Articles | Volume 12, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-299-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-12-299-2020
Data description paper
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10 Feb 2020
Data description paper |  | 10 Feb 2020

Standardised soil profile data to support global mapping and modelling (WoSIS snapshot 2019)

Niels H. Batjes, Eloi Ribeiro, and Ad van Oostrum

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This dataset provides quality-assessed and standardised soil data to support digital soil mapping and environmental applications at broadscale levels. The underpinning soil profiles were shared by a wide range of data providers. Special attention was paid to the standardisation of soil property definitions, analytical method descriptions and property values. We present measures for geographic accuracy and a first approximation for the uncertainty associated with the various analytical methods.
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