TheInternational Union of Soil Science (IUSS)- at its Seventh Congress, at Madison, Wisconsin, USA, in 1960 - recommended that soil maps of continents and large regions be published. As a follow-upFAO and Unesco decided in 1961 to prepare a Soil Map of the World at 1:5 000 000 scale. The project...
ISRIC – World Soil Information has a mission to serve the international community as custodian of global soil information. We are striving to increase awareness and understanding of soils in major global issues.
01/01/1991 The result of a symposium held at the Annual Meeting of the Soil Science Society of America, in Las Vegas, October 1989. The objective of the symposium was to establish a forum for creative purposes in developing guidelines and procedures for quantitative description of map unit composition. 270...
Landpotential.org is a global partnership committed to developing and supporting the adoption of freely available technology and tools for sustainable land use management, monitoring, and connecting people across the globe. The Land-Potential Knowledge System (LandPKS) delivers tools and...