The Bangladesh
Soil Salinity
Database
The database currently contains XX,XXX soil salinity measurements across XX,XXX locations and includes data on the precise location, type of land, and measurement technology.
এই ওয়েবসাইটের বাংলা সংস্করণের জন্য এখানে ক্লিক করুন। _
Background on Soil Salinity
Most plants struggle to grow in soil with too much salt. Climate change threatens to increase salinity, yet our understanding of the causes and consequences of this phenomenon remain limited due to a lack of data.Access Soil Salinity Data
To download the soil salinity measurements, please click here.For a description of each variable in the database, please click here.
To read the corresponding academic paper that describes the construction of the database and validates the measurements, please click here.
To download the GADM shapefile of the unions referenced in the database, please click here.
Contribute to the Database
This database includes measurements of soil salinity collected by a combination of government agencies and academic researchers. We are always on the lookout to include more data, both in Bangladesh and in other countries.If you are conducting fieldwork in rural areas, we encourage you to equip field staff with low-cost agronomic sensors that can quickly and easily test soil conditions during the course of enumerators' normal research activities.
If you have already collected soil salinity data not listed here or are interested in collecting new data in the course of your research, please contact Dev Patel at devapatel3 at gmail dot com.
Related Work
If you use this data in your research, please let us know so that we can list your work here."Learning About a Warming World: Attention and Adaptation in Agriculture", Dev Patel (2024).
"The Bangladesh Soil Salinity Database", Dev Patel, Roshni Islam, and S. M. Shahriar Zaman (2024).