Resources
Conference presentations
January 21, 2025
Seedling: A User-Friendly, Scalable, and Collaborative Digital Soil Mapping Workflow
Slides of a presentation by Giulio Genova at 3rd Joint Workshop of the IUSS Working Groups Digital Soil Mapping & GlobalSoilMap, Bengaluru, India, January 2025.
Seedling is a simplified R-based Digital Soil Mapping workflow developed at ISRIC - World Soil Information. The workflow starts from standardised inputs, it organises data for modelling, performs modelling with Random Forest and creates soil maps as final outputs, including pixel based uncertainty. The LSC hubs project supported the further development of the tool.
Download the software from or read the documentation at Wageningen University Gitlab.
July 1, 2024
A fun way to do spatial cataloguing and publishing
The software components implemented and improved in the LSC hubs project have been presented at the open source geospatial software conference FOSS4G Europe, Tartu, Estonia, July 2024. The slides are available via the conference website.
This presentation focusses on workflows in data management which enable maintenance of data and metadata by researchers, while sharing this information to a wider audience.
The components are maintained in github
July 1, 2024
SDI maintenance DevOps style
The software components implemented and improved in the LSC hubs project have been presented at the open source geospatial software conference FOSS4G Europe, Tartu, Estonia, July 2024. The slides are available via the conference website.
This presentation focusses on automated deployments of updates of the content and components of the hub.
The components are maintained in github
May 1, 2024
Land, Soil, Crop Information Services for Climate-Resilient Food Systems in Africa
Slides of a presentation by Michael Okoti at the Monitoring soil health and soil health investments at different scales, Africa Fertilizer & Soil Health Summit, Nairobi, Kenya, May 2024.
May 1, 2023
Land, Soil, Crop Information Services for Climate-Resilient Food Systems in Africa
Slides of a presentation by Thaisa van der Woude at the Land, Soil, Crop Information Services for Climate-Resilient Food Systems in Africa conference in 2023 at the ASARECA Agriculture Ministerial Conference, Kampala, Uganda, May 2023.
Research highlights
April 7, 2025
Mapping Soil Fertility Properties in Central Ethiopia at 100m Spatial Resolution
Wageningen University & Research PhD candidate Musefa Redi Abegaz, whose research contributes to the Land Soil Crop Information Services (LSC Hubs) project, has published his first PhD research paper in Geoderma.
This study leverages digital soil mapping to generate high-resolution 3D maps of key soil fertility properties across Central Ethiopia, covering all Shewa, Arsi, and Jimma zones.
May 1, 2023
Root zone soil water capacity for climate-smart fertiliser
Root zone soil water capacity for climate-smart fertiliser. LSC-IS fieldwork research in Ethiopia by PhD candidate Musefa Redis featured in the ISRIC World Soil Day celebration, December 2023.
