soilmap_simple: a simplified and standardized derivative of the digital soil map of the Flemish Region
DOI10.5281/zenodo.3747496Zenodo3747496MaRDI QIDQ6717950FDOQ6717950
Dataset published at Zenodo repository.
Floris Vanderhaeghe, Nathalie Cools, Bruno de Vos
Publication date: 10 April 2020
Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
The data source soilmap_simple is a simplified and standardized derived form of the digital soil map of the Flemish Region (the shapefile of which we named soilmap, for analytical workflows in R) published by Databank Ondergrond Vlaanderen (DOV). It is a GeoPackage that contains aspatial polygon layer soilmap_simple in the Belgian Lambert 72 coordinate reference system (EPSG-code 31370), plus a non-spatial table explanations with the meaningof category codes that occur inthe spatial layer. Further documentation about the digital soil map of the Flemish Region is available in Van Ranst Sys (2000) and Dudal et al. (2005). This version of soilmap_simple was derived from version soilmap_2017-06-20 (Zenodo DOI) as follows: all attribute variables received English names (purpose of standardization), starting with prefix bsm_ (referring to the Belgian soil map); attribute variables were reordered; the values of the morphogenetic substrate, texture and drainage variables (bsm_mo_substr, bsm_mo_tex and bsm_mo_drain + their _explan counterparts) were filled for mostfeatures in the coastal plain area. To derive morphogenetic texture and drainage levels from the geomorphological soil types, a conversion table by Bruno De Vos Carole Ampe was applied (for earlier work on this, see Ampe 2013). Substrate classes were copied over from bsm_ge_substr into bsm_mo_substr (bsm_ge_substr already followed the categories of bsm_mo_substr). These steps coincide with the approach that had been taken to construct the Unitype variable in the soilmap data source; only a minimal number of variables were selected: those that are most useful for analytical work. See R-code in the GitHub repository n2khab-preprocessing at commit b3c6696 for the creation from the soilmap data source. A reading function to return soilmap_simple (this data source) or soilmap in a standardized way into the R environment is provided by the R-package n2khab. The attributes of the spatial polygon layersoilmap_simple can have mo_ in their name to referto the Belgian Morphogenetic System: bsm_poly_id: unique polygon ID (numeric) bsm_region: name of the region bsm_converted: boolean.Were morphogenetic texture and drainage variables (bsm_mo_texandbsm_mo_drain) derived from a conversion table (see above)? ValueTRUEis largely confined to the coastal plain areas. bsm_mo_soilunitype: code of the soil type (applying morphogenetic codes within the coastal plain areas when possible, just as for the following three variables) bsm_mo_substr: code of the soil substrate bsm_mo_tex: code of the soil texture category bsm_mo_drain: code of the soil drainage category bsm_mo_prof: code of the soil profile category bsm_mo_parentmat: code of a variant regarding the parent material bsm_mo_profvar: code of a variant regarding the soil profile The non-spatial tableexplanationshas following variables: subject:attribute name of the spatial layer: either bsm_mo_substr, bsm_mo_tex, bsm_mo_drain, bsm_mo_prof, bsm_mo_parentmatorbsm_mo_profvar code: category code that occurs as value for the corresponding attribute in the spatial layer name: explanation of the value ofcode
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