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Soil Informatics at BGS
Russell Lawley
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• BGS is a component body of NERC
• Advise UK government on all aspects
of geoscience
• Public funded (c.50%)
• HQ in Nottingham
• 650 staff across UK
• We operate globally, generally in a
capacity-building role
• Geologically surveying UK since 1835
• We create and provide an extensive
range of geoscience information for
public good, research and commerce
www.bgs.ac.uk
BGS
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Soils at BGS
• G-Base
• Airborne geophysics
• Soil-Parent models
• Process modelling
• Environmental statistics
• National Baseline Concentrations
• Soil & human health
• Soil & animal health
• mySOIL
• UK Soil Observatory
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Soil informatics
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Soil informatics - mySoil
• Soil-related data on a mobile platform
with a crowdsourcing option
• V1 April 2012 (UK data) iOS
• V2 June 2013 (EU data) iOS, Android
• integrated with UKSO April 2014
• Takes data feeds from BGS, CEH, Met
Office, JRC and Open Street Mapping
www.bgs.ac.uk/mysoil
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• One of our more popular crowdsourcing
mechanisms
• App has a broad spectrum of appeal
• Simple interface
• Habitat
• Soil depth
• Organic matter
• pH
• Texture
• Soil temperature
• Crowd sources pictures, description, texture
pH
Soil informatics - mySoil
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Soil informatics – UK Soil Observatory
www.ukso.org
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Soil informatics – UK Soil Observatory
www.ukso.org
• UK soils data through a web
mapping portal
• Started as NERC soil portal 2010
• Launched as UKSO 2014
• Mobile-enabled 2015
• Takes data feeds from BGS,
Cranfield, CEH, JHI, AFBINI,
Forestry Commission, Forestry
Research and Rothamsted
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Soil informatics – UK Soil Observatory
• Build upon data availability and
interoperability to improve the clarity and
ease-of-use of national and regional soil
data resources
• Provide data for free where possible or
free-to-view as a minimum
• Provide signposts to sources of soil
research and soil-related data for others
to use and develop
Airborne radiometrics
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Soil informatics – UK Soil Observatory
135 data layers in viewer
• Soil type
• Soil function & parameters
• Soil chemistry
• Soil geophysics
• Habitat
• Soil biota
• mySoil content
• Web Map Services
• 1:10k, 1:50k & 1:250k expert maps,
• Point data,
• Interpolated data (50m – 1km)
• Static images
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UKSO changes since 2014
• Considerable back office re-
write
• c.35 additional layers
• Crowd source interface
• Crowd source thematics
• Improved search options
• Responsive sizing/format
(App & web in one)
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UKSO & mySOIL activities 2016/7
UKSO
• Landcover crowdsourcing
(CEH)
• Partnership with ISRIC
• Harmonised Gbase soil models
• Crowdsource download
• PMM v8
• Harmonised BGS ‘peat’ layer
• Improved terrain models
• User-wms add-in tools
• Map sharing
mySOIL
• Welsh Language
version
• Localisation
(multilingual)
• Map caching
• World-soil data (ISRIC-
JRC)
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UKSO/ mySoil possibilities
• A dedicated ‘research’ /discussion area
• A dedicated ‘agronomy’ area
o Agritech data/sample platform (WMS/WFS for 3rd parties)
o Pro-user Soil mapping/observation capture system
• A dedicated ‘contaminated’ soils area
• A dedicated sensor networks area
• Others
oWFS for the OGL datasets
o Soil Moisture models
o Other legacy data
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Thank you
www.ukso.org
www.bgs.ac.uk/mysoil
rslaw@bgs.ac.uk
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