About the Authors

Tomislav Hengl

tom.hengl@isric.org

Affiliation ISRIC — World Soil Information, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Jorge Mendes de Jesus

Affiliation ISRIC — World Soil Information, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Gerard B. M. Heuvelink

Affiliation ISRIC — World Soil Information, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Maria Ruiperez Gonzalez

Affiliation ISRIC — World Soil Information, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Milan Kilibarda

Affiliation Faculty of Civil Engineering, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

Aleksandar Blagotić

Affiliation GILab Ltd, Belgrade, Serbia

Wei Shangguan

Affiliation School of Atmospheric Sciences, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China

Marvin N. Wright

Affiliation Institut für Medizinische Biometrie und Statistik, Lübeck, Germany

Xiaoyuan Geng

Affiliation Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, Ottawa (Ontario), Canada

Bernhard Bauer-Marschallinger

Affiliation Department of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

Mario Antonio Guevara

Affiliation University of Delaware, Newark (DE), United States of America

Rodrigo Vargas

Affiliation University of Delaware, Newark (DE), United States of America

Robert A. MacMillan

Affiliation LandMapper Environmental Solutions Inc., Edmonton (Alberta), Canada

Niels H. Batjes

Affiliation ISRIC — World Soil Information, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Johan G. B. Leenaars

Affiliation ISRIC — World Soil Information, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Eloi Ribeiro

Affiliation ISRIC — World Soil Information, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Ichsani Wheeler

Affiliation Envirometrix Inc., Wageningen, the Netherlands

Stephan Mantel

Affiliation ISRIC — World Soil Information, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Bas Kempen

Affiliation ISRIC — World Soil Information, Wageningen, the Netherlands

Competing Interests

Aleksandar Blagotić is employee and web-developer of GILAB DOO. There are no patents, products in development or marketed products to declare. This does not alter our adherence to all the PLOS ONE policies on sharing data and materials.

Author Contributions

Conceptualization: TH JMJ GBMH MK WS MAG RAM JGBL IW BK. Data curation: MRG WS XG RAM NHB JGBL SM. Formal analysis: TH GBMH MK WS MNW BK. Funding acquisition: TH GBMH. Investigation: TH JMJ GBMH MRG WS BK. Methodology: TH JMJ GBMH MRG MK WS MNW BBM RAM SM BK. Project administration: TH JMJ MK. Resources: JMJ MK AB BBM ER. Software: TH JMJ MRG MK AB WS MNW ER BK. Supervision: TH GBMH. Validation: MRG XG MAG RV RAM NHB JGBL ER IW SM. Visualization: TH JMJ AB MK ER. Writing – original draft: TH JMJ GBMH WS MNW BBM RAM NHB IW BK. Writing – review & editing: TH JMJ GBMH MK WS MNW BBM RAM NHB IW BK.