ISRIC - World Soil Information is an independent foundation and the ICSU accredited World Data Centre for Soils (WDC-Soils). It was founded in 1964 through the International Soil Science Society (ISSS) and United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). It has a mandate to serve the international community with information about the world’s soil resources to help addressing major global issues.

ISRIC operates on three priority areas:

soil data and soil mapping
application of soil data in global development issues
training and education

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Soil Gallery

More about soils in the museum

Current themes

Web based soil maps

ISRIC develops a range of web-based digital soil maps, for scientists, policy makers and land users

Temporary soil museum open

Forty soil profiles are now on show at the temporary World Soil Museum location in the Gaia building. Visitors can learn about the main soil types in the Netherlands and get an impression of the enormous variation of soils in the world.

25.000 articles and 8000 maps

Do you need soil information of Amsterdam, Zimbabwe, Asia or the whole world? ISRIC’s library has built up a collection of around 8000 (digitized) maps and 15.000 reports and books.

News

16/May/2013

Interim management

The Managing Board of ISRIC – World Soil Information congratulates Dr Prem Bindraban on his new position as Executive Director of the Virtual Fertilizer Research Center, Washington (DC), as of 15^th June 2013. The Board wishes him all the best in achieving his goal to “make a more tangible contribution to resolving food insecurity in the world.”

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13/May/2013

Digital exchange of soil information across the globe requires standardisation

Digital exchange of soil information across the globe requires standardisation. The IUSS working group on Soil Information Standards convened at ISRIC – World Soil Information to discuss different regional data exchange languages (Inspire ML, AusNZ-ML, and SoterML) and their rationale. The meeting (6-8 May 2013) was attended by invited soil scientist from Australia, New Zeeland, United Kingdom, Germany and the Netherlands.

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15/Apr/2013

New generation soil property maps for Africa

ISRIC has now launched a new type of freely accessible soil property maps for Africa. The maps contain predictions of seven soil properties at six standard depths at 1 km resolution

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