| Title
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Major Soils for Africa - FAO 1:5 Million Scale Soils Derived |
| Date
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11-04-2006 |
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Creation: Date identifies when the resource was brought into existence
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| Edition
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First |
| Presentation form
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Digital map: Map represented in raster or vector form
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| Abstract
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Compilation of FAO Soil great group and major attribute characteristics with country boundaries removed. The SOILS_PY shapefile
data layer is comprised of 4909 derivative vector soils features derived based on 1:5 000 000 data originally from FAO.
Acronyms and Abbreviations:
FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization in the United Nations.
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| Purpose
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Major soil great groups and characteristics for continent. |
| Status
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Completed: Production of the data has been completed
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| Maintenance and update frequency
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As needed: Data is updated as deemed necessary
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| Descriptive keywords
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soils , African Water Resource Database , AWRD , ancillary vector (theme). |
| Descriptive keywords
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Africa (place). |
| Access constraints
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Copyright: Exclusive right to the publication, production, or sale of the rights to a
literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work, or to the use of a commercial print or
label, granted by law for a specified period of time to an author, composer, artist,
distributor
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| Use constraints
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Copyright: Exclusive right to the publication, production, or sale of the rights to a
literary, dramatic, musical, or artistic work, or to the use of a commercial print or
label, granted by law for a specified period of time to an author, composer, artist,
distributor
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| Spatial representation type
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Vector: Vector data is used to represent geographic data
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| Language
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English |
| Character set
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UTF8: 8-bit variable size UCS Transfer Format, based on ISO/IEC 10646
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| Topic category code
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Environment |
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| Supplemental Information
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This map is part of two publications entitled:
"Jenness, J.; Dooley, J.; Aguilar-Manjarrez, J.; Riva, C. African Water Resource Database. GIS-based tools for inland aquatic
resource management. 1. Concepts and application case studies CIFA Technical Paper. No.33, Part 1. Rome, FAO. 2007. 167p.
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"Jenness, J.; Dooley, J.; Aguilar-Manjarrez, J.; Riva, C. African Water Resource Database. GIS-based tools for inland aquatic
resource management. 2. Technical manual and workbook. CIFA Technical Paper. No. 33, Part 2. Rome, FAO. 2007. 308 p."
The primary AWRD interface, tool-sets and data integral to the function of the AWRD are distributed in two DVD's accompanying
CIFA No. 33, Part 2, and are also available for download from FAO's GeoNetwork and GISFish GIS portals.
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