Overarching Task: Cross-Cutting Products and ServicesSub-task Number: US-09-03cSub-task Title: Global Soil Data

Definition:

Supporting the development a Global Soil Map building upon the work of ongoing and completed projects

Incorporating data from global, regional and national soil data projects into a coherent system using a common dictionary

Global Soil Data

The sub-task will be based on the outcome of various ongoing projects that collect/compile global soil data:

• e-SOTER• GlobalSoilMap.net

These projects use existing information and create new datasets:

• area soil class information ('traditional' soil maps) • continuous soil property surfaces (digital soil mapping products)

Global Soil Data

Existing soil datasets:

• Harmonized World Soil Database• Generalized Soil Map of the USA• Soil Landscapes of Canada• European Soil Database• Australian Soil Resources Information System• Various SOTER databases

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Global Soil Data

Planned global soil datasets (from 2010 onwards):

• area soil class information (traditional soil map) with latest information at a resolution of 1 x 1 km

• continuous soil property surfaces (digital soil mapping products) with an increasing resolution starting from 10 x 10 km and going towards 90 x 90 m

The GEO Executive Committee recently proposed the GEO 2010 Baseline Initiative to include Soils as a data set.

Global Soil Data

Are the Global Soil Dataset components being developed relevant to the implementation of the GEOSS?

Will data/observations/information/products be registered into GEOSS?

Global Soil Data

Thanks

www.esoter.org

Global Soil Data