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Northcote, K.H.
Abstract
The Digital Atlas of Australian Soils (the 'Digital Atlas') is a digital version of the set of ten maps, compiled by K H Northcote et al. and published in 1960 - 68 by CSIRO and Melbourne University Press in Melbourne, known as the 'Atlas of Australian Soils, Sheets 1 to 10, with explanatory data'. This dataset was produced by NRIC in 1991.
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dataset
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36244
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Cnr Jerrabomberra Ave and Hindmarsh Dr GPO Box 378
Canberra
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- GIS DatasetNational
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- GIS
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- regolith
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- AU
- Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC)
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- Earth Sciences
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- Published_Internal
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1991-01-01T00:00:00
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The Digital Atlas was created by the National Resource Information Centre (NRIC), now Advanced Research and Development Centres (ARDC)* in 1991 from scanned tracings of the published hardcopy maps. The use of the hardcopies was necessary, as the original printer's separates could not be located. This introduced a source of error due to paper stretch and errors due to drafting accuracy but extensive cross-checking, editing and error tracking were performed to limit the effects of these errors.The digital maps derived from the separate hard copy maps constituting the Atlas of Australian Soils were merged to form a single, topologically structured, Australia-wide polygon coverage. Attribution (map labelling) inconsistencies were remedied, for example, where upper and lower case characters or l's and 1's had been confused. Further to download from the BRS website the separate lookup tables; csiro2mg.lut (interpretations of soil properties for the dominant soil of each landscape), manage.lut (soil properties that affect land management), landu.lut (typical landuse) and a1org.lut (interpreted A1 horizon organic content) were combined with the data and fully expanded upon. A futher classification attribute DOM_SOIL was also added based upon the Northcote sub-division level for the dominant soil type of each soil landscape based upon the BRS example map. The dominant soil type complies with the soil classification system described by K H Northcote in the various editions of his 'A Factual Key for the Recognition of Australian Soils' (The 4th edition of which was published by Rellim in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1979). The dataset was reprojected based upon the assumption that the original data had an AUSTRALIANATIONAL spheroid and AUG datum although the data itself specified a CLARKE1866 spheroid.
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[-44.0, -10.0, 112.0, 154.0]
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