1.Introduction to the ASP Bangkok Workshop
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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.
1.Introduction to the ASP Bangkok Workshop
- 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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- 26. GETTING READY for the TRAINING: https://goo.gl/JA3xrE
- 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)