Global Assessment of Human-induced Soil Degradation (GLASOD)
The GLASOD project (1987-1990), carried out for UNEP, has produced a world map of human-induced soil degradation. Data were compiled in cooperation with a large number of soil scientists throughout the world, using uniform Guidelines and international correlation. The status of soil degradation was mapped within loosely defined physiographic units (polygons), based on expert judgement. The type, extent, degree, rate and main causes of degradation have been printed on a global map, at a scale of 1:10 million, and documented in a downloadable database. Information about the areal extent of human-induced soil degradation can be found in an explanatory note.
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 1990-10-01
- Identifier
- 9e84c15e-cb46-45e2-9126-1ca38bd5cd22
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Status
- Completed
Author
ISRIC - World Soil Information
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Godert van Lynden
(
Deputy Director
)
PO Box 353
,
Wageningen
,
6700AJ
,
Netherlands
Author
ISRIC - World Soil Information
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R.T.A. Hakkeling
(
Former staff
)
PO Box 353
,
Wageningen
,
6700AJ
,
Netherlands
Author
ISRIC - World Soil Information
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W .G. Sombroek
(
Former staff
)
PO Box 353
,
Wageningen
,
6700AJ
,
Netherlands
- Theme
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- chemical deterioration
- physical deterioration
- degradation status
- Stratum
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- Soil science
- Region
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- Global
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
- Attribution 3.0 International (CC BY 3.0)
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 10000000
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
-
- Geoscientific information
- Begin date
- 1988-01-01
- End date
- 1990-10-01
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- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / 4326
- Distribution format
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zip
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)
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zip
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)
- OnLine resource
- Download ( WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-ftp--download )
- OnLine resource
- Project webpage ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )
- OnLine resource
- Article ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related )
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Statement
- Oldeman LR, Hakkeling RTA and Sombroek WG 1991. World Map of the Status of Human-Induced Soil Degradation: An explanatory Note (rev. ed.), UNEP and ISRIC, Wageningen, https://isric.org/sites/default/files/isric_report_1990_07.pdf
- File identifier
- 9e84c15e-cb46-45e2-9126-1ca38bd5cd22 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2021-07-14T11:52:33
- Metadata standard name
- ISO 19115:2003/19139
- Metadata standard version
- 2003/Cor.1:2006
Overviews
Spatial extent
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