International soil standards

Providing information on the soils of the world is an enormous task and this page provides insight about various international standards that exists on the topics of:

• Collection Management Plans
• Soil glossaries
• Soil description and sampling
• Soil classification
• Laboratory methods
• Data quality
• Standardisation/harmonisation of disparate soildata
• Digital soil mapping
• Spatial data specifications
• Soil data interoperability
• Soil-related vocabularies
• Soil proximal sensing
• OGC standards - Soil-related ISO standards
• FAIR guiding principles.

ISRIC - World Soil Informatoin collects, standardises, harmonises and publishes global soil geographic information, whereas many national, regional, local and NGO organizations provide soil information specific to their area and according to their procedures and standards. This webpage is an ongoing effort to provide a comprehensive catalogue of ‘international’ standards in the soil domain.