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

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 1–14, 2017

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

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

Earth Syst. Sci. Data, 9, 1–14, 2017

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

WoSIS: providing standardised soil profile data for the world

Niels H. Batjes et al.

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Final revised paper (published on 17 Jan 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 21 Oct 2016)

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Reviewer comment: WoSIS: Serving standardised soil profile data for the world', Gustaf Hugelius, 20 Nov 2016
- AC1: 'Author response to Referee #1 : ESSDD-2016-34-RC1', Niels Batjes, 13 Dec 2016
RC2: 'Referee Comment on ``WoSIS: Serving standardised soil profile data for the world'' by Niels H. Batjes et al.', Alessandro Samuel-Rosa, 29 Nov 2016
- AC2: 'Author response to Referee #2 : ESSDD-2016-34-RC1', Niels Batjes, 13 Dec 2016

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.