Long story short:

• 1930's: first soil surveys
• 1970's and 1980's: official national soil survey program (Radam Brasil)
• 2010's: 9000 soil observations in the Brazilian Soil Information System (BDSolos)

In comparison (Arrouays et al. 2017):

• Australia: 290 000
• France: 64 123
• Mexico: 22 430

• Centralized repository, built on previous work of BDSolos, for storing open soil data and serving it in a standardized and harmonized format.

• Quality of legacy soil data: check coordinates for positional accuracy and estimate missing ones, and assess soil property data correctness.

• Participation of pedometricians, pedologists and, most importantly, soil students.

• Promote a cultural change towards a more open and collaborative soil science in Brazil.

Download the data at http://www.ufsm.br/febr/dados/

Contact: alessandrorosa@utfpr.edu.br