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Digital Soil Assessmentfrom data to information and knowledgeGSP Meeting Rome March 2012Thomas MayrNational Soil Resources InstituteCranfield University Digital soil assessment for class and property information Rationalisation and harmonisation of soil legacy data (Jack Hannam) Soil information systems meeting stakeholder requirements (Steve Hallett Soil mapping, enabling the identification of areas of land for optimal management purposes.Soil inventories, providing soil condition assessment of soil conditions, and soil monitoring, providing assessments showing soil conditions varying in time. Soil thematic mapping, providing for policyrelevant maps for soil protection and environmental reporting. From data, to information and knowledgeSoils Data For Who and For What??INSPIRE Data Specification on soil Soil MappingThe Challenge 1:250,000 soil map for the Republic of Ireland40 % coverage field mappingNo national soil classification systemThe SolutionRationalisation and harmonisation of legacy soil mapsStratification of landscapePredictive MappingValidation Stratification Predictive Mapping Validation LithosolRendzinaBrown E Brown E Gleyic- gley Brown E stagnic - Luvisol Luvi_gleyic-gley Luvi_stagnic-stagnogley Brown podzolic Brown podzolic - podzol Brown podzolic gleyic- podzol gley Brown podzolic stagnic- podzolic PodzolStagnogleyGley Alluvial Brown 111211311312314411412414511511512514611711721811112212312721315412721711512513621622612712722812113213313711413712513611621731723813214314712414514612622724215315631731321632322323 Soil mapping, enabling the identification of areas of land for optimal management purposes.Soil inventories, providing soil condition assessment of soil conditions, and soil monitoring, providing assessments showing soil conditions varying in time. Soil thematic mapping, providing for policyrelevant maps for soil protection and environmental reporting. From data, to information and knowledgeSoils Data For Who and For What??INSPIRE Data Specification on soil Soil inventoriesThe ChallengeMapping of carbon stocksThe SolutionDepth functions for characterising organic carbonand bulk density Predictive mapping of coefficients Inverse Power Function for BD: b xa xf 1 )( Bulk density Power function for SOC: bxaxf)( Soil organic carbon Soil mapping, enabling the identification of areas of land for optimal management purposes.Soil inventories, providing soil condition assessment of soil conditions, and soil monitoring, providing assessments showing soil conditions varying in time. Soil thematic mappingproviding for policyrelevant maps for soil protection and environmental reporting. From data, to information and knowledgeSoils Data For Who and For What??INSPIRE Data Specification on soil Thematic mappingThe ChallengeBiomass production potentialThe SolutionRationalisation and harmonisationStratificationstep mapping approachPedotransfer functions and yield models to estimate biomass production Soil class mapping Primary property mapping Biomass mapping Soil FunctionsThe ChallengeMultifunctionality of soilsThe SolutionDigital Soil MappingIndividual soil functions Multifunctionality of soils Soil functionsSoil Functions mapping Winter cereal productionNorthern Spruce Suitability Grass SuitabilityPesticide Leaching ultifunctionalityof soils Soil MultifunctionalityBiomass productionEnvironmental InteractionsBiodiversityCultural heritageetc.. SummaryThere is still a lot of life in legacy data “bootson the ground”LixicVerticFerralsol(Ferric, RhodicNeed more “” in “pedometricsAny Digital Soil Mapping programme will fail if it is not supported by pedologists/surveyors