WoSIS - Upcoming Datasets
The following organisations have generously shared soil profile data that is currently being processed for integration into WoSIS. These datasets are undergoing harmonisation and quality control before being added to the database. Upon completion, these contributors will be formally recognised on our WoSIS Contributors page, and their datasets will be made available through WoSIS products according to the terms of their respective data sharing agreements. Category A refers to the data that will be made available in WoSIS, and Category B to data with a more closed license, to be used without ISRIC sharing the geo-location data, for more information see WoSIS_Contributers.
Category A (public)
Includes profile data standardised according to regular WoSIS workflow: these data will be made publicly available via ‘wosis-latest’
Argentina
- Soil data collected for assessing carbon stocks in northern Patagonia (Fröjd et al., 2022).
- Soil data collected for assessing carbon stocks in the high mountain permafrost zone of the semi-arid Central Andes (Kuhry et al., 2022).
Canada
Colombia
- Top soil data from Araujo-Carrillo et al., (2021)
Equador
Harmonised Soil Database of Ecuador (Armas et al., 2022)
Ecuadorian páramo SOC (Thompson et al., 2021
Ethiopia
- Soil data collected for assessing the soil forming factors of High-Altitude Mountains in the Rift Valley (Sisay et al.,2023)
Ethiopia & Malawi
- Cereal grain mineral micronutrient and soil chemistry data from GeoNutrition surveys in Ethiopia and Malawi (Kumssa et al., 2022)
Gabon
- Farralitic Soil Data (Musadji et al., 2024)
Germany
- German Agricultural Soil Inventory (Poeplau et al., 2020)
India
Soil Series of Maharashtra (Challa, O., 1999. Soil series of Maharashtra (Vol. 79). National Bureau of Soil Survey & Land Use Planning.)
Shrink-Swell Soils (Lal et al., 1988)
International
Global dataset of Tidal Marsh SOC data (Maxwell et al., 2023)
Tidal Marsh SOC data (Maxwell et al., 2023)
Israel
- Soil profile data (Ministry of Agriculture, Isreal)
Italy
- Italian Soil Information System (L’Abate et al., (2011))
Martinique
- Soil data on soil organic carbon content and stock (Barthès et al., 2023)
Nigeria
- Soil profile data - National Legacy data and IITA project sites (Africageoportal.com)
Tanzania
- Data from 2016 yield survey (Masuki et al., 2016)
United States of America
- Soil Profiles (Bailey, 2024)
Kenya
- Day 0 and day 7 data from Njoroge, (2019), PhD thesis ‘Feed the crop, not the soil! Explaining variability in maize yield responses to nutrient applications in smallholder farms of western Kenya’
Category B (‘restricted’)
Includes profile data standardised according to the regular WoSIS workflow. However, based on our data-sharing agreements with the data providers, the standardised data themselves can only be used by ISRIC WDC-Soils to generate aggregated products such as SoilGrids predictions (i.e., output as a result of advanced data processing). As such, B-type point data are not publicly available, only the ‘derived products’ (visualisations, maps) themselves.
Finland
- Biosoil data for Finland (National Resources Institute)
Notes and general conditions
a) As indicated, soil data shared for consideration in WoSIS were ‘collated’ my many individuals and in many different countries. Regrettably, we can impossibly acknowledge all these contributors individually (e.g., field surveyors, laboratory personnel, soil experts, database experts). Therefore, we do this largely in a generic way by citing the source data sets. For example, databases such as WISE, AfSP and SOTER were compiled in collaboration with numerous partners; as far as possible these partners have been listed/acknowledged in the technical reports that accompany the respective databases.
b) New data contributions will be processed as soon as possible and this generally in sequence of their receipt at ISRIC. We apologise if your submissions have not yet been processed/listed here or if they have been cited wrongly.
Further, in addition to the above, in order to provide additional soil depth /thickness observations for an upcoming SoilGrids250m study on “Global SOC stocks” we have extracted subsets (with only the geolocation and horizon depth (upper and lower limits) for selected datasets: for sources see here. Note that the full datasets, with their licenses, will be ingested in WoSIS as soon as possible.
c) The source data provided for consideration in WoSIS cannot be-redistributed to third parties based on our license agreements with the data providers.
d) We value data security and proper acknowledgement. If you would like to contribute yur data, please send us a signed copy of the data sharing agreement (download template) when submitting your data. The procedure for contributing soil profile data to WoSIS is described on a specific webpage. All data submitted will be evaluated for their suitability for inclusion and standardisation in WoSIS. Irrespective of the license category, the source data will be processed using the same procedures.
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Last updated on 2026-01-27