1 32nd IGC Florence 2004 Luca Montanarella The European Soil Information System and its possible links with the 1:5,000,000 International Geological Map of Europe and adjacent areas

2 32nd IGC Florence 2004 EUROPEAN SOIL BUREAU NETWORK Soil data

3 32nd IGC Florence 2004 European Soil Database: WRB classification

4 32nd IGC Florence 2004 Planned extension of the European Soil Database

5 32nd IGC Florence National Snow and Ice Data Center

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7 32nd IGC Florence 2004 From the Global to the Local Scale EUSIS - A nested soil information system for Europe EUROPEAN SOIL BUREAU NETWORK Soil Geographical Database of Europe World Soil and Terrain Database Soil Monitoring Sites Catchment Information System FAO EU Member States Regions Communes Global assessments Spatial planning Precision farming 1 : 5,000,000 1 : 1,000,000 1 : 250,000 1 : 50,000 1 : 5000 Different scales give answers to different questions Georeferenced Soil Database of Europe

8 32nd IGC Florence 2004 Parent material

9 32nd IGC Florence 2004 Parent materials Manual of Procedures of the Georeferenced Soil Database of Europe (Doc. EUR EN)

10 32nd IGC Florence 2004 Parent materials Manual of Procedures of the Georeferenced Soil Database of Europe (Doc. EUR EN)

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13 32nd IGC Florence 2004 Soil Regions of the European Union R. Hartwich - BGR

14 32nd IGC Florence 2004 Procedure for the delineation of soil regions: 1.delimitation of areas with similar climate, 2.subdivision of these areas by parent material associations with similar geologic-paleogeographic development, 3.assignment of the occurring dominant soils.

15 32nd IGC Florence 2004 Each single soil region is characterized and described by: dominant soil types and regional name dominant parent material climatic data altitudes and major landforms.

16 32nd IGC Florence 2004 Legend of the Soil Regions map (partial)

17 32nd IGC Florence 2004 Georeferenced Soil Database for Europe (Doc. EUR EN)

18 32nd IGC Florence 2004 Brussels, COM(2004) 516 final 2004/0175 (COD). Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing an infrastructure for spatial information in the Community (INSPIRE)

19 32nd IGC Florence 2004 Architecture & Standards Chair : JRC Ispra Legal Aspects & Data Policy Chair : UK Funding & Implementation structures Chair : SE Common Reference Data & Metadata Chair : ESTAT Impact Analysis Chair : NL Environmental thematic co-ordination Chair: EEA Inter-sectoral co-ordination Chair: ESTAT ….. biodiversity soils seveso urban noise forest water Environmental components Horizontal Components Agricultural components Transport components Other components Technical Co-ordination & Secretariat JRC Ispra - Institute for Environment and Sustainability COGI Chair: ESTAT INSPIRE Expert Group Chair : DG ENV & ESTAT Phase 2: other sectors Other thematic co-ordination Chair: Transport thematic co-ordination Chair: Agricultural thematic co-ordination Chair: Phase 1: Environmental Sector INSPIRE Thematic Components

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