Harmonized Soil Database of Ecuador (HESD): data from 2009 to 2015
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/15919
ISSN: ESSD 1866-3516
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-431-2023
ISSN: ESSD 1866-3516
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-431-2023
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2023-01-27Resumen
One of the largest challenges with soil information around the world is how to harmonize archived soil data from different sources and how to make it accessible to soil scientist. In Ecuador, there have been two major projects that have provided soil information, but the methodology of these projects, although comparable, did not coincide, especially with respect to how information was reported. Here, we present a new soil database for Ecuador, comprising 13 542 soil profiles with 51 713 measured soil horizons, including 92 different edaphic variables. The original data were in a non-editable format (i.e., PDF), which made it difficult to access and process the information. Our study provides an integrated framework that combines multiple analytic tools for automatically converting legacy soil information from an analog format into usable digital soil mapping inputs across Ecuador. This framework allowed us to incorporate quantitative information on a broad set of soil properties and r...
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Legacy soil information, Morphological properties, Analytic variables