The National Soil DataBase
Also known as Base nationale de données sur les sols · BNDS · NSDB
The NSDB is the set of computer readable files which contain soil, landscape, and climatic data for all of Canada. It serves as the national archive for land resources information that was collected by federal and provincial field surveys, or created by land data analysis projects. The NSDB includes GIS coverages at a variety of scales, and the characteristics of each named soil series. The principal types of NSDB data holdings (ordered by scale) are as follows: National Ecological Framework (EcoZones, EcoRegions, and EcoDistricts); Soil Map of Canada / Land Potential DataBase (LPDB); Agroecological Resource Areas (ARAs); Soil Landscapes of Canada (SLC); Canada Land Inventory (CLI); Detaile…
Getting access
Open access Open
- How to apply
- Not yet verified — we don’t publish a route we haven’t checked.
Summarised from a registry — the exact application route is not yet verified.
About this database
| Website | https://sis.agr.gc.ca/cansis/nsdb/index.html |
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| Subjects | Life Sciences · Natural Sciences · Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture and Veterinary Medicine · Geosciences (including Geography) · Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture and Veterinary Medicine · Geochemistry, Mineralogy and Crystallography · Geography · Soil Sciences · Ecology of Agricultural Landscapes · Physical Geography |
| Last updated | 2026-09-13 |