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Providing quality-assessed and standardised soil data to support global mapping and modelling (WoSIS snapshot 2023)
ISRIC – World Soil Information, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands
Luis Calisto
ISRIC – World Soil Information, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands
Luis M. de Sousa
ISRIC – World Soil Information, Droevendaalsesteeg 3, 6708 PB Wageningen, the Netherlands
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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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