The soil group map (soil class) has been made for the Dano catchment. It consists in a shapefile presenting mainly six class of soil groups: Cambisols, Gleysols, Plinthosols, Stagnosols, Leptosols and the Lithosols. A report on the creation of the soil map is available.

Saturated water content values for the 21 soil units of the Dano catchment. Also include the horizon depth for each soil.

The new maps, commissioned by the Africa Soil Information Services project (AfSIS), are important for studies on agricultural development, environment and food security. In Africa, significant amounts of soil nutrients are lost every year due to land degradation and soil exhaustion. However, improving land management is impossible without local information on soil properties such as sand-silt-clay content, water-holding capacity, or nutrient content. Unfortunately accurate soil information has been difficult to obtain for governments or research institutes, because existing soil profiles records are scattered over many sources. The aim of AfSIS, an international project funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is to improve this situation, among others by creating up-to-date digital soil property maps at high spatial resolution. For further information see article: http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0125814

Bulk density values for the 21 soil units of the Dano catchment. Also include the horizon depth for each soil.

In situ infiltration rate measurements using the Hood infiltrometer.