Articles | Volume 9, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-1-2017
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-9-1-2017
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

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Baritz, R., Erdogan, H., Fujii, K., Takata, Y., Nocita, M., Bussian, B., Batjes, N. H., Hempel, J., Wilson, P., and Vargas, R.: Harmonization of methods, measurements and indicators for the sustainable management and protection of soil resources (Providing mechanisms for the collation, analysis and exchange of consistent and comparable global soil data and information), Global Soil Partnership, FAO, 44 pp., 2014.
Batjes, N. H.: World Inventory of Soil Emission Potentials: WISE 2.1 – Profile database user manual and coding protocols, ISRIC, Wageningen. Tech. Pap. 26, 56 pp., 1995.
Batjes, N. H.: Harmonized soil profile data for applications at global and continental scales: updates to the WISE database, Soil Use Manage., 25, 124–127 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-2743.2009.00202.x, 2009.
Batjes, N. H.: Harmonised soil property values for broad-scale modelling (WISE30sec) with estimates of global soil carbon stocks, Geoderma, 269, 61–68, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2016.01.034, 2016.
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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.
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