WoSIS: providing standardised soil profile data for the world

Batjes, Niels H.; Ribeiro, Eloi; van Oostrum, Ad; Leenaars, Johan; Hengl, Tom; Mendes de Jesus, Jorge

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-1-2017

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-1-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-1-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 9, issue 1

17 Jan 2017

| 17 Jan 2017

WoSIS: providing standardised soil profile data for the world

Niels H. Batjes, Eloi Ribeiro, Ad van Oostrum, Johan Leenaars, Tom Hengl, and Jorge Mendes de Jesus

Data sets

Standardised soil profile data for the world (WoSIS, July 2016 snapshot) N. H. Batjes, E. Ribeiro, A. van Oostrum, J. Leenaars, and J. Mendes de Jesus https://doi.org/10.17027/isric-wdcsoils.20160003

Short summary

Soil is an important provider of ecosystem services. Yet this natural resource is being threatened. Professionals, scientists, and decision makers require quality-assessed soil data to address issues such as food security, land degradation, and climate change. Procedures for safeguarding, standardising, and subsequently serving of consistent soil data to underpin broad-scale mapping and modelling are described. The data are freely accessible at doi:10.17027/isric-wdcsoils.20160003.