ABSTRACT
The soil maps of Argentina were concluded in the 1990s. This work demanded the sampling and description of more than 10,000 soil profiles during about 30 years. Although the resulting maps have been published, the soil profiles data remain scattered in different research centres and mostly only in physical support. In 2012 we started developing the Soil Information System of Argentina: SISINTA (sisinta.inta.gob.ar). The goal of this system is to safeguard soil profile data, make it available to the users, facilitate data harmonization and provide a tool to visualize the information. The system has a multi-language graphical user interface to upload and query data easily and fast. Since it has been developed under open source standards, it is able to exchange data with other soil databases and store data locally as a way to preserve data sovereignty. It has been applied to produce soil property maps, soil assessment maps, as well as support for conventional soil mapping.
