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Soil properties dataset in the United States

Dates

Acquisition
2020-06
Creation
2020-07
Publication Date

Citation

Boiko, O., Kagone S., Senay G.B., 2021, Soil properties dataset in the United States: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P9TI3IS8.

Summary

The dataset consists of three raster GeoTIFF files describing the following soil properties in the US: available water capacity, field capacity, and soil porosity. The input data were obtained from the gridded National Soil Survey Geographic (gNATSGO) Database and the Gridded Soil Survey Geographic (gSSURGO) Database with Soil Data Development tools provided by the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The soil characteristics derived from the databases were Available Water Capacity (AWC), Water Content (one-third bar) (WC), and Bulk Density (one-third bar) (BD) aggregated as weighted average values in the upper 1 m of soil. AWC and WC layers were converted to mm/m to express respectively available water capacity and field capacity [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Gabriel Senay
Originator :
Gabriel Senay, Stefanie Kagone, Olena Boiko
Metadata Contact :
Olena Boiko
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Data Owner :
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center
USGS Mission Area :
Core Science Systems

Attached Files

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soil_properties_metadata.xml
“summary metadata”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		13.48 KB application/fgdc+xml
awc_gNATSGO.zip
“Soil Available Water Capacity” 		307.3 MB application/zip
fc_gNATSGO.zip
“Soil Field Capacity” 		387.02 MB application/zip
por_gNATSGO.zip
“Soil Porosity” 		382.47 MB application/zip

Purpose

This soil dataset can be used in a variety of applications for hydrologic research. We use these data to model Evapotranspiration (ET) with Vegetation ET model that integrates water balance algorithms with remotely sensed phenology data.

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  • Earth Resources Observation and Science Center (EROS)
  • USGS Data Release Products

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DOI https://www.sciencebase.gov/vocab/category/item/identifier doi:10.5066/P9TI3IS8

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