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CONTENT
This data repository contains GIS raster layers of various biophysical earth surface properties for each territory in the world.
These layers can for example be used as covariates in a digital soil mapping exercise.

The territories and their boundaries are obtained from from the Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL) dataset: 
http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/srv/en/metadata.show?id=12691

Each folder contains three subfolders
* covs: GIS layers of various biophysical earth surface properties
* mask: an 'empty'  grid file of the territory with territory boundary according to GAUL. This grid can for instance be used as a mapping mask.
* soilgrids: all SoilGrids250m soil class and property layers as available through www.soilgrids.org. Layers are aggregated to 1 km.

DATA SPECIFIATIONS
File format: GeoTiff
Coordinate system: WGS84, latitude-longitude in decimal degrees
Spatial resolution: 1km 

ACCESS
ftp://gsp.isric2.org/ (user: gsp, pwd: gspisric)
ftp://85.214.253.67/ (user: gsp, pwd: gspisric)

LICENCE and ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The GIS layers can be freely used under the condition that proper credit should be given to the original data source in each publication or product derived from these layers. 
Licences, data sources, data citations are indicated the data description table.


ISRIC - World Soil Information
13 March 2017