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Soils4Africa - Field data from a continental soil survey campaign

Year: 2026
Type: dataset
Abstract: The EU-funded Soils4Africa project's aimed to provide an open-access soil information system with a set of key indicators and underpinning data, accompanied by a methodology for repeated soil monitoring across the African continent. This release contains the field data which has been collected by a large number of field surveyors from over 15,000 locations across 33 countries in Africa, through a mobile application. Description of the sampling locations largely followed FAO's Guidelines for Soil Description. The 's4a_field_data' file contains the data. The 'tableschema' file has description of the columns, following the tableschema conventions. Read more about the project at <https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/862900/results> IMPORTANT: quality control of the data is still ongoing. Updates and new versions of the dataset are expected in the future.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.17699296
Authors: Mesele, Samuel, Huising, Jeroen, Csorba, Adam, Ouessar, Mohamed, KATAR, Achraf, Okoti, Michael, Waruru, Bernard, Rozanov, Andrei, Yameogo, Poulouma Louis, TRAORE, MAMADOU, Steverink-Mosugu, Mary, Micheli, Erika, Kempen, Bas
Institutions: International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Magyar Agrár- és Élettudományi Egyetem, Institut des Régions Arides, Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization, Stellenbosch University, Institut de l'Environnement et Recherches Agricoles, ISRIC - World Soil Information
Language: English
Subfield: Soil Science
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7166323574
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