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.
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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
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- 0f85c381-e496-47d9-89d8-f1fe2ee1a517
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role ISRIC - World Soil Information
Niels Batjes
Author ISRIC - World Soil Information (WDC - Soils)
Eloi Ribeiro
Author ISRIC - World Soil Information (WDC - Soils)
Data info desk
Custodian ISRIC - World Soil Information (WDC - Soils)
Data info desk
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calcium
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carbon
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cation exchange capacity
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electrical conductivity
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nitrogen
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organic carbon
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bulk density
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soil classification
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soil depth
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soil profiles
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pH
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salinity
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texture
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water holding capacity
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soil profiles
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nutrients
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Soil science
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Global
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- Attribution 3.0 International (CC BY 3.0)
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- 30 arc-second
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- English
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- Geoscientific information
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- 1950-01-01
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- 1995-07-01
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- EPSG / 4326
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role ISRIC - World Soil Information (WDC - Soils)
Data info desk
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Protocol Linkage Name WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-ftp--download
https://files.isric.org/public/wise/ISRIC_report_1995_10b.zip Download
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--related
https://www.isric.org/documents/document-type/isric-report-199510b-homogenized-soil-data-file-global-environmental Project webpage
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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
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- 0f85c381-e496-47d9-89d8-f1fe2ee1a517 XML
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- English
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dataset
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- 2025-02-05T10:34:26
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ISO 19115:2003/19139
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2003/Cor.1:2006
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role ISRIC - World Soil Information
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