Extract soil initial conditions from soilgrids REST API

[ankurdesai]

Recent post on Ameriflux listserv showed off a new queryable interface to information on soil texture, depth, organic carbon, and other information highly useful to ecosystem models.

Description

When we get around to soil IC, this seems like a possible data source to implement an API to query a point or region.

Context

Soils --- that's where most of the carbon is!

Possible Implementation

API documentation is provided at https://rest.soilgrids.org/ Uses JSON query, mostly URL string based. Pattern on vegetation IC.

[mdietze]

Saw Dennis's Ameriflux email and @ankurdesai beat me to posting an issue

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[serbinsh]

I dont know if this is exactly what you were asking for @ankurdesai but we are working on this PR to allow us to extract SOC and SOC uncertainties by depth from SoilGrids rasters https://github.com/PecanProject/pecan/pull/2903