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A homogenized soil data file for global environmental research: A subset of FAO, ISRIC and NRCS profiles

A homogenized, global set of 1,125 soil profiles is presented. These profiles have been extracted from the database developed at ISRIC for a project on "World Inventory of Soil Emission Potentials" (WISE), as a contribution to the activities of the Global Soils Data Task Group of IGBP-DIS. The subset consists of a selection of 665 profiles originating from digital data files released by the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS, Lincoln), 250 profiles obtained from the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO, Rome), and 210 profiles from the reference collection of the International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC, Wageningen). All profiles are georeferenced and classified in the FAO-Unesco Legend whereby they can be linked to the edited and digital version of the FAO-Unesco Soil Map of the World. This data set is being released in the public domain for use by global modellers and other interested scientists. It is envisaged that the data set will be expanded by ISRIC when new, uniform soil profile data become available.

Note:

a) A more recent version (some 10,000 profiles) of WISE profiles is available at: http://data.isric.org/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/a351682c-330a-4995-a5a1-57ad160e621c (2009)

b) For a larger compilation see the WoSIS database: http://isric.org/explore/wosis (2017)

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Date (Publication)
1995-07-01
Identifier
0f85c381-e496-47d9-89d8-f1fe2ee1a517
Presentation form
Digital map
Status
Completed
Author
  ISRIC - World Soil Information - Niels Batjes ( Senior Soil Scientist )
PO Box 353 , Wageningen , 6700AJ , Netherlands
Author
  ISRIC - World Soil Information (WDC - Soils) - Eloi Ribeiro ( Geoinformatic )
P.O. Box 47 , Wageningen , 6708 PB , Netherlands
Custodian
  ISRIC - World Soil Information (WDC - Soils) - Data info desk
Point of contact
  ISRIC - World Soil Information (WDC - Soils) - Data info desk
Theme
  • calcium
  • carbon
  • cation exchange capacity
  • electrical conductivity
  • nitrogen
  • organic carbon
  • bulk density
  • soil classification
  • soil depth
  • soil profiles
  • pH
  • salinity
  • texture
  • water holding capacity
  • soil profiles
  • nutrients
Stratum
  • Soil science
Region
  • Global
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Attribution 3.0 International (CC BY 3.0)
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Distance
30  arc-second
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
1950-01-01
End date
1995-07-01
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / 4326
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Publisher
  ISRIC - World Soil Information (WDC - Soils) - Data info desk
OnLine resource
Download ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-ftp--download )
OnLine resource
Project webpage ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )
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Dataset
Statement
Batjes, N.H. (ed.), 1995. A homogenized soil data file for global environmental research: a subset of FAO, ISRICand NRCS profiles (Version 1.0). Working Paper and Preprint 95/10b, International Soil Reference andInformation Centre, Wageningen. https://isric.org/sites/default/files/isric_report_1995_10b.pdf
File identifier
0f85c381-e496-47d9-89d8-f1fe2ee1a517 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
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Dataset
Hierarchy level name
dataset
Date stamp
2025-02-05T10:34:26
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
2003/Cor.1:2006
Point of contact
  ISRIC - World Soil Information - Data infodesk
 
 

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bulk density calcium carbon cation exchange capacity electrical conductivity nitrogen nutrients organic carbon pH salinity soil classification soil depth soil profiles soil profiles texture water holding capacity

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