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• Introduction
• Background and policy context
• The Soil Geographical Database
• The MCYFS
• Current use of Soil data
• Generation of soil parameters with FAO soil map
• Verification and update of WRB-codes
• Rewriting PedoTransfer Rules
• Redefinition of new Soil Physical Groups
• Redefinition of new Rooting Depth classes
• CGMS soil suitability criteria
• Summary
• References
• Annex

Introduction

The report is about the development of a framework for incorporating version 4.0 of the Soil Geographical Database of Europe (SGDBE) in the Crop Growth Monitoring System (CGMS) which is a part of the Mars Crop Yield Forecasting System (MCYFS).

This report is based on the achievements of the study: 'New soil information for the Crop Growth Monitoring System' and has been published as EU-report EUR 22499 EN.

The work is subdivided into different activities which are discussed in the following chapters:

• generation of soil parameters with FAO (Food and Agriculture Organisation) soil map
• check and update of WRB soil names
• rewriting the Pedotransfer Rules (PTR) for salinity, alkalinity and drainage class according to the new nomenclature
• redefinition of new Soil Physical Groups and their parameters
• redefinition of new Rooting Depth classes
• re-evaluation of CGMS Suitability Criteria
• new evaluation of Soil Suitability Criteria