Soil portals and gateways

  • AGL portal - soil information of FAO's Land and Plant Nutrient Management Service
     
  • Bodenwelten - Informationen, Animationen und Filme rund um den Boden zur Verstärkung des Bodenbewusstsein (German site)
     
  • Community-based mapping and participatory GIS
     
  • Compendium of on-line soil information (ITC, compiled by David Rossiter)
        
  • DSSAT - Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer
     
  • EuDASM - The European Digital Archive of Soil Maps links to an on-line collection of soil and related maps from AfricaAsia, Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the United States of America, collated from ISRIC's holdings. Maps are presented full-scale, with thumbnail pictures and metadata for easy navigation
       
  • European Soil Portal - Hosts European soil data and documentation associated to the European Soil Bureau Network and the European Commission's soil related activities
     
  • European Soil Data Center (ESDAC) -the thematic centre for soil-related data in Europe
        
  • Gateway to Land and Water Information - FAO's access point to global, regional and national reports and entry point to the WWW of information on land, water and related subjects
      
  • Global Change Master Directory - a directory to Earth science data and services
       
  • Information Resources on Arid Lands - information on the lands, soils, and geomorphology of arid regions
     
  • Long-Term Soil Experiments- Global inventory of the world LTSE's  
     
  • NUTMON - portal for the NUTMON nutrient monitoring methodology, including the NUTMON toolbox 
      
  • Regional and Global Data for Global Change Research from ORNL DAAC - comprehensive metadata database of data and models on the bio-geochemical dynamics of terrestrial ecosystems.  Metadata contain links to data and models held by other data centers, including global and regional soil maps and data sets.
             
  • Soil health - Worldwide portal to information on soil health
       
  • Soil-Net , an educational resource for information on soil science
        
  • Soil resources on the Development Gateway - interactive website on food security with links on soil ;
     
  • State of the land in the USA - this site provides data and analysis on land use, soil erosion and soil quality, water quality, wetlands, and other issues regarding the conservation and use of natural resources.
     
  • TropSCORE - gateway to Tropical Soil Health Information
     
  • UNEP.net - the Environment Network
     
  • UNEP/GRID Geneva - global and regional data sets of soils and selected soil properties
     
  • World Soil Resources - the WSR office encourages and promotes the free exchange of natural resource data for the continued evolution of soils knowledge for sustainable uses and management of this life supporting resource 

  • WOSSAC - the mission of the World Soil Surveys Archive and Catalogue (WOSSAC) is to provide a secure home for soil survey reports and maps produced by British companies and surveyors overseas in the last 80 years in 250 countries, with a view to ensuring their enduring availability and protection.
       
     
    Please submit suggestions for URLs for other sites of interest to the webmaster for possible inclusion on this page.

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