The document discusses cooperation between various global organizations working on soil issues. It describes a capacity development program to introduce digital soil mapping concepts and techniques to soil scientists. It also mentions that the Global Soil Partnership is tasked with providing support on soil carbon issues and was approached by the UNCCD to share information and contribute to improving soil carbon knowledge. It discusses collaboration between the GSP and other intergovernmental bodies on conducting a global soil organic carbon assessment.

4. The Global Soil Partnership (GSP) cooperates very closely
with various global mechanisms which address soil issues
and which require improved information collection and
sharing about the status of soils.
This cooperation is important because FAO member
countries are involved in various global activities through
monitoring and reporting on natural resources, including soils,
to align these activities to improve knowledge and
information exchange about soils.

5. The aim of this capacity development programme is to
introduce recent concepts and techniques of DSM to soil
scientists/staff who work at national soil science institutes in
soil mapping related activities. This should reflect on
developing and updating national and regional soil
information.

6. The GSP is currently tasked to provide support on soil carbon
issues. FAO and the GSP Secretariat were recently
approached by the United Nations Convention to Combat
Desertification (UNCCD) Secretariat to share information
about the GSP and the possible pathways to contribute to
improving soil carbon knowledge and data.

7. During the 5th Session of the GSP’s
Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS)
held in March 2016, collaboration between ITPS
and the Science Policy Interface (SPI) of the
UNCCD, the Intergovernmental Platform on
Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES),
and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate
Change (IPCC) was discussed.
GSP/ITPS were requested to conduct a global
SOC assessment based on country-level
spatial soil data sets, combined to a new
global SOC map.

8. February,, 2017
.. training/capacity development

10. In March 2017, We circulated
a Survey to the participants
and asked about their
background and experience
on:
GIS, Mapping, Geostatistics
and Modelling Tools

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22. https://goo.gl/TNRE4c

23. ● Hardware & Software
● R & R-Studio
● R Basics

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26. GETTING READY for the TRAINING:
https://goo.gl/JA3xrE

27. https://goo.gl/itPWHd

28. COOKBOOK MANUAL for Soil Property Mapping
https://goo.gl/3WVbEy

29. We asked countries to prepare/bring their national soil
profile/topsoil data to be used during the training week.
National Data: Point data from the soil profile and/or
topsoil databases which should be ready for spatial
analyses (Soil Property Mapping Cookbook Manual
Chapter 2)
Step by step instructions and detailed information can
be found in the GSP’s “Soil Property Mapping
Cookbook Manual - Chapter: 2-Preparation of local
soil property data”

30. National Spatial Covariates: Environmental covariates
(Soil Map, Land Cover/Land Use Maps).
ISRIC World Soil Information has established a data
repository contains raster layers of various biophysical
earth surface properties for each territory in the world. The
data can be downloaded fro ISRIC’s ftp directories;

31. ftp://gsp.isric2.org/ (user: gsp, pwd: gspisric)
or
ftp://85.214.253.67/ (user: gsp, pwd: gspisric)
Instructions and detailed information can be found in the
GSP’s “Soil Property Mapping Cookbook Manual -
Chapter: 3.6 GSOC Map - Data Repository (ISRIC, 2017)”

32. You can gon now to the following ftp sites and
download the covariates for your countries,
ftp://gsp.isric2.org/ (user: gsp, pwd: gspisric)
or
ftp://85.214.253.67/ (user: gsp, pwd: gspisric)

37. ftp://gsp.isric2.org/_GISLayer_Description.xlsx