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Soil Data Center is one of the ten environmental data centres in Europe and is the focal point for soil data at European level. The European 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.
- Soil Datasets: The European Soil Portal contains currently many soil data, maps, information, Atlases 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. Thematic Assessement Soil in the "State of Environment Report (SOER2010) is also available.
- 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
- International Cooperation: presents the most Important International Cooperations that Soil Action is participating (Global Soil Partnership, Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative, GlobalSoilMap.net, Sino-EU Panel on Land and Soil)
- 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
 Spanish and Portuguese version of the Calendar
- (31/01/12) ES: Este calendario, y el “Atlas del Suelo de América Latina y Caribe” del que surge, son iniciativas en el marco del Programa EUROCLIMA, que tiene como objetivo fomentar la cooperación entre América Latina y la Unión Europea en materia de cambio climático.
PT: Este calendário e o correspondente Atlas de Solos da América Latina e do Caribe são iniciativas do Programa EUrocLIMA, que busca fortalecer a cooperação entre a América Latina e a União Europeia nas questões relacionadas às mudanças climáticas.
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- Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative first open meeting
- (31/01/12) SThe Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative will host its first Open Meeting immediately after the Planet Under Pressure Conference in London, England. We encourage all, including Planet Under Pressure attendees, to join us at the ExCel Center, London(UK), Friday March 30th
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- Joint GSP/e-SOTER workshop
- (31/01/12) Strengthening of Soil Data and Information is one of the main pillars of action of the FAO Global Soil Partnership. "The workshop Towards Global Soil Information: activities within the GEO Task Global Soil Data" will be organised at FAO Headquarters in Rome, Italy from 20-23rd March 2012....
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- Calendar 2012
- (21/12/11) This calendar and the related Soil Atlas of Latin America and the Caribbean are initiatives under the EUrocLIMA Programme, which aims to encourage cooperation between Latin America and the European Union on climate change issues
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- Soil Erodibility in Europe
- (23/11/11) The K-factor is related to crucial soil factors triggering erosion (organic matter content, soil texture, soil structure, permeability). We calculated soil erodibility using measured soil data, collected during the 2009 LUCAS....Download the Data.....
- Monitoring, Reporting and Verification systems for Carbon in Soils and Vegetation in African, Caribbean and Pacific countries
- (10/10/11) Improved terrestrial carbon management offers tremendous potential for climate change mitigation and, in many cases, there are associated co-benefits such as increased productivity, resilience, and biodiversity. In January 2011, the Institute for Environment and Sustainability of the JRC organized an inter-service meeting ....Download.....
- Global Soil Biodiversity Initiative (GSBI)
- (28/9/11) This initiative, now open to all interested in sustaining soils, was formed based on growing international concern by scientists, policy makers and the public over the status of the world’s soils and increased recognition that the life in soil is key to sustaining our food production....More.....
- iSOIL data
- (27/9/11) The FP7 Project iSOIL (Interactions between soil related sciences – Linking geophysics, soil science and digital soil) has generated a wealth of data (Geophysics Gamma Spectrometry, magnetics, EM38, etc) available for download....Download.....
- DIGISOIL Deliverables
- (16/9/11) The FP7 Project DIGISOIL (Development and improvement of technologies for data collection in digital soil mapping) has been concluded in August 2011. All the project deliverables are available for download....Download.....
- Soil Protection Activities and Soil Quality Monitoring in South Eastern Europe
- (27/7/11) Conference papers, June 18th and 19th, 2009, Sarajevo - Bosnia and Herzegovina. The conference Soil Protection Activities and Soil Quality Monitoring in South Eastern Europe was organized in Sarajevo as a joint action by the Soil Science Society of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Soil Science Society of Slovenia...
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- Research articles of SOIL Action in 2010
- (5/7/11) A list of the most interesting publications (9) of SOIL Action staff in in peer review journals during 2010 More
- G2 Soil erosion model and data
- (16/6/11) G2 model is a new generic model for erosion and estimates soil loss (in t/ha) from sheet and interril erosion caused by splash and runoff, on a month-step basis and on a landscape scale. G2 model has been applied in the cross-border basin of Strymonas river (14,500 km2), located in South East Europe (Greece / Bulgaria). The data of Strymonas application are provided for free Download the data
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