https:\/\/www.soilgrids.org<\/a>), a project of ISRIC-World Soil Information (ISRIC 2016). The project combines worldwide and national data from diff erent organizations and displays them in an interactive map. The maps are spatial predictions of soil types and properties based on machine learning and global statistical models. Data for some of the maps below were obtained from SoilGrids.<\/p>\nThe Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD) is another source for soil information. The HWSD is the result of a collaboration between the FAO and other organizations. This raster database contains data of selected soil characteristics (e.g. organic carbon, pH, water storage capacity, soil depth, cation exchange capacity) from over 15000 soil mapping units. The Database is available for download, along with an application to view the data, from the FAO website.<\/p>\n
Soil data and maps based on other soil classifi cations are also available for MSEA. Several countries have used, and still use, the USDA Soil Taxonomy for their soil surveys. The USDA Soil Taxonomy classifi es soils according to several parameters (most commonly their properties) and in several levels: Order, Suborder, Great Group, Subgroup, Family, and Series. USDA and WRB are comparable to some extent, and soil maps and data using the USDA Soil Taxonomy (and other less common, sometimes only descriptive soil classifi cations) are available at the national level. Even though some of these data have a higher resolution and provide more detailed information, summarizing and comparing these data within MSEA is challenging, because diff erent classifications are used and the raw data is difficult to obtain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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Soils of Mainland Southeast Asia by Peter Elstner, Warm Heart Foundation, Chiang Mai, Thailand [ We have been looking for a reference guide to the soils of Southeast Asia for some time, and in the past have had to rely upon the fragmented soil classifications provided by most Southeast Asian countries. Those guides tended to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5hbwr-pb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permacultureinstitutethailand.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permacultureinstitutethailand.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permacultureinstitutethailand.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permacultureinstitutethailand.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permacultureinstitutethailand.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1561"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.permacultureinstitutethailand.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/www.permacultureinstitutethailand.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1561\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permacultureinstitutethailand.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}