| This Soil Portal contributes
to a thematic data infrastructure for soils in Europe. It presents data
and information regarding soils at European level. It connects to activities
within JRC concerning soil (JRC SOIL Action). It serves also as a vehicle
to promote the activities of the European Soil Bureau Network. Spatial
data collection and processing within this infrastructure is performed
according to emerging ideas behind the INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial
Information in Europe) initiative. The European
Soil Data Center is one of the ten environmental data centres in Europe and is the focal point for soil data at European level.
- Soil Datasets: The European Soil Portal contains currently many soil data, maps, information and applications; most of the offered data are at European scale, while, when possible, links to national or global datasets are provided.
- Soil
at JRC: Soil activities within the JRC are concentrated in a specific
JRC Action, called FP7 "Soil Data and Information Systems" or SOIL.
- Documents - Publications:
European Soil Bureau Research Reports, JRC Scientific and Technical
Reports, Papers in Journals, Publications in Conferences, Posters
and Publications in CD-ROMs, Glossary of Soil Terms.
- Soil Projects: many past and current
projects relate to the soil activities of JRC .
- Soil Themes: covers various results for
different soil themes such as Erosion, soil Organic Carbon Content,
Salinisation, Landslides, Soil Compaction, Biodiversity and soil Contamination.
- European Soil Bureau
Network (ESBN): is a network of soil institutes supporting the
JRC soil activities
- Events - Presentations
in various events(Conferences, Workshops, Meetings, Summer Schools)
which are related to the work that the Land Management Unit is doing
in relation to the European Soil Bureau Network. Calendar of future
events is also available.
- Awareness Raising
Our Goal as Soil Action is to Establish an action plan for the development of measures/programmes/initiatives to raise awareness of the importance of soil across European society (i.e. policy makers, general public, universities, schools, industry, etc.).
- What's new? chronology of
items added to this soil portal. Get the NEWS either in
XML
or Atom
format and the monthly Newsletters.
- Utilities
- Various : A mailing list has been set up in
order to keep interested persons up to date with the latest contents
on this site. Other Tools such as the Search Engine are also available.
- Team
- Action SOIL: the people at JRC behind the soil activities.
- Links:
key pointers to soil related bodies and International Organisations
World Soil Day: 5th December
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Highlights
Biochar application to soils
- (02/02/10) Biochar application to soils is being considered as a means to sequester carbon (C) while concurrently improving soil functions. The main focus of this report is providing a critical scientific review of the current state of knowledge..... Download it
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European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC)
- (31/1/10) In the context of the development of European Environmental Data Centres by the European Commission and the European Environment Agency, a European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC) has been developed by JRC, which also holds a catalogue of European soil data and information....
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Landslides
- (31/1/10) The landslides page of the European Soil Portal has undergone a major upgrade more ......
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SoilTrec: Soil Transformations in European Catchments
- (7/1/10) The aims of SoilTrEC are to address the priority research areas identified in the EU Soil Thematic Strategy and to provide leadership for a global network of Critical Zone Observatories (CZOs) committed to soils research more ......
European Soil Data Centre Mapviewer
- (23/12/09) ESDAC MapViewer integrates the European Soil Database layers and some other soil layers in one single web-based application. The public user may navigate the Soil layers......
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Calendar 2010 - "African Soil"
- (19/12/09) Happy New Year with the 2010 Soil Calendar: This calendar and the related Soil Atlas of Africa is an initiative of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
.... download it!
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2 Side Events at COP 15(UN climate change conference)
- (17/12/09) Biochar Application to Soils, Carbon sequestration and soil improvement potential. The Digital Soil Map of the World: Its Relevance to UNFCCC
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- Free Download of the Salinization Data
- (18/11/09) For the purpose of research only, the data behind the map "Saline and Sodic Soils in the EU".... more
- Free Download of the Compaction Data
- (18/11/09) For the purpose of research only, the data behind the map "natural soil susceptibility to compaction".... more
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HYPRES
- (16/11/09) Using existing soil data to derive hydraulic parameters for simulation models in environmental studies and in land use planning .... more
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Soil Awareness Raising
- (11/11/09) Important Challenge: Soil Action is establishing an action plan for the development of measures/programmes/initiatives to raise awareness of the importance of soil across European society. .... more
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SPADE2v11: Soil Profile Database 2 Ver 1.1
- (05/11/09) Important Development: Access to the SPADE2v11 database is granted to users. .... more
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Envasso Volume IVb: Prototype Evaluation – Pilot Studies
- (30/10/09) Announcing the Volume IVb of the Environmental Assessment of Soil for Monitoring (ENVASSO) "Prototype Evaluation – Pilot Studies". .... more
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