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ISRIC - World Soil Information

Rik van den Bosch, Director

Wageningen Campus

ISRIC – World Soil Information

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FOOD production

Source: wikipedia.com

Climate Regulation

Source: thefederalist.com

HABITAT


WATER Management

Source: parelduiker.wordpress.com

FIBRE Fuel

Source: AFP

Building Material


Mission

Our role

• ISRIC is an important reference centre for soils

• ISRIC plays a significant role in standard setting

• ISRIC is the trusted broker of (global) soil information

• ISRIC assists with capacity building for the design and use of soil information services.

• ISRIC develops derived knowledge products for sustainable soil and land management.

Setting standards & reference

Information brokering

Education and capacity building Derived products

Work stream 1: Reference and Standards Setting

(‘The Foundation’)

World Reference Base (WRB)

OGC Soil Data Interoperability Experiment

Points from:

• CSIRO, AU

• Landcare Research, NZ

• ISRIC, NL (WoSIS2)

‘Three organizations providing data using the same

standard in an inter-operable manner’

Reference Collection

Work stream 2: Soil Data Brokering

(‘Raison d’etre’)

WoSIS: institutional soil info data base

(ca. 150.000; ongoing)

http://wsm.isric.org/#tourGoogle

From points to grids

SoilGrids

http://wsm.isric.org/#tourGoogle

• Automated soil information system

• Using profile data and spatial information (covariates)

• Machine learning algorithms

• 250m * 250m resolution

• Accessible through web service and mobile phone app

• Updatable

• Open data

• Moving towards crowdsourcing

• Short demo

http://www.soilgrids.org/

http://www.soilgrids.org/

Combining global and local

Some use cases

Work stream 3: Capacity Building and Advocacy

(‘Competent user community’)

Spring School

World Soil Museum

http://wsm.isric.org/

Number of visitors per year

Work stream 4: Derived Products

(‘Boosting Impact’)

Plant-available water holding capacity (mm)

Maize

Information platform for site specific blending of fertilisers

Enjoy!

www.isric.org

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