ESP Implementation Plan: Pillar 4
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Pillar 4 focuses on enhancing the quantity and quality of soil data through a collaborative international effort, aiming to provide essential soil information for global resource management. The plan includes establishing monitoring systems, integrating data, and finding solutions to intellectual property concerns, while leveraging existing European networks and databases. Key challenges include improving data sharing practices, developing technical capacity, and ensuring compliance with standards.
ESP Implementation Plan: Pillar 4
- 1. PILLAR 4 Enhance the quantity and quality of soil data and information: data collection, analysis, validation, reporting, monitoring and integration with other disciplines Allan Lilly
- 2. PILLAR 4 BACKGROUND GSP pillar 4 Answering critical questions at the global scale Supplying fundamental soil data for understanding Earth-system processes to enable management of the major natural resources Pillar 4 Implementation Plan Network of International Soil Information Institutions (INSII) reviewed and revised draft Global IP and is supported by a technical working group of soil information experts (Pillar 4 Working Group). SDF
- 3. PILLAR 4 BACKGROUND Adapt GSP Implementation Plan in the European Region • Monitoring • Provision of profile data • Provision of polygon data • Provision of data for spatial grids Close links with Harmonisation (Pillar 5) • build on national and within-country systems • Integrate the soil information into GEOSS GEOSS - Global Earth Observing System of Systems Very much guided by GSP
- 4. Monitoring, forecasting, and status reporting (SoilSTAT) – largely lead by FAO Monitoring system to measure changes in soil quality through time to assess efficacy of sustainable soil management • Establish Inventory of existing soil policies and monitoring (eg http://ecologic.eu/13090, LUCAS, BioSoil) to inform monitoring and identify gaps • Establish a realistic reporting time frame • Make use of existing reporting structures with Europe
- 5. Soil profile/point data Comprehensive soil profile and analytical database – Tier 1 World reference soil profile and analytical database – Tier 2 (more rigorous requirements) • Identify/collate existing datasets (national soil surveys, Academic institutions, private laboratories, European level datasets eg SPADE, LUCAS…..) particularly new data • Overcome/respect concerns over Intellectual Property Rights • Building/reinvigorating networks of data providers • Develop a distributed system
- 6. Revise and update the digital Soil Map of the World with the design scale 1:1M from national soil polygon data sets • European soil data already exists but could be improved (Atlas, 2018) • Overcome/respect concerns over Intellectual Property Rights • Building/reinvigorating a network of data providers • Developing a distributed system (GS-Soil) Spatial data
- 7. Global/European grids (soil property maps) Harmonized World Soil Database (underway) Fine-resolution grid of soil properties • Digital soil mapping techniques • Relatively new science • Limited number of technical experts • Requires comprehensive soil profile database
- 8. Current position • Europe is relatively data rich though data are aging • There are EU-level initiatives (eg LUCAS) • Many national initiatives • INSPIRE directive/ISO standards • We have existing networks: • European Soil Bureau Network (ESBN) • National Reference Centres Soil of the European Information and Observation Network (EIONET) • We have European data centres: • European Data Centre (ESDAC), • European Topic Centre on Urban, Land and Soils (ETC ULS) We need to build on these and fill gaps in the European Region rather than starting from fresh. We can use existing standards (INSPIRE/ISO) and networks and the development of a global Soil Organic Matter spatial dataset gives us an opportunity to develop and expand our networks, share data and show we can deliver a key product.
- 9. Key challenges for European Soil Partnership – Pillar 4 • Overcome/respect concerns over Intellectual Property Rights • Build/reinvigorate networks of data providers/soil information institutions • Europe is data-rich but often poor at sharing • Data are often quite old, we need to collate new soil data • Develop a distributed system • Build technical capacity • Be INSPIRE compliant • Data harmonisation (particle size, pH, organic C) with Pillar 5 • Identify/establish monitoring network • Funding – who pays? (in kind requires goodwill) • Identify a key Institution that can act as a ‘Figure head’/manage data if required
- 10. Timeline for SOC map/spatial dataset
- 11. PILLAR 4 DISCUSSION BY THE ESP PLENARY