ISRIC Soil Information System (ISIS)

ISRIC Soil Information System (ISIS) brings the ISRIC World Soil Reference Collection on-line and characterizes a collection of monoliths with morphological, analytical data (chemical and physical) that represent the main soil groups of the World. ISIS holds data on the World Soil Reference Collection including over 950 monoliths from over 74 countries with detailed soil profile and environmental data. The collection provides a scientific reference for the legend of the FAO_UNESCO Soil Map of the World and internation soil classification system that evolved from it, the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB) and other international systems (USDA Soil Taxonomy).

Users currently have access to site data (60 attributes on location, geology, landform, soil surface properties, hydrology, land-use, vegetation and climate) and soil data (soil profile description according to the FAO Guidelines; 100 physical, chemical and mineralogical attributes; and attributes for classification in the FAO-Unesco Legend (1974), the Revised FAO-Unesco Legend (1988), World Reference Base for Soil Resources (all versions), USDA Soil Taxonomy, and a national classification system, as available). ISRIC will continue to enlarge its soil reference collection.

Date (Publication): 1990-06-01

Citation identifier: ISRIC-ISIS-v3

Presentation form: Digital table

Purpose: The collection was built up to show representative examples of the units distinguished in the legend of the soil map of the world. These reference profiles – or soil monoliths - would be well documented and analysed and therewith be an example and a resource for education, correlation and research

Status: Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
ISRIC - World Soil Information	Stephan Mantel	Stephan.Mantel@isric.org	Custodian

Theme

monolith
world reference base

Stratum

Soil science

Region

Global

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Open Database License (ODbl) v1.0

Spatial representation type: Vector

Distance: 10 m

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Geoscientific information

Begin date: 1950-01-01

End date: 2015-12-01

Reference system identifier: EPSG / 4326

Distribution format

Name	Version
GraphQL

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
download	https://graphql.isric.org/isis/graphql	graphql endpoint
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://graphql.isric.org/isis/graphiql	User interface
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://isis.isric.org	Website