ISRIC - World Soil Information Database



© European Communities, 1995-2007Since its beginning in 1966, ISRIC - World Soil Information has built up a collection of more than 20.000 articles, country reports, books and maps with emphasis on the developing countries. The subject emphasis is on soils, but related geographic information on climate, geology, geomorphology, vegetation, land use, and land suitability is also important. The map collection contains over 6000, mainly small-scale (1:250.000 or smaller) maps. more...

October 27, 2008

Soter

The e-SOTER project, September 2008 until February 2012, is a European contribution for a global soil observing system as part of the Global Earth Observing System of System (GEOSS). The kick-off meeting has been held at ISRIC, Wageningen, from 11 to 12 September, 2008. The EU Framework Programme 7 (FP7) is funding the research through a grant of €2.6 million. Coordinated by ISRIC –World Soil Information, it brings together 12 research organizations from Europe as well as 2 from non-European countries. For more info see Isric website.

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