Project
GlobalSoilMap.net
Support policy and action on food and water security and food production and to support and regulate ecosystem services via the set-up of a reliable, flexible and dynamic soil health information service.
There is a need for accurate, up-to-date and spatially referenced soil information. This need has been expressed by the modelling community, land managers, policy developers and decision makers. The need coincides with a enormous leap in technologies that allow for improvements in accurately collecting and predicting soil properties.
Aim
A global consortium has been formed that aims to make a new digital soil map of the world using state-of-the-art and emerging technologies for soil mapping and predicting soil properties at fine resolution. This new global soil map will be supplemented by interpretation and functionality options that aim to assist better decisions in a range of global issues like food production and hunger eradication, climate change, and environmental degradation.
This is an initiative of the Digital Soil Mapping Working Group of the International Union of Soil Sciences IUSS.
More information can be found on www.globalsoilmap.net.