Ecological Units Layer

QGIS Data pre-processing steps

1. Open the land-cover and soil grids data on qgis

Loading the Landcover and Soil Grids on Qgis

2. On the processing tool box, search for the EcologicalUnitsModel which will appear under Models>**Land Productivity Models**

Finding the Ecological Unit Model

3. On the dialog that pops up, select the Landcover and the soil grid data as the input data and run the model

Ecological Unit Model dialog

Note

Ecological Unit Model summary

It is important that the dimenssions of the Landcover data and the soil grids data are matching. This can be checked by right clicking on the layer and navigating to properties>*Information*.

Checking the dimenssions of the datasets

To match the dimensions of the two layers you can resample the soil grids to match the resolution of the Landcover data.

4. On runing the model successfully the units layer will be loaded onto Qgis as shown below

Ecological Unit Model output

You can save the output from the Model to your desired location with the appropriate name

Saving the output

Uploading the Ecological Units to MISLAND Service

Data Upload Form