Year of publication
2002
Excerpt
In 1997, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IASSA), Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and the (International Soil Reference and Information Centre (ISRIC) identified the need for refinement of the agro-edaphic element in the revision of FAO's Agro-Ecological Zones (AEZ)methodology and in the IIASA's Land Use Change and Land Cover project for Europe and Northern Eurasia(LUC) The resulting study was based on the analysis of 4353 soil profiles held in version 1.0 of ISRIC's World Inventory of Soil Emission Potential (WISE) database. It led to the development of a set of files holding 'derived soil data for use in global and regional AEZ studies'. The study further identified several; geographic,taxonomic and soil physico-chemical gaps, showing the persisting need for expansion the set of soil profile data available for this type of analyses.
The current study uses all profiles held in tghe |WISE version 1.0, to which have been added profiles extracted from currently available soil and terrain (SOTER) data bases as well as new data from the literature . The corresponding data sets holds physical and chemical attributes for over 9600 soil profiles.
The current study uses all profiles held in tghe |WISE version 1.0, to which have been added profiles extracted from currently available soil and terrain (SOTER) data bases as well as new data from the literature . The corresponding data sets holds physical and chemical attributes for over 9600 soil profiles.