ISRIC WoSIS soil profiles (ISRIC)
230,000 real soil-pit profiles — the ground truth that SoilGrids is trained on.
What this is
ISRIC's World Soil Information Service (WoSIS) standardizes soil-profile observations from physical samples worldwide. The standardized public subset is roughly 230,000 profiles, available as bulk download or through standard geospatial web services.
Why we surface it
SoilGrids is a prediction; WoSIS is what it's predicting from. Knowing where the observational layer is dense or thin tells you how much to trust the model in a given region.
What you can do with it
Shown for commercial use. Personal, research, and nonprofit use is often more permissive — switch the verdict lens on the catalog.
- Internal / individual use
- Custom or restrictive terms — we can't auto-decode this one. Read the source agreement before using, especially for commercial use, AI training, and redistribution. When in doubt, ask the provider.
- Redistribute the data
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- Republish a derivative
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- Build into a private product
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This decoder is a starting point, not legal advice. For commercial deployment, run the actual license terms past someone who reads them for a living.
Good to know
WoSIS licensing is not uniform: most records are CC-BY, but some contributors attached their own restrictions, marked per-record in the WoSIS metadata. Check the per-record license flag before commercial use or AI training — the bulk download isn't guaranteed CC-BY throughout.
○ Planned
Not in the map yet — this source is on the V1 backlog. Schema, sample, and citation slots fill in once the layer ships.