TWG_MONITORING

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Technical Working Groups: Monitoring

  

24
Members

MAIN OBJECTIVES
Development of EU integrated soil monitoring system to assess the impact of the EU Soil Strategy and related policies.
  • Development of soil monitoring and soil policy dashboards.
  • Support the definition of monitoring elements within the Soil Health Law
  • Further development of LUCAS Soil Module.

Available for download are a selection of our last 4 EUSO annual reports.

2024 (p.51),  2023 (p.38),  2022 (p.27),  2021 (p.33)

 


 

 ACTIVITIES
December
2025
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WEBINAR organized by the EUSO TW on soil monitoring:
There will be an updated in-situ meeting on the 10th of December for soil sampling protocol for the next LUCAS survey. The scope of this webinar is to discuss with stakeholders the technical specificities of the proposed sampling protocol for the next LUCAS survey that meets the requirements set by the Directive on Soil Monitoring and Resilience.

Presentation
Recording 
More info and agenda

Agenda:
10:00 – 10:05
Opening (Arwyn Jones - JRC, Mirco Barbero - DG ENV)
 
10:05 – 10:15
The LUCAS soil module and the Directive of Soil Monitoring and Resilience (Arwyn Jones - JRC)
 
10:15 – 10:50
Proposal for the in-situ sampling protocol of the next LUCAS soil module.(Carmen Sanchez GARCIA, Maeva Labouyrie, Elise Van Eynde, Alberto Orgiazzi, Arwyn Jones)
 
10:50 – 11:25
Questions and Discussion (All)
 
11:25 – 11:30
Closing (Arwyn Jones - JRC)
 
2024 --Activity report
2023 --Activity report
Mar --
2022  
TWG Meeting: 
  • TWG organization, tasks and planning.
  • Monitoring within the Soil Health Law
Mar 2022 --Sediments group: Develop the sediments database
2022 --
This Working Group will aim to engage with stakeholders engaged in the assessment and monitoring of soils from a range of perspectives to address the technical challenges in establishing an eventual monitoring system that address a range of policy needs. The scope is to set out a roadmap for an integrated soil monitoring system, to be published for policy discussion in 2022, and with a view of testing the implementation in a future LUCAS Soil Module.
 
The roadmap will set out concrete ways in which a more integrated monitoring system could be achieved for EU soil data and knowledge, through the development/deployment of:
  • Common soil indicators across policies, land uses, countries, sectors, etc.
  • Comparison and potential harmonisation of national and LUCAS soil sampling strategies/schemes
  • Comparison of national and LUCAS soil datasets
  • Methods to combine national and LUCAS datasets
  • Methods to combine existing maps
  • Potential and methods to integrate data from satellite observations, citizen data, or private company data willing to collaborate.;
  
  
 CONTACTS:
Arwyn Jones, EUSO - Arwyn.JONES@ec.europa.eu
Nils Broothaerts, EUSO - Nils.BROOTHAERTS@ec.europa.eu
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