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This page contains an overview of ISRIC reports, published from 2010 onwards, as well as ISRIC technical papers. For access to reports issued before 2010, please contact us.
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ISRIC Report 2025/01: WoSIS procedures for coding and standardizing soil analytical method descriptions
ISRIC Report 2023/02: Options for harmonising soil data obtained from different sources
ISRIC Report 2023/01: WoSIS procedures for standardizing soil analytical method descriptions
ISRIC Report 2022/01: Procedures and standards in use at ISRIC WDC-Soils (ver. 2022)
ISRIC Report 2021/03: How well does Digital Soil Mapping represent soil geography? An investigation from the USA: Case Study
ISRIC Report 2019/01: Tier 1 and Tier 2 data in the context of the federated Global Soil Information System (GLOSIS)
ISRIC Report 2018/01: World Soil Information Service (WoSIS) - Towards the standardization and harmonization of world soil data
ISRIC Report 2017/01: Overview of procedures and standards in use at ISRIC WDC-Soils
ISRIC Report 2016/02: Overview of procedures and standards in use at ISRIC WDC-Soils
ISRIC Report 2016/01: Soil and Terrain database of the Republic of Malawi
ISRIC Report 2015/03: Towards the standardization and harmonization of world soil data: Procedures Manual ISRIC World Soil Information Service (WoSIS ver. 2.0)
ISRIC Report 2015/02: Root zone plant-available water holding capacity of the Sub-Saharan Africa soil, version 1.0
ISRIC Report 2015/01: World soil property estimates for broad-scale modelling (WISE30sec)
ISRIC Report 2014/01: Africa Soil Profiles Database - Version 1.2
ISRIC Report 2013/06: Modelling of soil degradation and its impact on ecosystem services globally, Part 1: A study on the adequacy of models to quantify soil water erosion for use within the IMAGE modelling framework
ISRIC Report 2013/05: Towards improved soil information for quantification of environmental, societal and economic sustainability
ISRIC Report 2013/04: Global and National Soils and Terrain Databases (SOTER)
ISRIC Report 2013/03: Africa Soil Profile Database - Version 1.1
ISRIC Report 2013/02: Towards an ISRIC World Soil Information Service (WOSIS Version 1.0)
ISRIC Report 2013/01: Global changes of net primary productivity, affected by climate and abrupt land use changes since 1981
ISRIC Report 2012/04: Global and National Soils and Terrain Digital Databases (SOTER); Procedures Manual Version 2.0 Draft
ISRIC Report 2012/03: Africa Soil Profiles Database - Version 1.0
ISRIC Report 2012/02: Global changes of remotely sensed greenness and simulated biomass production since 1981
ISRIC Report 2012/01: ISRIC-WISE derived soil properties on a 5 by 5 arc-minutes global grid (ver. 1.2)
ISRIC Report 2011/06: Global distribution of soil phosphorus retention potential
ISRIC Report 2011/04: Green Water Credits Report K13: Estimated Changes in Soil Organic Carbon in the Upper Tana, Kenya
ISRIC Report 2011/01: Overview of soil phosphorus data from a large international soil database
ISRIC Report 2011/01 + data: Overview of soil phosphorus data from a large international soil database
ISRIC Report 2010/10: A global framework of soil organic carbon stocks under native vegetation for use with the simple assessment option of the Carbon Benefits Project system (ver. 1.0)
ISRIC Report 2010/09: Green Water Credits Report K11: Soil and Terrain Database for the Upper Tana, Kenya
ISRIC Report 2010/09 Green Water Credits Report 11: Soil and terrain conditions for the Upper Tana River catchment, Kenya.
