Soil Dataset for the Jazira Region of Syria
| Depositor | dc.contributor | Mathys, Tony |
| Institution | dc.contributor.other | University of Edinburgh |
| Spatial Coverage | dc.coverage.spatial | northlimit=37.3251;eastlimit=42.3788;southlimit=34.4146;westlimit=38.04; |
| Dataset Date | dc.coverage.temporal | 2008-12-03 |
| Date Accessioned | dc.date.accessioned | 2010-06-30T14:27:10Z |
| Date Available | dc.date.available | 2010-06-30T14:27:10Z |
| Date Issued | dc.date.issued | 2010-06-30 |
| Data Set | dc.identifier | http://www.sharegeo.ac.uk/bitstream/handle/10672/12/JaziraSoils.zip?sequence=1 |
| Permanent Identifier | dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10672/12 |
| Lineage | dc.description | Derived from 1:500,000 Map in Mohammed Ilaiwa's thesis 'Contribution to the Knowledge of the Soils of Syria'. Additional information taken from W.J. van Liere: 'Syria - Classification and rational utilization of soils - Report to the government, Soil Survey of the Jezireh.' Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO), 1965Soil map was copied to mylar and scanned to create a polygon coverage of the soil classes; included with this dataset is land-use attribute information. Each polygon was labeled and attributed with soil and land-use pattern values. |
| Abstract | dc.description.abstract | Soil dataset is attributed with soil type, secondary soil type and soil code variables. Additional attributes include land use type, other land uses and tertiary land use activities. |
| Format | dc.format | ESRI Shapefile |
| Language | dc.language.iso | en |
| Dataset Licencing | dc.rights.uri | This data is made available under the Public Domain Dedication and License v1.0 whose full text can be found at http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/pddl/1.0/ |
| Subject | dc.subject | Syria |
| Subject | dc.subject | soil |
| Subject | dc.subject | Jazira |
| Additional Keyword | dc.subject.classification | Farming |
| Additional Keyword | dc.subject.classification | Biota |
| Additional Keyword | dc.subject.classification | Environment |
| Title | dc.title | Soil Dataset for the Jazira Region of Syria |
| Type | dc.type | GIS vector data |
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