Articles | Volume 16, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-4735-2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-16-4735-2024
Data description paper
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22 Oct 2024
Data description paper |  | 22 Oct 2024

Providing quality-assessed and standardised soil data to support global mapping and modelling (WoSIS snapshot 2023)

Niels H. Batjes, Luis Calisto, and Luis M. de Sousa

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Standardised soil profile data for the world (WoSIS, December snapshot) [Dataset] Luis Calisto et al. https://doi.org/10.17027/isric-wdcsoils-20231130

Short summary
Soils are an important provider of ecosystem services. This dataset provides quality-assessed and standardised soil data to support digital soil mapping and environmental applications at a broad scale. 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 three measures to assess "fitness for intended use" of the standardised data.
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