Publishing Details
Tool Type:
Droppr
Publication Year:
2010
Publisher:
HarvestChoice/International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Years Covered:
2010
Version:
1.0
Primary Contact:
Jawoo Koo
Lowest Geographic Unit:
level-3 administrative unit Abstract
Developed by HarvestChoice by blending and interpreting information from both HWSD and WISE databases.
For a selected location (mapping unit) droppr returns:
• Number of soil types
• Representative WISE profiles assigned to each soil type
• Area share of each soil type
• Fertility, Depth and Texture classes of each soil type according to HC27
• Downloadable data in DSSAT or APSIM format for crop modeling
Additional Attributes
Data Sources/Credits:
IIASA/FAO/ISRIC (2010), John Dimes & Jawoo Koo (2010)
Keywords: Crop Improvement, Crop Models, Crops, DROPPR, Models, Soil Profiles, Soils, Spatial Analysis, World
Geographic Coverage: Angola, Benin, Burundi, West Africa, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Cameroon, Congo DR, Lesotho, Chad, Malawi, Congo, Cote d'Ivoire, Mauritius, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Mozambique, Gabon, Madagascar, Namibia, Gambia, Rwanda, South Africa, Ghana, Seychelles, Swaziland, Guinea, Sudan, Zambia, Guinea-Bissau, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Liberia, Uganda, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo, East & Central Africa, Southern Africa
Format/Platform: Droppr (MySQL, GoogleMap API, JavaScript), PHP
