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Theme <Soil>

• Soil inventories, providing a one-off assessment of soil conditions and/or properties at a point in time, and soil monitoring, providing a series of assessments showing how soil conditions and/or properties change over time.

• Soil mapping, enabling to identify areas with similar soil genesis and soil properties.

• Thematic maps derived from soil information

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Way of working

• Two parallel processes:– Based on existing databases, ISO norms, EU projects

development of an UML model.– Description of Use Cases which were used to calibrate and

validate the soil model.

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Need for Soil Data

• Increasing• Prevention and mitigation of soil degradation• Optimalisation sustainable agricultural and forest production• Mitigation effects climate change• Mitigation effects soil contamination• Applications: very few at an European level; at national scale

probably many hundreds. More than 100 User requirements and Reference Material were submitted.

• No EU directive is directly dealing with soils; European Soil Thematic Strategy adopted.

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Use Cases described• Agri-Environmental Indicators:

– Use Case Environmental Indicator Soil Erosion– Use Case Environmental Indicator Soil Quality– Use Case Environmental Indicator Contaminated Sites

• Thematic maps– Land irrigation suitability in Navarra (Spain)– Development of methodologies for soil salinity surveillance in the middle Ebro basin

(Spain)– MARS project (Monitoring Agricultural Resources)– Restrictions for N and P in agriculture– Calculation threshold trace elements– Use of Soil Scape Viewer– Establishment Less Favoured Areas (France)

• Contaminated sites– Contaminated Land Register Austria– Use Case drinking water and soil contamination– Use Case Ecology and contamination– Use Case Contamination in relation to property

• Soil Monitoring– Use Case State of soil in Europe

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Use cases and legislation

Use Cases

Agri-Environmental Indicators:

-    Use Case Environmental Indicator Soil Erosion

-    Use Case Environmental Indicator Soil Quality

-    Use Case Environmental Indicator Contaminated Sites

Thematic maps

-    Land irrigation suitability in Navarra (Spain)

-    Development of methodologies for soil salinity surveillance in the middle Ebro basin (Spain)

-    yield forecasting within the MARS project

-    Restrictions for N and P in agriculture

-    Calculation threshold trace elements

-    Use of Soil Scape Viewer

-    Establishment Less Favoured Areas (France)

Contaminated sites

-    Contaminated Land Register Austria

-    Use Case drinking water and soil contamination

-    Use Case Ecology and contamination

-    Use Case Property and contamination

Soil Monitoring

-    Use Case state of soil in Europe

Directives                                      

CAP. Council regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy.

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Council Directive 91/676/EEC of 12 December 1991 concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates form agricultural sources.

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Directive 200/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy.

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Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council. Energy from renewable resources.

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Directive 86/278/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council. Sludge Directive.

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Directive 1999/31/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 April 1999 on the landfill and waste.

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Still under discussion: Less Favourite Areas (LFA) Intermediate areas. This regulation is aimed at better targeting of natural handicap payments COM (2009) 161.

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Proposed Soil framework Directive             ●             ● ● ● ●    

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Soil model

• Core soil model• Modeled 4 use cases to show how the core can be extended

so that these cases are able to function.

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Core model

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Major real world phenomena modelled

• Soil profiles• Soil sites, soil plots, soil samples• Soil delineated areas (determination based on certain soil

characteristics)• Soil characteristics changing over time. Soil monitoring.• Soil contamination

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Thematic maps

Monitoring

Soil maps

Soil profiles

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Challenges met during modelling

• Scale depending items: introduction soil complex• Not all national soil classification systems are compatible with

the international soil classification system WRB (which is adopted as the international standard)

• DIS ISO 19156:2010 (Observation and Measurements) was still under development during modeling work.

• All Use Cases are based on the highest level of detail to be found in the profile descriptions.

• Detailing the core.

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Questions to be answered during testing

• Is the model applicable in praxis?• Makes the level of detail sense?• Are elements forgotten or too abundant?

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Thanks for your attention