This is a downloader for the Soil data. We will start with the SoilGrids dataset.
It was downloaded using the soilgrids 0.1.3 library. Docs can be found here.
The idea here is to have two functionalities implemented:
- on-demand download through geographic querying (e.g., passing a lon-lat pair, or an OS grid code for the UK) the relevant soil data from the SoilGrids API. Data in this case is not saved to disk.
- Bulk download of soil data from a geographic area defined with a bounding box to be saved on disk in .netCDF format.
Mattia Mancini: Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP), University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4PU, United Kingdom. Email: [email protected]
Mingyuan Chen: Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP), University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4PU, United Kingdom. Email: [email protected]
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- We create a SoilApp object, which the user needs to initialise as follows:
soil_app = SoilApp() - This object contains two methods:
download()andbulk_download() download()takes as only argument a dictionary containing either {'lon': longitude, 'lat': latitude} coordinates or {'OS_code': os_grid_code}bulk_download()which requires the coordinates defining the rectangular bounding box of the area of interest and the path in which the downloaded data will be stored as follows:xmin= the longitude of the left corners of the bounding box of interest;xmax= the longitude of the right corners of the bounding box of interest;ymin= the latitude of the bottom corners of the bounding box of interest;ymax= the latitude of the top corners of the bounding box of interest;save_path= the directory in which the downloaded data will be stored.
At a later stage, we will add the possibility of downloading data also from the World Harmonized Soil Database.