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Soil Organic Carbon Mapping: GSOC Map Cookbook Manual

Year of publication 2017

Pages 180 p.

Author Brus, D.;Hengl, T.;Heuvelink, G.;Hiederer, R.;et al.

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Category Manual / guide

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This cookbook provides generic methodologies and the technical steps to produce a SOC map. This includes step-by-step guidance for developing 1 km grids for SOC stocks, as well as for the preparation of local soil data, the compilation and pre-processing of ancillary spatial data sets, upscaling methodologies, and uncertainty assessments. Guidance is mainly specific to soil carbon data, but also contains many generic sections on soil grid development due to its relevance for other soil propertie s. The main focus of the guidance is on the upscaling of SOC stocks in the GSOCMap and as such the cookbook supplements the “GSP Guidelines for sharing national data/information to compile a Global Soil Organic Carbon (GSOC) map”.

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