Digital Soil Information in Austria status and applications

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Digital Soil Information in Austriastatus and
applications
WG DSM Miskolc 7./8.04.2005 Alexandra
Freudenschuß
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Content

• Overview and status of Digital Soil
  Information
• Applications and thematic maps
• Recent results within the ECALP- project
• Outlook

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Overview/status of DSI (1)
Soil Map of Austria 11 Mio ESDB Nestroy,
2002 BMLFUW, 2005 Soil Map of Austria 1750.000
(Fink, 1979) status 100 of the
territory availability information about soil
type and parent material Soil Management Survey
(125,000) status 99 of the agricultural area
is mapped availability Federal Research and
Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards
and Landscape (BFW) -gt online version eBOD
http//bfw.ac.at/ebod
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Overview/status of DSI (2)
Forest Site Mapping status 20 of the forest
area is mapped availability partly digital,
diverse data owners (private, public,
university) access often difficult Soil
Taxation Survey (12,000 12,880) status 100
of the agricultural area is mapped
availability BMF, Federal Surveying Office 20
in digital form, currently no digital
access Soil Information System BORIS
(Umweltbundesamt) status more than 10,000 sites
from 45 soil investigations Environmental
Soil Inventories of the Federal Provinces,
Forest Soil Monitoring (BFW), and
others availability access via internet to site
and profile data http//www.umweltbundesamt.
at/boris
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Applications and thematic maps

• Soil Erosion Risk
• Ground water protection, water conditions
• Soil vulnerability of agricultural soils to
  sewage sludge application
• Risk of nitrate leaching
• Preservation of evidence in environmental
  impact assessments
• Development of Soil Indicators

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Applications and thematic maps Water protection
areas
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Water conditions
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Applications and thematic maps Combination of
soil surveys sewage sludge
Arable and grassland
Forest
Englisch et al. 2001 in Bodenaufnahmesysteme in
Österreich ÖBG Heft 62
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Results within the ECALP-project Available Data
Criteria to fill missing information

• Slope
• Exposition
• Topography

Soil Management Survey
Forest Site Mapping
Forest
Water body
Urban
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Results within the ECALP-project Dominant Soil
Type
Criteria to fill missing information

• Slope
• Exposition
• Topography

Soil Management Survey
Forest Site Mapping
Forest
Water body
Urban
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Outlook

• Development of a metadatabase to existing
  Forest Site Mapping (Meta Map - BFW)
• Interpolation of point related soil data and
  intersection with other spatial (soil)
  information
• Contribution to the development of soil
  indicators (national EU level)
• Improvement of spatial soil information by
  using remote sensing data (e.g. GSE project
  Soil-SAGE)
• Input of expertise to the DSM group

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Results within the ECALP-project Soil Erosion
(t/ha)
Criteria to fill missing information

• Slope
• Exposition
• Topography

Soil Management Survey
Forest Site Mapping
Forest
Water body
Urban