Soil and Land Information System (SALInfo)

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Metadata
Citation
Description

Dataset Status
Data Quality
Contact Information
Data Dictionary
Supplementary Information

Metadata Details:

Name:AS/NZS ISO 19115 Geographic Information - Metadata, ANZLIC Metadata Profile

Version:1.0

Date Metadata Extracted:2024-12-22

Date Metadata Last Updated:2024-11-13

Current URL (HTML format) : http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=html&metadata_id=2DBCB771214A06B6E040CD9B0F274EFE

Current URL (XML format) : http://www.ntlis.nt.gov.au/metadata/export_data?type=xml&metadata_id=2DBCB771214A06B6E040CD9B0F274EFE

Citation

ANZLIC Identifier:2DBCB771214A06B6E040CD9B0F274EFE

Title:Soil and Land Information System (SALInfo)

Citation Date:2000-01-14

Date Type:publication

Custodian:Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security

Description

Abstract:

SALInfo - Soil And Land Information System
This is an NT wide corporate soil and landform point database that stores soil profile and landform descriptions collected by the land and vegetation group. It contains new information and historical information collected as far back as the 1940's. It was originally built in 2002 but underwent a major upgrade in 2008.

ANZLIC Search Words:

environment

geoscientificInformation

imageryBaseMapsEarthCover

Spatial Domain:

Bounding Coordinates:

North Bounding Coordinate:-10.958579

South Bounding Coordinate:-25.998618

East Bounding Coordinate:138.001246

West Bounding Coordinate:129.001222

Dataset Status

Dataset ID:ANZNT0903000060

Language:English

Character Set: Latin 1

Progress:onGoing

Maintenance and Update Frequency:continual

Data Currency Start Date:2002-01-01

Data Currency End Date:

Access Constraint:Download the spatial data package (contains spatial data, maps and reports) via data.nt.gov.au/

You are licensed to use the DENR geospatial products on the terms and conditions set out in: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC BY 4.0) at: creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

If you do not agree to the terms and conditions you must not use the geospatial products.

You are free to copy, communicate and adapt the licensed material, provided that you abide by the licence terms (including Attribution) and attribute the licensed material using the statement:

Supplied by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. Copyright Northern Territory Government.

Data Quality

Lineage:SALInfo is the NT soil and land point source corporate database with items as per Australian Standards. Site data is recorded in the field and entered into SALInfo. It stores profile descriptions and also has the capacity to store soil chemical and physical properties.

Positional Accuracy:Current point location data is collected via 3D GPS. Historical points with no spatial coordinates has been located from various sources. These include aerial photography, topographic map sheets (50K, 100K or 250K), including working copies of these map sheets used for survey purposes.

Current positional accuracy is +/- 20 metres to +/-50 metres.
Pre GPS positional accuracy is variable generally +/-100 metres to +/-300 metres.

Attribute Accuracy:The accuracy of the attribute information is considered to be good. Information has gemerally been collected to national standards at the time of capture.

Logical Consistency:Not Applicable.

Completeness:STATUS: Ongoing (Historical data is continually being located and new data loaded on the Soil and Land Database (SALInfo)). Considerable effort is currently being made to capture all soil site locations and capture historical data.

Contacts

Name Organisation Position Role Phone Fax Email

Data Requests Officer Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security Geospatial Services Branch (on behalf of department) distributor datarequests.depws@nt.gov.au

Name	Organisation	Position	Role	Phone	Fax	Email
Data Requests Officer	Department of Environment, Parks and Water Security	Geospatial Services Branch (on behalf of department)	distributor			datarequests.depws@nt.gov.au

Data Dictionary

Attribute Attribute Description Possible Code Code Description

COLOUR1 Soil colour (moist) of the horizon, recorded using the Munsell Colour Chart.

COLOUR2 Soil colour (moist) of the horizon, recorded using the Munsell Color Chart.

COLOUR3 Soil colour (moist) of the third horizon, recorded using the Munsell Color Chart.

COLOUR4 Soil colour (moist) of the fourth horizon, recorded using the Munsell Color Chart.

COLOUR5 Soil colour (moist) of the fifth horizon, recorded using the Munsell Color Chart.

DEPTH1 The boundaries of the upper most horizon as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

DEPTH2 The boundaries of the second horizon as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

DEPTH3 The boundaries of the third horizon as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

DEPTH4 The boundaries of the fourth horizon as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

DEPTH5 The boundaries of the fifth horizon as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

DESCRIBED_DATE Date of observation in the field.

DRAINAGE Drainage as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

FABRIC1 The fabric of the upper most horizon of the soil profile as defined by McDonald (1998).

FABRIC2 The fabric of the second horizon of the soil profile as defined by McDonald (1998).

FABRIC3 The fabric of the third horizon of the soil profile as defined by McDonald (1998).

FABRIC4 The fabric of the fourth horizon of the soil profile as defined by McDonald (1998).

FABRIC5 The fabric of the fifth horizon of the soil profile as defined by McDonald (1998).

