1. The Global Soil Information System
Rainer Baritz
FAO, GSP secretariat

2. Global Soil Partnership
Healthy soils are the foundation of the food system
Good soil status: sufficient nutrients, water, storage and filter
Healthy soils: fertility, productivity, resilience to climate change
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3. Regional Soil Partnerships (9)
Global Soil Partnership
GSP secretariat
(FAO HQ, Rome)
Regional Soil Partnerships (9)
FAO regional and national offices
134 governmental focal points
225 registered partners
REGIONAL SOIL PARTNERSHIP
Fundamental for the implementation of activities via the Implementation Plans.

4. GSP Pillars of Action Pillar 1
Promote sustainable management of soil resources
Plans of Action
Pillar 2
investment, technical cooperation, policy, education, awareness
Implementation plans
Pillar 3
Soil research and development
Pillar 4
Enhance the quantity and quality of soil data and information
Pillar 5
Harmonization of methods, measurements and indicators

5. Global Soil Information System
Pillar 4
Enhance the quantity and quality of soil data and information
Network of Soil Information System Institutions (INSII)
Soil profiles
Updated Harmo-nized World Soil Database
Network
Global Soil Information System
Pillar 4 Working Group
Data Products
Global Soil (Polygon) map
Spatial Data
Infrastructure
Global Spatial SDI Centre (GSSDIC)
High resolution soil property grids
FAO SoilSTAT
Soil monitoring

6. Pillar 5
Harmonization

7. Principles of GSIS
integration between global, national and other systems
Distributed system (e.g. GEOSS and OneGeology)
Comprehensive but with harmonized minimum data sets
Property rights management
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8. SDI Elements see: Pillar 4 Plan of Action Exchange Schema (SoilML)
Web data services (WMS, WFS, WCS)
Portal with view services
Discovery services: meta data/catalogue services
Soil thesaurus
Data search engine
Soil sample archive
Centralized components e.g. soil profile DB
Registry with code lists
Soil method catalogue
IPR management
Other:
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9. Principles for harmonization
1. Principles for Cooperation
commonality
inclusiveness
efficiency
multilinguality
2. Principles for harmonization operations
interoperability
extensibility
scalability
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10. Data storage
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11. Slovakia
1:10 000
Current data
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Austria 1:20 000

12. Interoperable and harmonized data
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13. European infrastructure for environmental spatial data sets: INSPIRE
Generic conceptual model: elements necessary for interoperability and data harmonisation
Methodology for the development of data specifications
Guidelines for the encoding of spatial data
Guidelines for the use of Observations & Measurements and Sensor Web Enablement-related standards
Common data models (generic model examples)
Standards-based: OGC and ISO19xxx standards related to geographical information
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14. INSPIRE data specifications soil (v D2.8.III.3)
Additional standard used: ISO DIS (Soil Quality)
Scope:
Soil inventories: soil properties at specific point in time
Soil mapping: spatial presentation of soil properties
Content
Terms/definitions, symbols/abbreviations, vocabulary, identifier management, informative annexes (uses cases, code lists)
Soil application schema: soil model with feature catalogues (spatial object types) (in UML, basis for generation of XML Schema Definition files (.xsd)
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15. Soil Application Schema
Feature catalogues with spatial object types
SoilProfile (including Observed and Derived Soil Profiles)
ProfileElement (including SoilLayer and SoilHorizon)
SoilBody
SoilDerivedObject
SoilThemeCoverage and SoilThemeDescriptiveCoverage
SoilSite
Theme-specific definitions
e.g. meta data, portrayal
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16. INSPIRE soil conceptual schema
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17. INSPIRE and ISO logical schemata
INSPIRE DS
Sq.xsd
SoilCore.xsd
(v2.0.2 – v2.9 – v3.0)
SoilThemeCoverage.xsd
(v2.9 – v3.0)
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18. Next steps regarding standards
Check differences between existing standards: check validity of SoilML (ISO 28258) as common denominator, provide recommendations
Develop test bed for demonstrating the operational data exchange
Develop and offer a simplified data exchange platform for soil data sets
Incentive to adapt services (e.g. soil profile up-/download, free download load of a simple (empty) data base (e.g. SoDa))
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19. Support to data owners :
 Elaborate, distributed system, data upload, tools and services
Support to data owners :
 Information: search system
 Metadata upload and cataloguing
 Data management: transformation services (e.g. FAO soil profile description, classification transformaiton tools), soil profile up-/download (export XML, etc.)
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 Domain-specific vocabulary development and service

20. Thank you for your attention!