Access soilgrid data using the WCS protocol

grass gis

python

open data

This tutorial shows how to use the Python OWSLib package to access soilgrid.org data via the Web Coverage Service (WCS) protocol. tags: GRASS GIS, WCS, open data

Author

Paulo van Breugel

Published

November 25, 2020

The soil data layers from soilgrid.org provides access to grid layers representing the spatial distribution of soil properties across the globe. This tutorial shows how to use the Python OWSLib package to access the data via the Web Coverage Service (WCS) protocol, the Python rasterio package to inspect and print the data, and GRASS GIS to store the data. Click here to go to tutorial.