ISRIC Report 2010/08: An update of GLADA - Global Assessment of Land Degradation and Improvement
ISRIC Report 2010/07b: Soil property estimates for the Upper Tana river catchment, Kenya, derived from SOTER and WISE (version1.1)
ISRIC Report 2010/07: Soil property estimates for the Upper Tana river catchment, Kenya, derived from SOTER and WISE (version1.0)
ISRIC Report 2010/06: Inventory of P-Olsen data in the ISRIC-WISE soil database for use with QUEFTS
ISRIC Report 2010/05, (GLADA report 1d): Land Degradation and Improvement in China 2. Accounting for soils, terrain and land use change
ISRIC Report 2010/04, Green Water Credits Report K10: Impacts of Land Management Options in the Upper Tana, Kenya - Using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool - SWAT
ISRIC Report 2010/03 Green Water Credits Report K9: Land Use Map of the Upper Tana, Kenya. Based on remote sensing
ISRIC Report 2010/02, Green Water Credits Report 8: Baseline Review of the Upper Tana, Kenya
ISRIC Report 2010/01: Soil property estimates for Tunisia derived from SOTER and WISE (SOTWIS-Tunisia)
Technical Paper 30: Management options for reducing CO2 -concentrations in the atmosphere by increasing carbon sequestration in the soil
Technical Paper 29: Relation between the soil units of the FAO-UNESCO soil map of the world legend and the soil classes used in Brazilian surveys
Technical Paper 28: Soil fertility decline under sisal cultivation in Tanzania
Technical Paper 27: A global data set of soil pH properties
Technical Paper 26: World Inventory of Soil Emission Potentials. WISE 2.1. Profile Database User Manual and Coding Protocols
Technical Paper 25: Soilgraph A soil and climate data presentation and assessment program (3rd version)
Technical Paper 24: SOILIMS Laboratory Information Management System for Soil and Plant Laboratories Manual and Tutor Version 1.4
Technical Paper 23 WISE Report 3 :A Review of Soil Factors and Processes that Control Fluxes of Heat, Moisture and Greenhouse Gases
Technical Paper 22: Methodological Guidelines for Forecasting the Geochemical Susceptibility of Soils to Technogenic Pollution
Technical Paper 21: Agroclimatic Characterization of Madagascar. IRRI-Madagascar Rice Research Project
Technical Paper 20: FAO-UNESCO Soil Map of the World. (Revised Legend 1990)
Technical Paper 19: Soil Horizon Designations
Technical Paper 18: Historical Highlights of Soil Survey and Soil Classification with Emphasis on the United States, 1899-1970
Technical Paper 17: Soil Horizon Designation and Classification. A coordinate System for Defining Soil Horizons and Their Use as the Basic Elements in Soil Classification for Different Purposes.
Technical Paper 16: Comparative Classification of some Deep, Well-Drained Red Clay Soils of Mozambique
Technical Paper 15b: ISRIC Soil Information System ISIS 4.0 User manual (revised edition 1995)
Technical Paper 15: ISRIC Soil Information System, User Manual - Technical Manual. (Revised Edition1988)
Technical Paper 14: Guidelines for the Description and Coding of Soil Data. (Revised Edition 1988).
Technical Paper 14: Guidelines for the Description and Coding of Soil Data. (Revised Edition 1995).
Technical Paper 13: Proceedings of an International Workshop on the Laboratory Methods and Data Exchange Programme, 25-29 August 1986
Technical Paper 12: Problem Soils: their Reclamation and Management. Taken from: Land Reclamation and Water Management. Developments, Problems and Challenges.
Technical Paper 11: A Simplified new suction apparatus for the preparation of small-size porous plate clay specimens for X-Ray diffraction
Technical Paper 10: Aspects of the exhibition of soil monoliths and relevant information ( provisional edition)
Technical Paper 09: Procedures for Soil Analysis (6th Edition)
Technical Paper 08: Laboratory Methods and Data exchange Program for Soil Characterization, A Report of the Pilot Round II: Exchangeable bases, Base Saturation and pH
Technical Paper 07: Project of Soil Classification. (Project de Classification des Sols)
Technical Paper 06: Labaoratory Methods and Data exchange Program for Soil Characterization, A Report of the Pilot Round Part I: CEC and Texture
Technical Paper 05: The soils of the flat wetlands of the world; their distribution and their agricultural potential
Technical Paper 04: Field Extract of Soil Taxonomy. The 1975 System of Soil Classification of the U.S.D.A./S.C.S., First ed: 1980, Second ed: 1982, Reprint 1983, Reprint 1986
Technical Paper 03: A new suction apparatus for mounting clay speciments on small-size porous plates for X-ray diffraction
Technical Paper 02: The Photography of Soils and Associated Landscapes
Technical Paper 01_ES: Procedimientos para la Colección y Preservación de Perfiles de Suelo
Technical Paper 01: Procedures for the Collection and Preservation of Soil Profiles