698111c6-2930-4e82-884e-7abb44aa892f urn:uuid eng UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2025-08-01T04:36:57 creation ISO 19115 2016 Soil and Landscape Grid National Soil Attribute Maps - Soil Colour (3" resolution) - Release 1 698111c6-2930-4e82-884e-7abb44aa892f We used Digital Soil Mapping (DSM) technologies combined with collations of observed soil colour data from TERN's Soil Data Federation System, to produce surface and subsoil maps of soil colour at a 90&nbsp;m resolution. The map gives an estimate of the spatial distribution of RGB soil colour across Australia. Detailed information about the Soil and Landscape Grid of Australia can be found at - <a href="https://esoil.io/TERNLandscapes/Public/Pages/SLGA/index.html">SLGA</a>. <ul> <li>Period (temporal coverage; approximately): 1950-2020;</li> <li>Spatial resolution: 3 arc seconds (approx 90&nbsp;m);</li> <li>Number of pixels with coverage per layer: 2007M (49200 * 40800);</li> <li>Data license : Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY);</li> <li>Target data standard: GlobalSoilMap specifications;</li> <li>Format: Cloud Optimised GeoTIFF;</li></ul> {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[112.999583333, -44.000416667], [153.999583334, -44.000416667], [153.999583334, -10.000416666], [112.999583333, -10.000416666], [112.999583333, -44.000416667]]]} 112.999583333 153.999583334 -44.000416667 -10.000416666 Australian Soil Colour DSM Digital Soil Mapping Global Soil Map Raster SLGA Soil Soil Maps Spatial modelling Methods Summary - Soil-Colour documentDigital Method documentation HTML R Core Team (2020). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. documentDigital Method documentation HTML Robertson, A. R., The CIE 1976 color-difference formulae, Color Research and Application, 1977, 2: 7–11. documentDigital Method documentation HTML Viscarra Rossel, R. A., Behrens, T., Ben-Dor, E., Brown, D. J., Demattê, J. A. M., Shepherd, K. D., Shi, Z., Stenberg, B., Stevens, A., Adamchuk, V., Aïchi, H., Barthès, B. G., Bartholomeus, H. M., Bayer, A. D., Bernoux, M., Böttcher, K., Brodský, L., Du, C. W., Chappell, A., … Ji, W. (2016). A global spectral library to characterize the world’s soil. Earth-Science Reviews, 155, 198–230. documentDigital Method documentation HTML Cloud Optimised GeoTIFFs - Soil Colour documentDigital HTML Methods Summary - Soil-Colour documentDigital Method documentation HTML R Core Team (2020). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. documentDigital Method documentation HTML Robertson, A. R., The CIE 1976 color-difference formulae, Color Research and Application, 1977, 2: 7–11. documentDigital Method documentation HTML Viscarra Rossel, R. A., Behrens, T., Ben-Dor, E., Brown, D. J., Demattê, J. A. M., Shepherd, K. D., Shi, Z., Stenberg, B., Stevens, A., Adamchuk, V., Aïchi, H., Barthès, B. G., Bartholomeus, H. M., Bayer, A. D., Bernoux, M., Böttcher, K., Brodský, L., Du, C. W., Chappell, A., … Ji, W. (2016). A global spectral library to characterize the world’s soil. Earth-Science Reviews, 155, 198–230. documentDigital Method documentation HTML slga_soilcolour documentDigital National Soil Attribute Maps - Soil Colour WMS Methods Summary - Soil-Colour documentDigital Method documentation HTML R Core Team (2020). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. documentDigital Method documentation HTML Robertson, A. R., The CIE 1976 color-difference formulae, Color Research and Application, 1977, 2: 7–11. documentDigital Method documentation HTML Viscarra Rossel, R. A., Behrens, T., Ben-Dor, E., Brown, D. J., Demattê, J. A. M., Shepherd, K. D., Shi, Z., Stenberg, B., Stevens, A., Adamchuk, V., Aïchi, H., Barthès, B. G., Bartholomeus, H. M., Bayer, A. D., Bernoux, M., Böttcher, K., Brodský, L., Du, C. W., Chappell, A., … Ji, W. (2016). A global spectral library to characterize the world’s soil. Earth-Science Reviews, 155, 198–230. documentDigital Method documentation HTML Landscape Data Visualiser - Soil Colour documentDigital HTML Methods Summary - Soil-Colour documentDigital Method documentation HTML R Core Team (2020). R: A language and environment for statistical computing. R Foundation for Statistical Computing, Vienna, Austria. documentDigital Method documentation HTML Robertson, A. R., The CIE 1976 color-difference formulae, Color Research and Application, 1977, 2: 7–11. documentDigital Method documentation HTML Viscarra Rossel, R. A., Behrens, T., Ben-Dor, E., Brown, D. J., Demattê, J. A. M., Shepherd, K. D., Shi, Z., Stenberg, B., Stevens, A., Adamchuk, V., Aïchi, H., Barthès, B. G., Bartholomeus, H. M., Bayer, A. D., Bernoux, M., Böttcher, K., Brodský, L., Du, C. W., Chappell, A., … Ji, W. (2016). A global spectral library to characterize the world’s soil. Earth-Science Reviews, 155, 198–230. documentDigital Method documentation HTML ro-crate-metadata.json documentDigital HTML Soil Colour documentDigital PNG Unnamed resource documentDigital PNG