Soil information: continental scale

AFRICA

ASIA

• Soil and Physiographic Database for North and Central EURASIA (scale 1:5 million)
• ISRIC's soil maps for Asia (±950) - available on-line at EuDASM (European Digital Archive of Soil Maps)
• Status of Human-induced Soil Degradation in South and Southeast Asia 

AUSTRALIA / NEW ZEALAND / PACIFIC

• Australia - see under national information

CIRCUMPOLAR REGION

• Northern Circumpolar Soils Map - circumpolar map of dominant soil characteristics covering the United States, Canada, Greenland, Iceland, northern Europe, Russia, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan (scale 1:10 million)
• Northern Circumpolar Soil Atlas - this Atlas will be the first document of its kind bringing together soil data for all the northern countries in a style designed to better understand and protect soil resources in these areas

 EUROPE

• ISRIC's soil maps for Europe (±1440) - available on-line at  EuDASM (European Digital Archive of Soil Maps)
• Soil Atlas for Europe - provides access to on-line verions of the Atlas
• The European Soil Database (ESDB) - publicly available,  full vector versions of the ESDB v1.0 and ESDB v2.0
• The European Soil Database (v2 Raster Library at 1km x 1km)  - contains raster data files (ESRI GRID format) for most attributes (73 in total) of the SGDBE and PTRDB databases of the European Soil Database (distribution version 2)
• The European Soil Database v2 Raster version - 1km x 1km - publicly available  1km raster version of the vector based soil geometry ...
• European Soil Data Base (ESDB) - the main source of information for Europe from which most other data information and services are derived
• SOTER database for Central and Eastern Europe( scale 1:2.5 million)
• SOTER-based soil parameter estimates for Central and Eastern Europe (1:2.5 million)
• Soil Degradation Assessment in Central and Eastern Europe (scale 1: 2.5 million)
• Hydraulic Properties of European Soils (HYPRES) - hydraulic parameters for simulation modelling in environmental studies and in land use planning
• Soil Resources of Europe- papers from all the EU member states and three EFTA countries – Iceland, Norway and Switzerland – summarising the position regarding the detail and availability of soil information, particularly spatial data, at national level
• European Soil Portal - hosts European soil data and documentation associated to the European Soil Bureau Network and the European Commission's soil related activities
• Heavy metals in European soils - a geostatistical analysis of the FOREGS Geochemical database
• European Soil Data Center (ESDAC) - provides links to soil-related sites that provide regional and national data for Europe
  

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

• SOTER database for Latin America and the Caribbean (scale 1:5 million)
• SOTER-based soil parameter estimates for Latin America and the Caribbean (scale 1:5 million)
•  ISRIC's soil maps for Latin America and the Carribbean (±1060) - available on-line at  EuDASM (European Digital Archive of Soil Maps)
  

NORTH AMERICA

• USA - see under national information
• Canada - see under national information