1. European Summer School on Soil Survey
Experiences with WRB:
1:1,000,000 scale Soil Map for Europe
Bob Jones
John Hollis
Luca Montanarella
European Summer School on Soil Survey
Institute for Environment & Sustainability
JRC Ispra
21-25 July 2003

2. European Soil Database
(scale 1:1,000,000)
World Reference Base for Soil Resources classification (1998)

3. European
Soil Database
WRB classification
(scale 1:1,000,000)

4. Conversion of
FAO CEC (1985)
Soil Name
(Type) to WRB
(1998)

5. FAO
(CEC85)
to WRB
(1998)

6. FAO
(CEC85)
to WRB
(1998)

7. FAO
(CEC85)
to WRB
(1998)

8. Histosols
Podzols
Andosols
Gleysols
Vertisols
Solonetz
Chernozems
Cambisols
Umbrisols
Andosols
Calcisols

9. European Soil Information System 2003-4
Scale 1:1,000,000
WRB modifications - transfer to version 4.0
New soil map of Sweden in preparation
New coverage for Austria received
Revise Italy using Ecopedologica
Mediterranean Basin? Maroc, Algeria, Lebanon, Jordan, Israel, Syria
Build distributed database at JRC … in collaboration with ESBnet
Thematic Strategy on Soil Protection
Scale 1;250,000 and the needs of Soil Monitoring