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Final Meeting topic: "Towards Global Soil Information: activities within the GEO Task Global Soil Data
Venue: Rome, Italy
Dates: 20-23 March 2012
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, in the framework of the Global Soil Partnership, together with ISRIC-World Soil Information, coordinator of the EU-funded e-SOTER, organized the Global Soil Partnership workshop:
"Towards Global Soil Information: Activities within the GEO Task Global Soil
Data"
The objective of the workshop was to review the state of the art of tools and techniques for mapping soils at global and regional scales as an input for defining future activities under the implementation of the Global Soil Partnership.
The meeting concluded that the e-SOTER project was successfully completed and that a wealth of information was gathered during the project, both in the selected study areas and for Europe overall. It was also decided that the eSOTER findings would be applied for the whole of Europe at 1:1 million scale, which would serve as input for a new version of the Harmonized World Soil Database.
The present workshop report summaries the proceedings of the GSP workshop held at FAO headquarters in Rome from 20th March to 23rd March 2012. The objective of the workshop was to discuss in particular the various aspects of global soil information (Pillar 4 of the GSP) and the related information gathered by the e-SOTER project
Presentations of the Meeting:
- Overview e-SOTER (Mr. Vincent van Engelen - ISRIC)
- Development of a terrain and parent material platform at scale 1 to 1 million (Prof. Endre Dobos - University of Miskolc)
- Development of the soil component (Prof. Erika Micheli - Szent Istvan University)
- Enhancing the terrain component (Ms. Joanna Zawadzka Cranfield University)
- A new system of terrain classification (Mr. Rüdiger Köthe - Scilands GmbH)
- A new classification of soil parent material (Dr. Ulrich Schuler - BGR)
- Integration of terrain, parent material and soil information at scale 1 to 250,000 (Mr. Michael Bock BGR/Scilands GmbH)
- Enhanced SOTER database for UK study area (Ms. Joanna Zawadzka Cranfield University)
- Application of e-SOTER approach in Morocco: opportunities and constraints (Dr. Rachid Moussadek - INRA, Morocco)
- Validation and uncertainty analysis of e-SOTER products (Dr. Gerard Heuvelink - Alterra)
- Applications of the e-SOTER database using some models to simulate soil threats (Dr. Simone Verzandvoort - Alterra)
- e-SOTER web services: status and way ahead to a Global Soil Information Service (Yusuf YIGINI, European Commission, Joint Research Centre)
- Standards and services for Soil and Terrain Data Exchange SoTerML (Dr. Steve Hallett, Cranfield University)
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