[R-sig-Geo] Global gridded soil data (https://SoilGrids.org)

[Isaque Daniel]

Incredible job T. Hengl!!!

What data you use for South America?
There are some documentation about the generation of data?

Thanks in advance
Isaque


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Eng. Agr. Isaque Daniel Rocha Eberhardt
Mestre em Sensoriamento Remoto - Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)
Doutorando em Transportes - Universidade de Bras??lia (UNB)
Mobile: +55 (061) 99015658
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Agronomist engineer
Master in Remote Sensing - National  Institute for Space Research (INPE) - Brazil
PHD Student in Transport - Bras??lia University (UNB)


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De: R-sig-Geo <r-sig-geo-bounces at r-project.org> em nome de Tomislav Hengl <tom.hengl at gmail.com>
Enviado: terça-feira, 26 de julho de 2016 22:47
Para: r-sig-geo at r-project.org
Assunto: [R-sig-Geo] Global gridded soil data (https://SoilGrids.org)

For those of you that need soil data for your modeling / analytics,

This is to inform you that we have recently done a major update of our
SoilGrids system (https://soilgrids.org). The new predictions are now
SoilGrids | ISRIC<https://soilgrids.org/>
soilgrids.org
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available at 250 m globally for 7 standard depths (0, 5, 15, 30, 60,
100, 200 cm). We distribute predictions of standard chemical (soil pH,
organic carbon, CEC) and physical soil properties (texture fractions,
bulk density, coarse fragments, depth to bedrock) but also predictions
of soil classes (USDA and WRB classification systems). These data are
distributed under the Open Data Base License (i.e. the same license used
by OpenStreetMap).

You can download the data directly via FTP
(ftp://ftp.soilgrids.org/data/recent/) or by using the Web Coverage
Service (http://webservices.isric.org/geoserver/wcs). I wrote a short
tutorial that explains how to grab blocks of data using GDAL WCS driver
(http://gsif.isric.org/doku.php?id=wiki:tutorial_soilgrids#wcs_data_access).
Let me know if you are aware of any 'easier' way to subset and resample
SoilGrids via WCS.

SoilGrids are also available via REST API (http://rest.soilgrids.org)
hence at point locations you can fetch majority of values by using GSIF
package (http://gsif.r-forge.r-project.org/REST.SoilGrids.html). Please
try not to use this function to fetch values for large number of points
as this can become very time consuming (the average response time per
point is about 0.6 sec).

I would also like to mention that this project was fully implemented in
R / OSGeo software (which on the end worked out very smoothly even
though we had to crunch terrabytes of remote sensing data). We are
really grateful to all creators of packages we have used, especially to
the authors of the ranger, xgboost, snowfall, caret, raster and rgdal
packages and SAGA GIS and GDAL, which are the backbone of the spatial
prediction system. I could spend a lifetime thanking the package authors
for sharing their talent and creations with us.

PS: We have a separate mailing list for SoilGrids
(https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/global-soil-information) mainly
used by soil scientists / soil data experts, but if it is a generic
spatial analysis problem, then I will do my best to answer it via
R-sig-geo.

cheers,

T. Hengl

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