Co-funded by thecommunity programmeeContentplus
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Katharina FeidenCoordination Center PortalU
at the Lower Saxony Ministry of Environment and Climate Protection (Germany)
Progress of the transnational cooperation in building up a SDI for European soil data
Together with:F. Kruse, B. Houskova, T. Reznik,
E. Eberhardt, R. Baritz, C. Figueiredo
Co-funded by thecommunity programmeeContentplus
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Introduction
Project - Database- Metadata- Test cases- GSSOIL Portal
Outlook
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GS Soil: project outline
Project outline
GS Soil: Assessment and strategic development of INSPIRE compliant Geodata-Services for European Soil Data
EU-Programme: eContentplus*
Funding: 4,1 Mio € (overall budget 5.1 Mio €)
Duration: 06/2009 – 05/2012 (3 years)
Coordinator: Coordination Center PortalU (German Environmental Portal)
Consortium: 34 Partner18 EU member states24 soil data providers
* http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm
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Soil data: relevance & supplies
Soil data in Europe Relevance & Supplies
public access + usability to/of digital soil information is limited
Soil properties important in land use, geology, geomorphology, climate, food production, health, quality of life etc.
considerable differences in mode, extent, actuality and method of collecting of the data.
Soil data and responsibilities are distributed beyond administrative and institutional responsibilities
Soil is an theme of INSPIRE (Annex III)
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Soil (INSPIRE Annex III)
• Soil Type: WRB classification
• Soil Properties: depth, structure, particle sizedistribution, texture, organic carbon, bulk density, parent material, …
Direct considered topics
Protected Sites (INSPIRE Annex I)• Soil Protection Areas
Human Health and Safety (INSPIRE Annex III)• Soil Contamination: dangerous waste, heavy metals, …
Environmental Monitoring Facilities (INSPIRE Annex III)• Soil Monitoring Facilities & Long Term Observations
Partly covered INSPIRE themes:
Biogeographical Regions(INSPIRE Annex III)
Soil Related
Aspects
Basic Soil D
ata
Linked topics(for clustering activities)
Geology (INSPIRE Annex II)
Land Cover (INSPIRE Annex II)
Habitats and Biotopes(INSPIRE Annex III)
Natural Risk Zones (INSPIRE Annex III)• Soil Threats: landslides, soil erosion, soil compaction, soil
organic carbon decline, salinization, acidification, soil biodiversity loss, …
Soil in INSPIRE
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- Aim:
- Establishment of an European network to improve the access to
INSPIRE related spatial soil data
- Objectives
- specification of a structure to describe spatial soil data
- harmonisation of spatial soil metadata
- seamless combination of spatial soil data (case studies)
⇒ bundling of soil data & metadata in central Soil Information Portal
GS Soil: project outline
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GS Soil: project structure
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Work Package 2: gap analysis / data-inventory
Requirement & Gap Analysis
WP 2: Content Provision FrameworkReport of requirements and description of status quo with regardto harmonised soil data in the scale of > 1:1 Mio
- Review of existing inentories, questionaire of target groups(data provider, „policy-makers“, key-stakeholders)
Soil Inventory & ThemeCataloge
Basis for harmonisation and work on metadataprofiles
Content-Framework Best Pratice Guidelines
WP 3, WP 4Definition des of theContent-Frameworkstandards
Assessment of requirements on harmonised soil data- FAO World Reference Base soil classification system?- Scale and Geometry?- INSPIRE-relevant soil parameters?- Methods and classification systems
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GS Soil: participating member states
Nr. Member state National data Regional data
1 AT - Austria x x
2 BE - Belgium x
3 BG - Bulgaria x
4 CZ – Czech Republic x
5 DE - Germany x
6 DK - Denmark x
7 ES - Spain x
8 FR - France x
9 FI - Finland x
10 EL - Greece x x
11 HU - Hungary x x
12 IE - Ireland x
13 PL - Poland x
14 PT - Portugal x x
15 RO - Romania x
16 SK - Slovakia x
17 SI - Slovenia x
18 UK –United Kingdom x x
Participating member states
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Development of an ISO 19115/INSPIRE-compliant Metadata profile for spatial soildata
Metadata profile for soil specific „ViewServices“ (scale, projection, etc.)
