As one of the two non-European partners, the CAS Institute of Soil Science (ISS) will participate in the e-SOTER, a project on global soil observing system funded by EU Framework Program 7 (FP7).
The kick-off meeting for the euro 3.3 million project was held at the World Soil Information (ISRIC), Wageningen, The Netherlands, from 11 to 12 September.
As part of the FP7 project Global Earth Observing System of System, according to experts, the 14 partner-consortium will strive to overcome the current shortcomings of SOTER (Soil and Terrain Database) and form a platform that can be extended world-wide by using RS data for validation and correction of existing survey data; generating new data surfaces; improving the quality of applications; and providing a freely accessible web service
ISS has kept a close cooperation tie with ISRIC, the coordinator of the project, over the past 25 years.
