The experience of creating the RUSOTER digital databaseV.StolbovoiauthorI.Y.SavinauthorGeneral information on the Global and National Soil and Terrain Digital Data Base is presented and its structure is described. Possibilities of data transformation from Russian formats into the SOTER format are analyzed. The experience in creating the SOTER database for a pilot plot in Russia is described.1996MAIK Nauka/SpringerArticle