Development of automatic meta-dataderivation methologies
Analysis of multilingual needs for meta-data content
Provision of spatialmetadata & development of Best Practice Guidelines forcreating & maintainingmetadata for soil databases
Work Package 3: Harmonisation of Metadaten
WP 3: Data Management & Metadata
WP 2
WP 4
Cookbook „metadata“ for data provider
WP 4
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Aspects of the Soil metadata profiles
• Two metadata profiles:– for datasets and dataset series– for services
• Compliant to the Commission Regulation No. 1205/2008• Added soil theme-specific metadata elements• Well-described structure according to the ISO 19100
series standards• Within ISO 19115 framework• Examples of the XML encoding• Registered as the INSPIRE Reference Material
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Specify „test suite“ soil
Frame conditions for soildata harmonisation / consistency
Development of genericdata models for transfer of soil map, soil profile, …
Consolidation of Data HarmonisationBest Pratice Guideline
Development & provision of first-cuttransformation services
Work Package 4: Strategy for harmonisation and interoperability
WP 4: Harmonisation & Semantic Interoperability
WP 2, WP 3
Related to INSPIRE DT Data Spec. Test of GS Soil case studies
- spatial data / maps- Local data- Monitoring-data
Development of semantic contents of the GS Soil-soil data, e.g.
- Soil types- Soil profiles- Soil features- …
Harmonisation-andtransformation services
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GS SOIL test cases
soil mapping 1:250k and related scales
soil mappingat higher
resolutions
thematic mapping soil profiles soil
monitoring Nomenclature/ classification
(WRB) − Nordic (FI)
− Baltic (RO, BU, GR)
− UK/IRL/N.-IRL
− Germany (DE)/ France (F)
− Austria (AT)/ Slovakia (SK)
− Belgium (BE)
− Slovenia (SL)
− Belgium (BE)
− Germany (DE)
− Slovakia (SK)
− Denmark (DK)
− Austria (AT)
− Slovakia (SK)
− Germany (DE)
− Austria (AT) − various partners
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Establishment of theGS Soil Portals
Deployment and operational manualincluding guidelines
Establishment of a semantic service(Thesaurus, Gazeteer)
Provision of open tools and INSPIRE Services for data providers
WP 5: Establishment of an Integrated Network & Soil Portal
Work Package 5: GS Soil-Portal
WP 2, WP 3WP 6
WP 4 Continuous integration of services and information
GEMET ?
Discovery (CSW)View (WMS)Download (WFS)GS Soil Dienste…
Concept of the Portal-and GS Soil networkarchitecture
WP 2, WP 3
Continuous integration of services and information
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• Portal surface supports currently 11 Languages:– English, – German– Portuguese– Dutch (fm. Belgium)– Czech– Hungarian– Slovak– Bulgarian– Greek– Slovene– Romanian
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Link to a PDF-Dokument
Link to a Web-Page (HTML)
Link to a Metadata Object• External CSW• Cached catalog • Indexed• Ranked search results
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Similar Terms from GEMET
…currently further improved for soil specific
thesaurus
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Gazeteer:
…on the basis of GeoNames,
OpenStreetMaps, GeoHash
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• Reference material for TWG „SOIL“– Metadata profiles– Test cases (framework for data specification)
• Development application schema• Theme specific thesaurus• Transforamtion services• IPR• Input by data providers (data, metadata, info etc)• Expansion of the GS SOIL network• User testing of the portal / involvement stakeholders• Etc.
Conclusion and next steps
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GS Soil: Networking and Clustering
Europen Data Centres
Water (WISE)EIONET/SEIS
INSPIRE Annex themes „Soil“, „Environmental Monitoring Facilities“
GS SoilPortal Soil
eContentplusBest Practice Networks
OneGeology EuropeNature-SDIplus
FP6Orchestra HumboldtCascadoss
European Spatial Data Infrastructure
INSPIRE
GEOSS Data Architecture
FP7e-SOTER(global soilobservingsystem)
ENVASSO RAMSOIL
SDI
Soil
other themes
GMES
Soil Thematic Strategy/Soil Directive
Environmentalpolicies
TC 190 (Soil Quality), SC 1 WG 3 (Data codification and management)
ISO
INSPIRE Drafting Teams
European Soil Bureau Network (ESBN)
working group „INSPIRE“
ESDACJRC
Europen Data Centres
Water (WISE)EIONET/SEIS
INSPIRE Annex themes „Soil“, „Environmental Monitoring Facilities“
GS SoilPortal Soil
eContentplusBest Practice Networks
OneGeology EuropeNature-SDIplus
FP6Orchestra HumboldtCascadoss
European Spatial Data Infrastructure
INSPIRE
GEOSS Data Architecture
FP7e-SOTER(global soilobservingsystem)
ENVASSO RAMSOIL
SDI
Soil
other themes
GMES
Soil Thematic Strategy/Soil Directive
Environmentalpolicies
TC 190 (Soil Quality), SC 1 WG 3 (Data codification and management)
ISO
INSPIRE Drafting Teams
European Soil Bureau Network (ESBN)
working group „INSPIRE“
ESDACJRC
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Thank you for your attention
and please visit:
Web: http://gssoil-portal.eu/
www.gssoil.eu
eMail: [email protected]
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