Cartographic study of the soil-geographical regularities within the Amur basin

We have generated the “Dominant Soils” geoinformation layer (digital coverage), the base for the general-purpose soil map for the Amur river basin encompassing the trans-boundary territories of Russia, China and Mongolia. It relies on the principle of maximum possible retention of information from the source soil maps, and on unification of soil-cartographic material. We demonstrate the geographical regularities of soil occurrence within the entire basin, and the specific character of its separate regions.