Soils
Harmonized World Soil Database v2.0
FAO and IIASA. 1 km soil map with attributes for seven depth layers.
Soil mapping units combining regional and national soil maps, each with a composition of soil types and their properties for seven depth layers down to 2 m. The soil input used by SWAT and many crop models.
- Source
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
- Resolution
- 30 arc-seconds (about 1 km)
- Data type
- Raster and database
- Time span
- Static (2023)
- Temporal
- Static
- Access type
- Direct download (external)
- Formats
- Raster with Access and SQLite databases
- Coverage
- Global land (-180, -90, 180, 90)
- Licence
- See FAO terms of use
- Provider page
- www.fao.org/soils-portal/data-hub/soil-maps-and-databases/h…
Access
linkHWSD v2.0 download page
curl "https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/hwsd-v2/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5" \
-H "Accept: application/json"
import requests
r = requests.get("https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/hwsd-v2/links",
params={"bbox": "-75,-20,-50,5"})
for group in r.json()["groups"]:
for link in group["links"]:
print(link["url"])
const res = await fetch("https://hydrological.org/api/v1/datasets/hwsd-v2/links?bbox=-75,-20,-50,5");
const { groups } = await res.json();
for (const g of groups) g.links.forEach(l => console.log(l.url));
Also available as JSON: links · manifest · dataset record