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ISRIC - World Soil Information, also known as the International Soil Reference and Information Centre, is a science-based independent foundation.It was established in 1966, following a recommendation by the International Society of Soil Science (ISSS, now known as the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS)) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). [1]
World Soil Museum, ISRIC - World Soil Information, Wageningen campus, The Netherlands. Excavating a soil monolith (Kalimantan, Indonesia) The World Soil Museum (WSM) displays physical examples of soil profiles representing major soil types of the world, from the volcanic ash soils from Indonesia to the red, strongly weathered soils from the Amazon region.
The current vice-chair is Stephan Mantel (International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC), The Netherlands, since 2018). Chairs of the WRB working group and responsible first authors of the WRB editions are: Seppe Deckers (Belgium, 1st edition 1998), [ 5 ] Erika Michéli (Hungary, 2nd edition 2006) [ 6 ] and Peter Schad (Germany ...
The EuDASM is a common platform established by Joint Research Centre in Italy of the European Commission and the International Soil Reference and Information Centre(ISRIC) of Wageningen University in The Netherlands to store soil and related maps in digital format and to provide free access to the global community (Researchers, University ...
The Global Soil Partnership, [2] GSP, was initiated by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and its members with the hope to improve governance of the limited soil resources of the planet in order to guarantee healthy and productive soils for a food-secure world, as well as support other essential ecosystem services.
Digital soil mapping (DSM) in soil science, also referred to as predictive soil mapping [1] or pedometric mapping, is the computer-assisted production of digital maps of soil types and soil properties. Soil mapping, in general, involves the creation and population of spatial soil information by the use of field and laboratory observational ...
Trump's three-day state visit in 2019 was cast at the time as a chance to celebrate Britain's "special relationship" with the U.S, boost trade links in a post-Brexit world, and reaffirm security ...
A fluvisol in the World Reference Base for Soil Resources (WRB) [1] is a genetically young soil in alluvial deposits. Apart from river sediments, they also occur in lacustrine and marine deposits. [2] Fluvisols correlate with fluvents and fluvaquents of the USDA soil taxonomy. The good natural fertility of most fluvisols and their attractive ...