Digital soil map of the Ussuri River basin
- Authors: Bugaets A.N.1,2,3, Pschenichnikova N.F.1, Tereshkina A.A.1,2, Krasnopeev S.M.1,4, Gartsman B.I.1,3, Golodnaya O.M.5, Oznobikhin V.I.5
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Affiliations:
- Pacific Institute of Geography
- Far Eastern Regional Hydrometeorological Research Institute (FERHRI)
- Institute of Water Problems
- Far Eastern Federal University
- Federal Scientific Center of the Biodiversity of Terrestrial Biota of East Asia
- Issue: Vol 50, No 8 (2017)
- Pages: 907-916
- Section: Genesis and Geography of Soils
- URL: https://journals.rcsi.science/1064-2293/article/view/224107
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1134/S1064229317080038
- ID: 224107
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Abstract
On the basis of digital soil, topographic, and geological maps; raster topography model; forestry materials; and literature data, the digital soil map of the Ussuri River basin (24400 km2) was created on a scale of 1: 100000. To digitize the initial paper-based maps and analyze the results, an ESRI ArcGIS Desktop (ArcEditor) v.10.1 (http://www.esri.com) and an open-code SAGA GIS v.2.3 (System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses, http://www.saga-gis.org) were used. The spatial distribution of soil areas on the obtained digital soil map is in agreement with modern cartographic data and the SRTM digital elevation model (SRTM DEM). The regional soil classification developed by G.I. Ivanov was used in the legend to the soil map. The names of soil units were also correlated with the names suggested in the modern Russian soil classification system. The major soil units on the map are at the soil subtypes that reflect the entire vertical spectrum of soils in the south of the Far East of Russia (Primorye region). These are mountainous tundra soils, podzolic soils, brown taiga soils, mountainous brown forest soils, bleached brown soils, meadow-brown soils, meadow gley soils, and floodplain soils). With the help of the spatial analysis function of GIS, the comparison of the particular characteristics of the soil cover with numerical characteristics of the topography, geological composition of catchments, and vegetation cover was performed.
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About the authors
A. N. Bugaets
Pacific Institute of Geography; Far Eastern Regional Hydrometeorological Research Institute (FERHRI); Institute of Water Problems
Author for correspondence.
Email: andreybugaets@ya.ru
Russian Federation, ul. Radio 7, Vladivostok, 690041; ul. Fontannaya 24, Vladivostok, 690091; ul Gubkina 3, Moscow, 119333
N. F. Pschenichnikova
Pacific Institute of Geography
Email: andreybugaets@ya.ru
Russian Federation, ul. Radio 7, Vladivostok, 690041
A. A. Tereshkina
Pacific Institute of Geography; Far Eastern Regional Hydrometeorological Research Institute (FERHRI)
Email: andreybugaets@ya.ru
Russian Federation, ul. Radio 7, Vladivostok, 690041; ul. Fontannaya 24, Vladivostok, 690091
S. M. Krasnopeev
Pacific Institute of Geography; Far Eastern Federal University
Email: andreybugaets@ya.ru
Russian Federation, ul. Radio 7, Vladivostok, 690041; ul. Sukhanova 8, Vladivostok, 690950
B. I. Gartsman
Pacific Institute of Geography; Institute of Water Problems
Email: andreybugaets@ya.ru
Russian Federation, ul. Radio 7, Vladivostok, 690041; ul Gubkina 3, Moscow, 119333
O. M. Golodnaya
Federal Scientific Center of the Biodiversity of Terrestrial Biota of East Asia
Email: andreybugaets@ya.ru
Russian Federation, prosp. 100-letiya Vladivostoka, Vladivostok, 690022
V. I. Oznobikhin
Federal Scientific Center of the Biodiversity of Terrestrial Biota of East Asia
Email: andreybugaets@ya.ru
Russian Federation, prosp. 100-letiya Vladivostoka, Vladivostok, 690022
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