soil Map of the World.
The resulting raster database consists of 21600 rows and 43200 columns, which are linked to harmonized soil property data. The use of a standardized structure allows for the linkage of the attribute data with the raster map to display or query the composition in terms of soil units and the characterization of selected soil parameters (organic Carbon, pH, water storage capacity, soil depth, cation exchange capacity of the soil and the clay fraction, total exchangeable nutrients, lime and gypsum contents, sodium exchange percentage, salinity, textural class and granulometry)." |