LANDFORM_ELEMENT Landform element as defined by McDonald et al. (1998)

LANDFORM_PATTERN Landform pattern as defined by McDonald et al. (1998)

LAYER1 The uppermost soil horizon in the profile as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

LAYER2 The second soil horizon in the profile as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

LAYER3 The third soil horizon in the profile as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

LAYER4 The fourth soil horizon in the profile as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

LAYER5 The fifth soil horizon in the profile as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

PEDALITY1 Grade of pedality of horizon 1, as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

PEDALITY2 Grade of pedality of horizon 2, as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

PEDALITY3 Grade of pedality of horizon 3, as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

PEDALITY4 Grade of pedality of horizon 4, as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

PERMEABLE Soil permeability as defined by McDonald et al. 1998.

PH1 Horizon 1 pH by either Raupach and Tucker or 1:5 soil/water solution.

PH2 Horizon 2 pH by either Raupach and Tucker or 1:5 soil/water solution.

PH3 Horizon 3 pH by either Raupach and Tucker or 1:5 soil/water solution.

PH4 Horizon 4, pH by either Raupach and Tucker or 1:5 soil/water solution

PH5 Horizon 5, pH by either Raupach and Tucker or 1:5 soil/water solution

SITE_NO The site number within a particular SURVEY ID.

SLOPE Slope (%) as defined by McDonald et al. 1998.

SOIL_ASC Australian Soil Classification as defined by Isbell (2003) and in some cases Isbell (1996).

SUBSTRATE Substrate material encountered as defined by McDonald et al. 1998.

SURVEY_ID A 2-5 alpha-numerical code used to identify the survey. It is unique and reflects the original code written on the field description sheet. Where there is duplication between surveys they are diferentiated by the year (ie. TIP68 and TIP87).

SURVEY_NAME Survey Name - land resource survey report name

TEXTURE1 Horizon 1 field texture grade as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

TEXTURE2 Horizon 2 field texture grade as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

TEXTURE3 Horizon 3 field texture grade as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

TEXTURE4 Horizon 4 field texture grade as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

TEXTURE5 Horizon 5 field texture grade as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

Attribute	Attribute Description	Possible Code	Code Description
COLOUR1	Soil colour (moist) of the horizon, recorded using the Munsell Colour Chart.
COLOUR2	Soil colour (moist) of the horizon, recorded using the Munsell Color Chart.
COLOUR3	Soil colour (moist) of the third horizon, recorded using the Munsell Color Chart.
COLOUR4	Soil colour (moist) of the fourth horizon, recorded using the Munsell Color Chart.
COLOUR5	Soil colour (moist) of the fifth horizon, recorded using the Munsell Color Chart.
DEPTH1	The boundaries of the upper most horizon as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
DEPTH2	The boundaries of the second horizon as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
DEPTH3	The boundaries of the third horizon as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
DEPTH4	The boundaries of the fourth horizon as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
DEPTH5	The boundaries of the fifth horizon as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
DESCRIBED_DATE	Date of observation in the field.
DRAINAGE	Drainage as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
FABRIC1	The fabric of the upper most horizon of the soil profile as defined by McDonald (1998).
FABRIC2	The fabric of the second horizon of the soil profile as defined by McDonald (1998).
FABRIC3	The fabric of the third horizon of the soil profile as defined by McDonald (1998).
FABRIC4	The fabric of the fourth horizon of the soil profile as defined by McDonald (1998).
FABRIC5	The fabric of the fifth horizon of the soil profile as defined by McDonald (1998).
LANDFORM_ELEMENT	Landform element as defined by McDonald et al. (1998)
LANDFORM_PATTERN	Landform pattern as defined by McDonald et al. (1998)
LAYER1	The uppermost soil horizon in the profile as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
LAYER2	The second soil horizon in the profile as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
LAYER3	The third soil horizon in the profile as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
LAYER4	The fourth soil horizon in the profile as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
LAYER5	The fifth soil horizon in the profile as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
PEDALITY1	Grade of pedality of horizon 1, as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
PEDALITY2	Grade of pedality of horizon 2, as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
PEDALITY3	Grade of pedality of horizon 3, as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
PEDALITY4	Grade of pedality of horizon 4, as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
PERMEABLE	Soil permeability as defined by McDonald et al. 1998.
PH1	Horizon 1 pH by either Raupach and Tucker or 1:5 soil/water solution.
PH2	Horizon 2 pH by either Raupach and Tucker or 1:5 soil/water solution.
PH3	Horizon 3 pH by either Raupach and Tucker or 1:5 soil/water solution.
PH4	Horizon 4, pH by either Raupach and Tucker or 1:5 soil/water solution
PH5	Horizon 5, pH by either Raupach and Tucker or 1:5 soil/water solution
SITE_NO	The site number within a particular SURVEY ID.
SLOPE	Slope (%) as defined by McDonald et al. 1998.
SOIL_ASC	Australian Soil Classification as defined by Isbell (2003) and in some cases Isbell (1996).
SUBSTRATE	Substrate material encountered as defined by McDonald et al. 1998.
SURVEY_ID	A 2-5 alpha-numerical code used to identify the survey. It is unique and reflects the original code written on the field description sheet. Where there is duplication between surveys they are diferentiated by the year (ie. TIP68 and TIP87).
SURVEY_NAME	Survey Name - land resource survey report name
TEXTURE1	Horizon 1 field texture grade as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
TEXTURE2	Horizon 2 field texture grade as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
TEXTURE3	Horizon 3 field texture grade as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
TEXTURE4	Horizon 4 field texture grade as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).
TEXTURE5	Horizon 5 field texture grade as defined by McDonald et al. (1998).

Supplementary Information

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Metadata : Soil and Land Information System (SALInfo)