Progress of the transnational cooperation in building up a ... · • Soil Threats: landslides, soil erosion, soil compaction, soil organic carbon decline, salinization, acidification,

Co-funded by thecommunity programmeeContentplus

1 GS SOIL Workshop INSPIRE conference - Krakow, 22.06.10

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


Introduction

Project - Database- Metadata- Test cases- GSSOIL Portal

Outlook


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

http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/econtentplus/index_en.htm


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)


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


- 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


GS Soil: project structure


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


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


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


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


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


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



• Portal surface supports currently 11 Languages:– English, – German– Portuguese– Dutch (fm. Belgium)– Czech– Hungarian– Slovak– Bulgarian– Greek– Slovene– Romanian


Link to a PDF-Dokument

Link to a Web-Page (HTML)

Link to a Metadata Object• External CSW• Cached catalog • Indexed• Ranked search results


Similar Terms from GEMET

…currently further improved for soil specific

thesaurus


Gazeteer:

…on the basis of GeoNames,

OpenStreetMaps, GeoHash



• 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


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


Thank you for your attention

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Progress of the transnational cooperation in building up a ... · • Soil Threats: landslides, soil erosion, soil compaction, soil organic carbon decline, salinization, acidification,