
"This state-of-the-art database was established by IIASA and FAO in partnership with:
- ISRIC-World Soil Information which, together with the FAO, contributed recent regional soil and terrain databases together with the WISE soil profile database;
- The European Soil Bureau Network, which provided its major new update of soil information for Europe and northern Eurasia; and
- The Institute of Soil Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, which made available its most recent 1:1,000,000 scale Soil Map of China.
About HWSD
HWSD has two main goals:
- To increase the quantity and quality of data available by capturing data at a grid cell size of 30 arc seconds of longitude and latitude (approximately, l km);
- To harmonize and expand soil attribute information (texture, composition) with recently collected soil data."
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Suggested Data Citation
FAO/IIASA/ISRIC/ISSCAS/JRC, 2012. Harmonized World Soil Database (version 1.2). FAO, Rome, Italy and IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria.
Data Access: Please Cite data sources, following the data providers' instructions.
- Nachtergaele, f. et al (2012): Harmonized World Soil database: AO/IIASA/ISRIC/ISSCAS/JRC, 2012. Harmonized World Soil Database (version 1.2). FAO, Rome, Italy and IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria.
- Wieder, W.R., J. Boehnert, G.B. Bonan, and M. Langseth. 2014. Regridded Harmonized World Soil Database v1.2. Data set. Available on-line [http://daac.ornl.gov] from Oak Ridge National Laboratory Distributed Active Archive Center, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
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Harmonized Soil Carbon Database
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December 8, 2017 - 11:35amDennis Shea of NCAR says:
Added mention of the data set available at 0.9 cx 1.25 resolution. Plus added a few links