bda461b1-2f35-4d0c-bb16-44297068e10d
dataset
Ulan Turdukulov
ISRIC - World Soil Information
ulan.turdukulov@isric.org
2021-07-14T11:52:32
ISO 19115:2003/19139
2003/Cor.1:2006
4326
EPSG
Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD)
2012-02-01
bda461b1-2f35-4d0c-bb16-44297068e10d
Soil information, from the global to the local scale, has often been the one missing biophysical information layer, the absence of which has added to the uncertainties of predicting potentials and constraints for food and fiber production. The lack of reliable and harmonized soil data has considerably hampered land degradation assessments, environmental impact studies and adapted sustainable land management interventions.
Recognizing the urgent need for improved soil information worldwide, particularly in the context of the Climate Change Convention and the Kyoto Protocol for soil carbon measurements and the immediate requirement for the FAO/IIASA Global Agro-ecological Assessment study (GAEZ v3.0), the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) took the initiativeof combining the recently collected vast volumes of regional and national updates of soil information with the information already contained within the 1:5,000,000 scale FAOUNESCO Digital Soil Map of the World, into a new comprehensive Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD).
This database was achieved in partnership with:
• ISRIC-World Soil Information together with FAO, which were responsible for the development of regional soil and terrain databases and the WISE soil profile database;
• the European Soil Bureau Network, which had recently completed a major update of soil information for Europe and northern Eurasia, and
• the Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences which provided the recent 1:1,000,000 scale Soil Map of China.
Arwyn Jones
Joint Research Centre of the European Commission - European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC)
Postal code is enough
Brussels
1049
Italy
None
Edmar Edmar
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Schloss Laxenburg
Laxenburg
A-2361
Austria
None
Guenther Fischer
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Schloss Laxenburg
Laxenburg
A-2361
Austria
None
Koos Dijkshoorn
ISRIC - World Soil Information
Former staff
PO Box 353
Wageningen
6700AJ
Netherlands
None
Luca Montanarella
Joint Research Centre of the European Commission - European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC)
Postal code is enough
Brussels
1049
Italy
None
Monica Petri
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Project Coordinator
Viale delle Terme di Caracalla
Rome
00153
Italy
monica.petri@fao.org
Niels Batjes
ISRIC - World Soil Information
Senior Soil Scientist
PO Box 353
Wageningen
6700AJ
Netherlands
niels.batjes@isric.org
Sylvia Prieler
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
Schloss Laxenburg
Laxenburg
A-2361
Austria
None
Vincent van Engelen
ISRIC - World Soil Information
Former staff
PO Box 353
Wageningen
6700AJ
Netherlands
None
Xuezheng Shi
Institute of Soil Science - Chinese Academy of Sciences
Nanjing
210008
China
None
https://files.isric.org/public/thumbnails/other/HWSD_v1.21.jpg
soil profiles
Soil science
Stratum
Global
Region
Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International (CC BY-NC 3.0), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/
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geoscientificInformation
2008-01-01
2012-02-01
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zip
https://files.isric.org/public/other/HWSD_v1.21.zip
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Download
http://library.wur.nl/isric/fulltext/isricu_i29850_001.pdf
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Report
https://webarchive.iiasa.ac.at/Research/LUC/External-World-soil-database/HTML/
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Project webpage