Development of Soil Survey Interpretations

Klingebiel, A. A.

doi:10.2136/sh1991.3.0053

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“…The data-producing organization itself was often a principal user of the data, mainly for farm planning, but also offered interpreting on request for other uses. However, it was soon appreciated that interpreted information would reach a wider user base, and this became part of some organizations' activities (Klingebiel 1991). In recent years there has been increasing demand for soil geographical information from governmental agencies, national governments officers, consultants, and researchers dealing with a wide range of new applications (e.g.…”

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Digital soil resource inventories: status and prospects

Rossiter¹

2004

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This article presents an inventory of digital soils data and supporting information available or publicized on the World Wide Web. The amount and quality of digital soil survey information at global, national, regional, and local scales is increasing dramatically. Some is freely available on-line, some is available on CD-ROM and only publicized, not distributed, on the Web. The world is completely mapped at small scale. Many regions are covered by medium-scale inventories, especially using the SOTER methodology. Largescale digital data are limited to the USA, Canada, Australia and Europe, but there is discrepancy with respect to their philosophies of public access to foundation data such as soil maps. Remaining problems include the lack of metadata, limited interpetations for professionals who are not soil specialists, and geodesic incompatibility with other digital data. The frequent reorganization of websites leads, at best, to user frustration and, at worst, to the disappearance of information.

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