Welcome to the LandIS Soil Portal
Scanned versions of our published soil maps and books now available
Looking for a published soil map or book? Due to Covid-19 supply of paper copies from our publications store will currently take longer. However, many of our published soil maps and books are also available as JPG/PDF scans. We usually sell these scanned versions at twice the price of the physical medium, however to ensure we can continue to supply publications during this time and to thank you for your support we are reducing the cost of these scanned items by 50% in line with the published price.
You can search for available publications and maps using our Online Catalogue. When you identify the map and/or book of interest, please contact nsridata@cranfield.ac.uk so we can check if a scanned version is available. Thank you for your support during these difficult times and stay safe.
Maps and Books from Centre for Environmental & Agricultural Informatics (CAEI)
Soil-related publications
Cranfield's Centre for Environmental & Agricultural Informatics (CAEI), incorporates the National Soil Resources Institute (NSRI) at Cranfield University, and the earlier Soil Survey and Land Research Centre (SSLRC) and, as a result, maintains all the published and unpublished paper soil reports and maps for England and Wales. Centre for Environmental & Agricultural Informatics (CAEI) market a wide range of paper maps, books, technical reports and articles associated with soil and land-use management.
Publications may be purchased by completing our Order Form and returning it to the address below. For information on application forms, licences and terms and conditions, please consult the documentation listed below.
Map holdings
Location of our soil maps
The location of our maps are provided below. Select the desired scales from the selection below to see the location of each set of maps available. Alternatively you can view the locations of our maps in a GIS tool, or Google Earth by downloading the appropriate files listed beneath the map viewer below.
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Published Soil Map locations in Google Earth KMZ format. |
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Published Soil Map locations in GIS format. Note you would need a GIS program, such as ESRI ArcGIS, or a free GIS, such as QGIS, or gvSIG, to view these files. |
Centre for Environmental & Agricultural Informatics (CAEI) also have a large colume of detailed farm-level mapping in their archives. Locations of these maps are presented below:
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Farm Survey locations in Google Earth KMZ format. |
Obtaining publications
How to purchase maps and books
If you have any questions or comments, please contact Sara Larman, the Publications Officer and Administrative Coordinator on (01234) 750111 x2772.
You can directly contact us by email as well: nsridata@cranfield.ac.uk.
We are always happy to help over the phone, or by e-mail, so if you have any questions, please ask.
For payments towards products, materials and services, please note our secure online payments system, powered by Worldpay, which accepts online payments.
Sara Larman
Publications Officer and Administrative Coordinator
Cranfield Centre for Environmental & Agricultural Informatics
Cranfield University
Building 53a
Cranfield campus
Cranfield
MK43 0AL
Tel: (01234) 750111 x2772
Fax: (01234) 752970
nsridata@cranfield.ac.uk
Office hours are Mon to Fri 9:00am to 3:30pm
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