AGRICULTURAL SOILS RESEARCH DATA IN TASMANIA, AUSTRALIA;POLICIES, COLLABORATION AND SHARING

Sustainable Land Use & Information Management, DPIPWE

Agricultural Soil (research) Data – mainly spatial – maps, reports, geo-referenced chemical data, physical data, morphological data, archived physical samples

Custodians: Department of Primary Industries, Parks Water and Environment, Tasmania (DPIPWE)

Sustainable Land Use and Information Management Section

ROLE OF STATE GOVERNMENT

2

• Soil Mapping• Land Capability Mapping• Land Suitability Mapping• Land Use Mapping• Soil Condition Monitoring• Vulnerable Soils Mapping• Research Trials

(production and protection)

A main focus……..Providing Spatial Data forUse in Agricultural or Environmental Research (Modelling)

CONTEXT - TASKS

3

SOIL DATA COLLECTION AND STORAGE STANDARDS

4

• Soil Data Collected and applied to National Standards and Guidelines (Linkages with FAO, but adapted to Australia’s unique soils and terrain)

• Nationally Consistent Database Format (PC_SITES)• NATA Accredited Laboratories and analyses• Ensures interoperability

We are now encouraging other organisations to have all soil agricultural research data collected to these standards in Tasmania, geo-referenced, and uploaded digitally to our soil database, as part of the Natural Values Atlas of Tasmania, and make publically available as part of open data policy.

e.g. Universities, consultants, Forestry, NRM Regional Projects and Collaborators

SOIL DATABASE

5

New Soils Database – integrated with other natural values datasetsPublically accessible – downloadable soil dataStructure compatible with CSIRO Land & Water – ASRIS soils data

Using new database as a ‘carrot’ to encourage use of standards and correct formats, and as data storage and retrieval facility

Other agencies, consultants and Universities get the benefit of using other data, storing data, and being able to extract it when needed in a useable and error-checked format

DPIPWE gets the benefit of obtaining data (with some restrictions), and having it collected in a useable format, and integrated into digital soil and land suitability models

Promotes data sharing and better use of resources

SOILS DATABASE INTEROPERABILITY AND SHARING

6

STANDARDS AND COLLABORATION

7

ASRIS Standards for spatial soil data

Download and Viewing Portal

ACLEP – Australian Collaborative Land Evaluation Program – support, advice, funding, standards and consistency across the country

Linkage between Federal Government and States

Overseen by NCST (National Representative Committee), CSIRO

SPATIAL DATA DELIVERY - TASMANIA

8

www.thelist.tas.gov.au Viewing, Overlay, Download of Spatial (Open)

DataUnder Creative Commons

Commonality• Technically open – discoverable, different formats, including machine readable• Legally open – limited restriction on use, easy to understand what the restrictions are

For Land Tasmania – free

• Foundation Datasets - Address, Cadastre, Coastline, Contours, Hydrography, Points of Interest, Survey Control, Digital Elevation Model,Transport

• Administrative – locality, suburb, LGA’s• Reserves – WHA, state parks and reserves, LGA reserves• Spatial Soils Data – Maps and Point Source Profile Information

• Easy access via awarded LIST infrastructure• Minimal restriction on use• Land Tasmania spatial data free

SPATIAL DATA - LISTMAP

92014 Technical Excellence Award

ACCESSING LAND TASMANIA’S OPEN DATA

10

• Creative Commons• Limited restriction & easily

understood• Always protects copyright

www.thelist.tas.gov.au• Multiple access points, formats

• LISTdata – central discovery portal

- data.thelist.tas.gov.au-

data.thelist.tas.gov.au/opendata/Metadata: Built over GeoNetwork• LISTmap – clip & ship

- maps.thelist.tas.gov.au• LISTservices – web services

- services.thelist.tas.gov.au

GEONETWORK

11

Soil MetaData

• State-wide mapping, at 80m resolution (3 arc-second) – soil Attribute Surfaces• Created using Digital Soil Mapping• Standard Properties, Measurement Units, Depths, Resolution, Projections and Grid System• 218 Gridded Maps – Predicted Values with 90% Confident Limits of Upper and Lower

Prediction Limits (Uncertainties)• Contributed to TERN (Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network, Soil and Landscape Grid of

Australia)

DIGITAL SOIL MAPPING

12

GLOBALSOILMAP

13

Conforms and Contributes to GlobalSoilMap (GlobalSoilMap.net)

SPECIFICATIONS…..

14

DEPTHS

GEO-REFERENCE

SOIL

PROPERTIES

UNITS

PRECISION

METHODS

UNCERTAINTIES

Department of Primary Industries Parks Water and Environment (DPIPWE)

AGRICULTURAL SOIL RESEARCH - TASMANIA

15

University Of Tasmania

AGRICULTURAL SOIL RESEARCH - TASMANIA

16

Partnership formed between DPIPWE and the University of Tasmania

Linking Government and University

Agricultural Soil Research Data

=

+

Tasmanian Institute of Agriculture (TIA)

17

AGRICULTURAL SOIL RESEARCH - TASMANIA

Undertake and Applying Soil Research to help and maximise productivity, investment and returns on agriculture in Tasmania

Undertaking soil research data ‘trawl’ – ID appropriately formatted soil data, digitize, standardize and classify into appropriate (standard) formats e.eg. TIA agricultural research trials (soil data components)

Part of soil legacy data project – identifying other sources of soil data to capture and store

To date, a further 18,000 geo-referenced soil profiles have been located, and are being harmonised and digitsied…..

(Present database holds ~ 6,500 sites!)

DATA CAPTURE

18

AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH COUNCIL LINKAGE (ARC) PROJECTS

19

Linking University Research with Industry

DPIPWE – University of Sydney Linkage Project – Digital Soil Mapping for Enterprise Suitability Assessment

Transferred knowledge to DPIPWE, transformed quantitative generation of spatial soil research information

Integrating Soil research with industry

Hopefully – some relevant examples from Tasmania

TIA - Good model – collaboration between government and university – soil research data, collection, provision, use and application

ACLEP – Soil Data collection, storage and reporting standards

Good set of standards applied in Tasmania – being more widely adopted by industry and other agencies when collecting soil data (soils database)

Increasingly more publically available (DPIPWE policy – no charge for data – freely available)

ARC – Linkage – another mechanism to link universities with industry and State agencies – applied research

CONCLUSIONS

20

THANK YOU

21This is the footer.

Thank You………