lsrathore / generate-soil-map

The script generates soil map for any place in the world

generate-soil-map

This python script generates soil map for any place in the world.

It takes basin shapefile as an input and generate soil map using hwsd provided by FAO. More about hwsd can be found on the following link:

http://www.fao.org/soils-portal/soil-survey/soil-maps-and-databases/harmonized-world-soil-database-v12/en/

HOW TO USE:

1. It uses arcpy to generate soil map, make sure arcpy is installed.

2. Open the "soil_hwsd.py" and put the paths of required data (mentioned in the script)

3. Extract the ZIP file and provide the path of 'hwsd.bil' file from there

4. All the required files (hwsd.bi, hwsd class data, soil class) are provided with the code. Edit the path of these file in 'soil_hwsd.py' file.

WORLD SOIL MAP

A soil map of whole globe has been prepared using HWSD FAO data and uploaded in world_soil.rar file in the repo. User can download that and extract soil map for desired area.

generate-soil-map's Issues

Soil Map

Hi Dr. Rathore,

What will be spatial resolution of the output soil map? The reason why I ask this is that the DEM and Landcover file have 30 m resolution, do all these tiffs, DEM, vegetation and soil have to have the same spatial resolution?

Thank you,