Peterborough Digital Soils Mapping App
A digital soil mapping (DSM) project was undertaken in Peterborough as part of an ongoing initiative to generate digital soil maps of Ontario’s agricultural soils. Digital soil maps describe the spatial variability of soil properties at a high resolution and are suitable for use at multiple spatial scales to inform a variety of activities such as land use planning, agricultural land management and production planning, and as inputs for other modelling studies.
Digital Soil Mapping of the County of Peterborough
The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness has created a suite of spatially explicit digital soil maps (DSMs) for the County of Peterborough. Digital soil mapping is a modern soil mapping approach that combines geo-referenced soil observations with geo-referenced environmental layers to mathematically model soil properties as a function of environmental variation. These soil maps are the first of a suite of maps that will be generated and rolled out covering Ontario’s agricultural land base and provide updates to the current provincial soil data, maps and information.
Digital soil mapping generates soil maps at a consistent, high resolution throughout the landscape to improve accuracy and precision of soils data. This allows for better decision making to maximize land use efficiency, improve economic efficiency of soil resources and promote soil health and soil conservation.
This web mapping application allows the user to visualize various soil properties that were mapped in this region. The user can toggle layers, which represents the soil property predictions that were done at different depths, on and off to see the variation in soil properties as you travels down the soil profile. Users can also alter the layer transparencies in order to see other layers beneath.
Lastly, users have the ability to create their own map layouts to be used for printing purposes.
To download the raw data click onthe following link: Ottawa Digital Soil Maps | Ontario GeoHub
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| Last Updated | June 16, 2026, 17:42 (UTC) |
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Peterborough Digital Soils Mapping App |
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A digital soil mapping (DSM) project was undertaken in Peterborough as part of an ongoing initiative to generate digital soil maps of Ontario’s agricultural soils. Digital soil maps describe the spatial variability of soil properties at a high resolution and are suitable for use at multiple spatial scales to inform a variety of activities such as land use planning, agricultural land management and production planning, and as inputs for other modelling studies. Digital Soil Mapping of the County of Peterborough The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness has created a suite of spatially explicit digital soil maps (DSMs) for the County of Peterborough. Digital soil mapping is a modern soil mapping approach that combines geo-referenced soil observations with geo-referenced environmental layers to mathematically model soil properties as a function of environmental variation. These soil maps are the first of a suite of maps that will be generated and rolled out covering Ontario’s agricultural land base and provide updates to the current provincial soil data, maps and information. Digital soil mapping generates soil maps at a consistent, high resolution throughout the landscape to improve accuracy and precision of soils data. This allows for better decision making to maximize land use efficiency, improve economic efficiency of soil resources and promote soil health and soil conservation. This web mapping application allows the user to visualize various soil properties that were mapped in this region. The user can toggle layers, which represents the soil property predictions that were done at different depths, on and off to see the variation in soil properties as you travels down the soil profile. Users can also alter the layer transparencies in order to see other layers beneath. Lastly, users have the ability to create their own map layouts to be used for printing purposes. To download the raw data click onthe following link: Ottawa Digital Soil Maps | Ontario GeoHub |
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2026-03-23 |
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https://ontario-soils-geohub-ontarioca11.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/ontarioca11::peterborough-digital-soils-mapping-app |
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danbihari |
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OMAFRA |
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danbihari |
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2026-04-28 |
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https://ontario-soils-geohub-ontarioca11.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/ontarioca11::peterborough-digital-soils-mapping-app |
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