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© European Communities, 2004 Towards a Multi-scale European Soil Information System M. Van Liedekerke, P. Panagos, L. Montanarella (Joint Research Centre) N. Filippi (Regione Emilia-Romagna, DG Ambiente) Contact: Marc Van Liedekerke European Commission • DG Joint Research Centre Insitute for Environment and Sustainability Tel. +39 0332 785179 • Fax +39 0332 During the last years the need for a coherent approach to soil protection has come on the political agenda in Europe; it was introduced as one of the thematic strategies within the Community’s 6th Environment Action Programme. In 2006 a proposal for a European Soil Framework Directive was made which includes the requirement for data collection of various types of soil related policy- relevant data by Member States, allowing policy-makers to assess the state of soils at European level. The creation of European soil datasets is not new. The European Soil Database (ESDB) covering EU-25 has been developed jointly with European partners and is the only harmonized coverage of digital soil information for Europe. It is the result of a complex and time-consuming undertaking, due to the vast heterogeneity of soil data in countries. In the light of updates to such a database and of collecting data in relation to the upcoming SFWD, simplification is needed through a suitable technical framework. One of the INSPIRE ideas is to conduct reporting and analysis of environmental information on the basis of a harmonized and hierarchical system of grids with a common point of origin and a standardized location and size of grid cells. This system constitutes a suitable framework for the building of a nested system of soil data and facilitates interoperability through a common coordinate reference system, a unique grid coding system, a set of detailed and standardized metadata and an exchangeable and open format. http://eusoils.jrc.it many soil property maps – vector or grid – can be derived Q: How to update each map? How to assemble new soil data maps ? A: Through the exchange of standardized grids; each grid represents a soil property ; each cell within a grid is filled with a value for that soil property unique cell cell-code Lombardy region comune or province
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Towards a Multi-scale European Soil Information SystemM. Van Liedekerke, P. Panagos, L. Montanarella (Joint Research Centre)
N. Filippi (Regione Emilia-Romagna, DG Ambiente)
Contact: Marc Van Liedekerke
European Commission • DG Joint Research Centre
Insitute for Environment and Sustainability
Tel. +39 0332 785179 • Fax +39 0332 786394
E-mail: [email protected]
During the last years the need for a coherent approach to soil protection has come on the political agenda in Europe; it was introduced as one of the thematic strategies within the Community’s 6th Environment Action Programme.
In 2006 a proposal for a
European Soil Framework Directive
was made which
includes the requirement for data collection of various types of soil related policy-relevant data by Member States, allowing policy-makers to assess the state of soils at European level.
The creation of European soil datasets is not new. The
European Soil Database (ESDB)covering EU-25 has been developed jointly with European partners and is the only harmonized coverage of digital soil information for Europe. It is
the result of a complex and time-consuming
undertaking, due to the vast heterogeneity of soil data in countries.
In the light of updates to such a database and of collecting data
in relation to the upcoming SFWD,
simplification is needed through a suitable technical framework.
One of the INSPIRE ideas is to conduct
reporting and analysis of environmental information on the basis of a harmonized and hierarchical system of grids
with a common point of origin and a standardized location and size of grid cells.
This system constitutes a suitable framework for the
building of a nested system of soil data and facilitates
interoperability
through a common coordinate reference system, a unique grid coding system, a set of detailed and standardized metadata and an exchangeable and open format.
http://eusoils.jrc.it
many soil property maps – vector or grid –can be derived
Q: How to update each map? How to assemble new soil data maps ?
A: Through the exchange of standardized grids; each grid represents a soil property ; each cell within a grid is filled with a value for that soil property
unique cell cell-code
Lombardy region
comune or province
