International Soil Reference and Information Centre
It was established in 1966, following a recommendation by the International Society of Soil Science (ISSS, now known as the International Union of Soil Sciences (IUSS)) and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).ISRIC responsibilities include gathering, compilation, and distribution of soil information at global, national, and regional levels.Its objectives are organized into four main areas: Setting Standards and References, Soil Information Provisioning, Capacity Building and Advocacy, and Development of Derived Products.[2] The organization's reference collection encompasses a range of materials, including country-specific reports, maps, and slides, as well as soil specimens (including monoliths, samples, thin sections, and hand specimens).[4] ISRIC's main open access databases include WoSIS,[5] a large database of quality-assessed and standardised soil profile data for the world, that has been used for producing soil property maps at 250 m resolution, with quantified uncertainty,for the world using state-of-the-art machine learning (SoilGrids).
Building of the World Soil Museum, Wageningen campus
