Today was the kick-off meeting for the Soil4Africa project. Funded by the Horizon 2020 programme of the European Union, Soils4Africa will put in place by 2024 an Open-data Soil Information System (SIS). The SIS will enable farmers, agri-businesses, scientists, and policymakers in their efforts towards sustainable intensification of agriculture and boosting food security; by improving the quality and availability of African soil data. ISRIC is leading the Soils4Africa consortium.

The Soils4Africa project aims to:

New paper by Andri Baltensweiler, Gerard B.M. Heuvelink, Marc Hanewinkel and Loren Walther on 'Microtopography shapes soil pH in flysch regions across Switzerland' published in Geoderma.

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New paper by Feng Liu, David G.Rossiter, Gan-Lin Zhang and De-ChengLi on 'A soil colour map of China' published in Geoderma.

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Today we released an expanded webtool for visualising, querying and downloading of world soil data. The initial version, released in early 2020, focused on a new series of soil property maps generated using SoilGrids. In addition to this, the expanded version also presents the underpinning soil profile data as derived from WoSIS.

ISRIC’s Soil Data Hub, our central location for searching and downloading digital soil data from around the world, has recently been updated in collaboration with GeoCat. The service is provided by ISRIC in its role of World Data Center for Soils, a regular member of the ICS World Data System.

New paper in EJSS on ‘Machine learning in space and time for modelling soil organic carbon change’ by Gerard B. M. Heuvelink, Marcos E. Angelini, Laura Poggio, Zhanguo Bai, Niels H. Batjes, Rik van den Bosch, Deborah Bossio, Sergio Estella, Johannes Lehmann, Guillermo F. Olmedo, and Jonathan Sanderman. more

New paper by Laura Poggio (ISRIC), Alessandro Gimona, Inge Aalders, Jane Morrice and Rupert Hough (James Hutton Institute) on ‘Legacy data for 3D modelling of peat properties with uncertainty estimation in Dava bog – Scotland’ published in Geoderma Regional.

ISRIC would like to congratulate Professor A. (Tom) Veldkamp, valued member of the ISRIC Managing Board, with his new appointment as the Rector Magnificus of the University of Twente.

As indicated earlier, services for SoilGrids version 2017 have been discontinued in view of the new release of SoilGrids version 2020.Data for the superseded SoilGrids version 2017 will remain available as geotiff at: https://files.isric.org/soilgrids/former/2017-03-10/data/ (Webdav service).