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Final Meeting topic: "Towards Global Soil Information: activities within the GEO Task Global Soil Data
Venue: Rome, Italy
Dates: 20-23 March 2012

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in the framework of the Global Soil Partnership, together with ISRIC-World Soil Information, coordinator of the EU-funded e-SOTER, organized the Global Soil Partnership workshop:
"Towards Global Soil Information: Activities within the GEO Task Global Soil Data"

The objective of the workshop was to review the state of the art of tools and techniques for mapping soils at global and regional scales as an input for defining future activities under the implementation of the Global Soil Partnership.

The meeting concluded that the e-SOTER project was successfully completed and that a wealth of information was gathered during the project, both in the selected study areas and for Europe overall. It was also decided that the eSOTER findings would be applied for the whole of Europe at 1:1 million scale, which would serve as input for a new version of the Harmonized World Soil Database.

The present workshop report summaries the proceedings of the GSP workshop held at FAO headquarters in Rome from 20th March to 23rd March 2012. The objective of the workshop was to discuss in particular the various aspects of global soil information (Pillar 4 of the GSP) and the related information gathered by the e-SOTER project



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