Soil Geographic Databases
Providing information on the soils of the world is an enormous task and continuing challenge for ISRIC — World Soil information. ISRIC collects, harmonizes and publishes global soil geographic information, whereas many national, regional, local and NGO organizations provide soil information specific to their area and according to their procedures and standards. This page is a catalogue of digital soil resources available outside our organisation.
Looking for ISRIC’s data products? Click here. These include the SoilGrids 250m predictive maps of soil properties and classes, their generalizations to 1km and 5km resolutions, the WoSIS Soil Profile Database, and the WISE v3.1 harmonized Global Soil Profile Dataset.
This page attempts to catalogue all freely-downloadable primary soils information usable in a GIS either as 'points', lines, polygons or grids ('rasters'). This compilation has been maintained first at University of Twente/ITC (1997-2014), then at Cornell University (2014-2017), and now at ISRIC by guest researcher David G. Rossiter .
Information outdated or missing? Please do not hesitate to contact us using the e-mail button at the bottom of this page.
Last update: 25-February-2025
Index: World | Europe | Asia and Eurasia | Australia, Oceania, Antarctica | Africa | North America, Central America and the Caribbean | South America | Dynamic soil status