Water Stewardship Information Sources
| Resource Name | National Soil Database (NSDB) |
|---|---|
| Unique File Number | 112 |
| Information Type | inventory |
| Surface Water | |
| Aquatic Ecosystem | |
| Groundwater | |
| Groundwater & Surface Water | |
| Management for Natural & Industrial Hazards | A |
| Strengths | |
| Limitations | |
| Challenges | |
| Outstanding Research Questions | |
| Outstanding Research Questions | |
| Information Subtype | soil |
| Organization | Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada |
| Resource Name | The National Soil Database |
| Resource Purpose | The NSDB is the set of computer readable files which contain soil, landscape, and climatic data for all of Canada. It serves as the national archive for land resources information that was collected by federal and provincial field surveys, or created by land data analysis projects. The NSDB includes GIS coverages at a variety of scales, and the characteristics of each named soil series. The principal types of data holdings (ordered by scale) are as follows: (1) National Ecological Framework; (2) Soil Map of Canada; (3) Agroecological Resource Areas; (4) Soil Landscapes of Canada; (5) Canada Land Inventory; (6) Detailed Soil Surveys; (7) Soil Name and Profile Data |
| Type of Information | webpage |
| How does this help decision making? | |
| Program Status | ongoing |
| NE Coverage | national |
| Drinking Water | |
| Ecosystem | |
| Fish | |
| Groundwater | |
| Public Safety | Y |
| SW Quality | |
| SW Quantity | |
| Link | http://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/nsdb/index.html |
| Text Query | |
| Google Earth | |
| iMap Path Link | |
| Spatial Metadata | |
| Map | |
| Contact Email |