After the release of the 2020 version of SoilGrids (see here for more details), a number of changes will happen to the soilgrids.org services and associated infrastructures. We are aware that these changes may have an impact on users of our services.
Since the sneak preview on World Soil Day 2019, ISRIC - World Soil Information has been finalizing a new set of soil property maps for the world (SoilGrids250m), incorporating comments from many experts and organizations. Numerous improvements were implemented since publication of the `2017 version’, making this a completely new product. The GIS layers can be accessed using various services.
ISRIC is preparing for a new release of SoilGrids. This involves migrating the services to a new website and host. Unfortunately, this means that soilgrids.org will be down for a couple of days until the new release goes live (planned for 4 May).
Today marks the launch of the Soil Spectroscopy programme of the Global Soil Laboratory Network (GLOSOLAN) of the Global Soil Partnership (GSP), which is based at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
In light of the coronavirus outbreak, the Spring School for 2020 has been definitely cancelled.
We took into consideration the health and well-being of our international participants as well as the uncertainty about the end of the corona crisis, and the international and local measures that may still be in place in the coming months.
The EU_H2020 CIRCASA project held their second annual meeting, 'Towards an International Research Consortium on agricultural soil carbon sequestration' , in Wageningen (March 2020).
New paper by Liu Y, Heuvelink GBM, Bai Z, He P, Xu X, Ma J and Masiliūnas D on 'Space-time statistical analysis and modelling of nitrogen use efficiency indicators at provincial scale in China' published in European Journal of Agronomy.
New paper by Aitkenhead MJ, Poggio L, Wardell-Johnson D, Coull MC, Rivington M, Black HIJ, Yacob G, Boke S and Habte M on 'Estimating soil properties from smartphone imagery in Ethiopia' in Computers and Electronics in Agriculture.
New Geoderma paper on 'Assessing countrywide soil organic carbon stock using hybrid machine learning modelling and legacy soil data in Cameroon', by Francis B.T. Silatsaa, Martin Yemefack, Fritz O. Tabi , Gerard B.M. Heuvelink and Johan G.B. Leenaars.
New paper in Geoderma on 'Extrapolation of a structural equation model for digital soil mapping ' by Angelini et al, with contributions from our colleagues Bas Kempen and Gerard Heuvelink.
