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sand_5-15cm_Q0.5 - SoilGrids250m 2.0 - Sand content - Ag Datahub

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SoilGrids250m 2.0 - Sand content
sand_5-15cm_Q0.5

WMS

Map service (WMS)Part of SoilGrids250m 2.0 - Sand content

sand_5-15cm_Q0.5

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sand_5-15cm_Q0.5

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Details

Format: WMS
Kind of access: Map service (WMS)
Protocol: OGC:WMS
Address: https://maps.isric.org/mapserv?map=/map/sand.map
Added to this catalogue: 6 Oct 2026
Last updated here: 6 Oct 2026
Resource identifier: 7d786fd1-dce5-4714-b869-bd165fd89588

At a glance

Format: WMS
Access: Map service (WMS)
Kept at: maps.isric.org
Licence: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Part of the dataset

SoilGrids250m 2.0 - Sand content

FDRE - Ministry of Agriculture (MoA)

Sand content (50/63-2000 micro meter) mass fraction in ‰ at 6 standard depths. Predictions were derived using a digital soil mapping approach based on Quantile Random Forest, drawing on a global compilation of soil profile data and environmental layers. To visualize these layers please use www.soilgrids.org.

In this dataset 28

WMSsand_0-5cm_mean
WMSsand_0-5cm_Q0.05
WMSsand_0-5cm_Q0.5
WMSsand_0-5cm_Q0.95
WMSsand_100-200cm_mean
WMSsand_100-200cm_Q0.05
WMSsand_100-200cm_Q0.5
WMSsand_100-200cm_Q0.95
WMSsand_15-30cm_mean
WMSsand_15-30cm_Q0.05
WMSsand_15-30cm_Q0.5
WMSsand_15-30cm_Q0.95
WMSsand_30-60cm_mean
WMSsand_30-60cm_Q0.05
WMSsand_30-60cm_Q0.5
WMSsand_30-60cm_Q0.95
WMSsand_5-15cm_mean
WMSsand_5-15cm_Q0.05
WMSsand_5-15cm_Q0.5
WMSsand_5-15cm_Q0.95
WMSsand_60-100cm_mean
WMSsand_60-100cm_Q0.05
WMSsand_60-100cm_Q0.5
WMSsand_60-100cm_Q0.95
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