Abstract
Rational use and protection of soil in market conditions requires the adequate application of new scientific and methodological approaches. One of such system-analytical methods of soil cadastre organizations is the combination of traditional ground-based methods with geographic information systems (GIS) technologies based on the wide use of aerospace images of different resolutions. The set of information necessary for mapping of soil cover structures and their quantitative assessment is described in GIS databases. Data integration is realized through the spatial and attribute components in the form of topographic and thematic maps. At the same time, the creation of GIS attribute databases involves digitizing thematic maps linked in a single map projection (which was a topographic map of 1:50,000 scale). As a result of the work, thematic maps and GIS attributive databases were formed: soils. As a result of research based on GIS technology, a digital soil map of Aktau rural district of Chingirlau district of West Kazakhstan region was developed using the ArcGIS software product.