Senegal
Water retention capacity of soils

The published map covers the whole country at a resolution of 30 metres and is a valuable resource for hydrological studies and spatial simulations of cropping patterns in the region where water is a limiting factor for agricultural production. The dataset is based on existing soil property estimation products and uses pedotransfer functions (PTFs) from the Rosetta3 model to estimate soil water retention capacities. This map of water availability for plants provides a spatialised estimate of these properties, which can be useful for informing water and agricultural managers, policy-makers and investors. The dataset, including the intermediate variables for the various stages of the calculation, is available in GeoTIFF format on CIRAD's Dataverse.