# HALOWERK Southern Land – Malta Soil Texture Class

> HALOWERK Southern Land – Malta Soil Texture Class is a paid API for AI agents from suedland.halowerk.com, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns the USDA soil texture class (e.g. clay loam, sandy loam) for a coordinate in Malta, derived from SoilGrids sand, silt, and clay fractions.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://suedland.halowerk.com/v1/mt-soil-texture
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/halowerk-southern-land-malta-soil-texture-class-301833d5
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_fqD1U1_AZSs9fwEvbZaMz

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability halowerk-southern-land-malta-soil-texture-class-301833d5 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What's the USDA soil texture class for the location at latitude 35.87, longitude 14.51 in Malta? I need it to assess whether the land is suitable for viticulture.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a ready-made USDA soil texture classification for a specific point in Malta without building your own SoilGrids pipeline. It is ideal for agricultural planning, land assessments, and environmental surveys scoped to Malta, and it automatically validates the coordinate against Malta's boundary before charging.

## Known failure modes

- Coordinate outside Malta's Natural Earth boundary — request rejected, no charge
- Latitude or longitude out of published European coverage range (lat 34–72.5, lon -31.5–40.5) — validation error
- SoilGrids data unavailable for the exact point — may return null or error
- Malformed input (non-numeric coordinates) — schema validation failure
- Payment failure via x402 protocol — request not processed

## How this service works

USDA texture class calculated from SoilGrids sand, silt and clay fractions. The coordinate is validated against the Natural Earth boundary for Malta; results outside it are rejected before payment.

## Output

A USDA soil texture class label (e.g. 'Sandy Loam', 'Clay', 'Loam') computed from the SoilGrids sand, silt, and clay fractions for the 0–5 cm surface layer at the specified coordinate. Requests falling outside Malta's Natural Earth boundary are rejected before payment is charged.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "latitude": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 72.5,
   "minimum": 34,
   "description": "WGS84 latitude inside the published European coverage."
  },
  "longitude": {
   "type": "number",
   "maximum": 40.5,
   "minimum": -31.5,
   "description": "WGS84 longitude inside the published European coverage."
  }
 }
}
```

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