Soil Datasets

by Nicolas Saby · September 9, 2008

Spatial data

Broom’s barn dataset. Note (pdf), data (txt)
Gilgai transect data. From the paper: Webster, R. (1977) Spectral analysis of gilgai soil. Australian Journal of Soil Research 15, 191-204. xls
Thickness of soil A horizon from a field near Forbes, New South Wales. From the paper: Pettitt, A.N., McBratney, A.B., 1993. Sampling designs for estimating spatial variance components. Applied Statistics 42, 185–209. xls
Soil pH of 1 ha area at a research station in Samford, Queensland. From the paper: Laslett, G.M., McBratney, A.B., Pahl, P.J., Hutchinson, M.F., 1987. Comparison of several spatial prediction methods for soil pH. Journal of Soil Science 38, 325–341. xls
The Jura dataset. Appendix C in: Goovaerts, P., 1997, Geostatistics for natural resources evaluation, Oxford University Press. txt More info see Pierre Goovaerts’ webpage
The Meuse soil contamination dataset. Burrough, P. A. & McDonnell, R. A., 1998. Principles of geographical information systems. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Provided by David Rositter. zip
The Ebergotzen dataset (Tomi Hengl) zip
See also AI-Geostats Datasets

Time Series

Forbes soil temperature data, from Forbes, J.D., 1846. Account of experiments on the temperature of the earth at different depths, and in different soils, near Edinburgh. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 16, 189-236. Temperature in Fahrenheit xls in Celsius xls

Infrared spectra