The eContentplus project "Assessment and strategic development of INSPIRE compliant Geodata-Services for European Soil Data (GS Soil)" started on June 1, 2009 and will last until the end of May 2012 (36 month). The project leader is the German Environmental Information Portal (PortalU) with additional 34 partners from 18 countries participating in the project.
The establishment of the European Soil Strategy has enforced the link between soil information and geo-information. This has generated the need for interoperable, accessible and harmonised soil datasets for the EU. The link is also addressed by the INSPIRE Directive (2007/2/EC) which pursues an EU Spatial Data Infrastructure to support environmental policies. GS Soil aims, through state-of-the-art methodologies and best practice examples, to improve harmonisation of national datasets and make them more accessible and exploitable. Therefore, it contributes to the INSPIRE implementation with specific reference to a cluster of data themes on nature conservation.
The main objective of the GS Soil is to:
- involve stakeholders and soil data providers;
- share datasets and best practices;
- improve and stimulate exploitation and
- the re-use of information on soils.
Thu 15.12.11 GS SOIL at national seminar in France The national seminar of the "Inventory, Management and Soil Conservation "(IGCS) was held on 1th and 2nd of December in Strasbourg (France) at the Home of Agriculture. Co-organized by the Association for Agricultural Renewal in Alsace (ARAA) and InfoSol unit of INRA Orléans, various presentations followed by discussions were held...
Mon 21.11.11 "INSPIRE and soil data" - National workshop held in Salzburg On Wednesday 16th and Thursday 17th November a national Workshop on "Inspire and soil data in Austria" was held at the University of Salzburg. More than 70 participants from Austria and Germany covering all INSPIRE-affected organisations including the soil domain attended this event organised by the GS Soil partners "University...
Fri 18.11.11 Fourth GS SOIL Newsletter published The fourth project newsletter was published today and comprises the main project activities during the last months. This issue focusses on the contributions of GS Soil to INSPIRE and shows first results of the work on selected test cases. To receive the newsletter automatically please subscribe at the field NEWSLETTER at the bottom of this page.
Fri 21.10.11 GS SOIL finishes INSPIRE testing Today, in due time, the contributing partners in GS SOIL submitted the comments regarding the INSPIRE data specification for the annex III theme “soil” to the JRC for further acknowledgement. The contributing partners tested their datasets regarding the feasibility of the INSPIRE schema, for example for monitoring data, derived soil...
About GS Soil
Dear visitor,
thank you for your interest in our GS SOIL portal.
Currently (June 2011), the preliminary portal version is available. We kindly ask for your understanding, that the work on the portal features is still ongoing. Please also note that we are ongoing anxious to integrate the available data of our project partners and to make our soil information available for you. Please check the progress regularly.
The final portal version and the comprehensive soil information of our GS SOIL network will be available in May 2012.
Kind regards
The GS SOIL team
Contact gssoil@portalu.de if you need help publishing data
Visit the GS Soil Website http://www.gssoil.eu
GS Soil Network
GS Soil is an eContentplus project. The different data provider out of the GS Soil Network offer soil information in GS Soil Portal.