The Global Soil Information System and SoilSTAT

Pillar 4

Pillar 5 aspects related to its implementation

DeliverablesPillar 4

Soil Polygon map

- SoilSTAT concept

Soil profiles

- Data overview- Web platform and portal- Tier 1 data base- Tier 2 specifications

- Copyright/data use policy- Code of ethics- Capacity development programme

2016

SoilSTAT

Soil grids

- Tier 1 (continued)- Tier 2 data base

2017 - 2020

- Specifications- SOTER mapping and

data exchange

- HWSD Specifications- Proof-of-concept (PoC)

- HWSD final product

- Grid v0: data overview- Web portal and PoC

- v0 gridded product

- Grid v1: specifications and data

Global Soil Information System (GSIS)1. Overarching term for GSP Pillar 4 (country) products2. Building on Pillar 5 harmonization, soil exchange model

and indicator selection

Þ Very ambitions, lots of resources neededÞ Network establishment (INSII, P4WG, complementary RSP

design, GSSDIC)Þ Capacity buildingÞ Links: national statistics and infrastructure and reportingÞ Complementary role Pillar 5

After 1 year entering implementation.

Core technical elements to deploy the infrastructure for GSIS:

GSSDIC

SoilSTATglobal SDI design

SoilML

+ voluntary contributions/tools by partners

National SDIs

Progress SoilSTAT

1. Concept note for SoilSTAT, including the GSP soil information portal with products and services based on an underlying infrastructure for spatial soil data (SDI for soil) (by FAO)

2. Feasibility study for soil monitoring (P4WG)

SoilSTAT acc. to P4IP

Concept Note SoilSTAT/SDI

FAO Task force Table of Contents 1. BACKGROUND AND REQUIREMENTS ..................................................................................... 3

1.1 Principles for data exchange: distributed system ............................................................... 3 1.2 Network ............................................................................................................................... 4

2 SPATIAL DATA INFRASTRUCTURE (SDI) AT FAO ................................................................. 4 2.1 Functionalities and tools ................................................................................................. 5

2.1.1 GSP soil data portal ............................................................................................... 5 2.1.2 Soil data discovery services .................................................................................. 5 2.1.3 Soil data view services .......................................................................................... 6 2.1.4 Soil data download services .................................................................................. 6 2.1.5 Rights management and licensing......................................................................... 6 2.1.6 Transformation services ........................................................................................ 6 2.1.7 Other domain-specific services .............................................................................. 7

3 CONCEPTUAL ARCHITECTURE................................................................................................ 8 4 REFERENCE ARCHITECTURE .................................................................................................. 8

4.1 GeoNetwork ....................................................................................................................... 9 4.2 GeoServer ........................................................................................................................ 10 4.3 Partner-SDIs .................................................................................................................... 10

5 Soil-SDI DEPLOYMENT ARCHITECTURE ............................................................................... 10 5.1 Soil SDI for the Global Soil Partnership ......................................................................... 1 5.2 Hardware (incl. cost) ........................................................................................................ 1 5.3 Software (incl. cost) .......................................................................................................... 1 5.4 Maintenance (incl. cost) ................................................................................................... 1

Planning document

Review: P4WG and GSSDIC

Soil SDI: technical concept of the Global Soil Information System

GSP Soil Portal

WMS, WFS, WCS

National data

Sufficient technical capacityCapcity building

Pillar 4/SoilSTAT

Metadata editorCatalogue ServiceThesaurusQuality controlDocumentationData upload tools and

data storage (centralized)

Registry

Standards (Pillar 4+5): — SoilML — Content

specifications— Transformation

services

Lack of technical capacity

Liscensing Web Security Service

SDI Tools

Discovery servicesInvoking servicesWeb processing services

Register products in GEOSSUpdate SWSR

View service Download service

Central DB(centralized repository)

Web Services

Requires bilateral data sharing

agreement

GSP PortalPortal Start page/

Portal servicesHome, my GSP soil, Site map, Help, Contact, LanguagesMain menu: Search, Service, Maps, Printing, About GSP GSIS

Functionalities

Discovery: Metadata and address management/ search

Client Application:- Management of search queries1): browsing of content of

the FAO metadata catalogue, or other catalogues from distributed catalogue services

- Catalogue service web interface: access to metadata; link with other metadata catalogues

Web editor - Access to metadata- Address management (record, update)- Build and manage work flow from Search to View to

Download- Metadata entries, link with metadata catalogue- Language of the editor is English.

View Map Viewer: load WMS from the Search-result list to the viewer.

Download Register and execute download services (GML data)

General architecture blueprint

Advantages: - FOSS software

can be easily implemented nationally

- Installation guideline and good practice

Pillar 5

SoilML Information Model= the core element of the specification to develop

interoperable soil data web services (WMS, WFS)

Existing activities:

GSPSoil Sciences

IUSS WG Soil Information standards

Global Soil Infor-mation System

Interoperability experiment

OGC ISOSoilML

ISO 28258 Conceptual Model

Pillar 4 and 5

Ag Domain WG

Þ Integration and resource mobilization needed

OGC Interoperability Experiment: results

A new draft generic model has been designed:Soil IE (Ritchie et al. 2016):

ISO Standard development SoilML• Will stop the stop the revision process and wait for joint

(GSP/OGC/ISO/IUSS) follow-up in cooperation with GODAN WG

www.opengeospatial.org/docs/er

– it matches the conceptual needs of the GlobalSoilMap specifications– it exceeds the coverage of the ISO 28258 (SoilML), IS0/IUSS and

eSoTerML schema;– it is broadly equivalent to the INSPIRE soil model (Europe);– it requires further reworking in order to better allow class and

property extensions.

GODAN supports the proactive sharing of open data to make information about agriculture and nutrition available, accessible and usable to deal with the urgent challenge of ensuring world food security.

Agriculture Data Interest Group (IGAD): a domain-oriented interest group to work on all issues related to data important for the development of global agriculture

NewGODAN Soil Data Working group !

Joint venture to align initiatives towards SoilML

Currently CSIRO, ISRIC, Landcare, FAO Interact with larger public-private soil data

interest group Mobilize resouces for building the distributed

system as envisaged by GSP

GODAN Soil Data Working group http://www.godan.info/working-groups/soil-data

1. Travel funds for GSP partners in need, in order to engage in the building of a distributed system/SoilML

2016: RDA-IGAD/GODAN technical workshop, Tokyo (invited members from Pillar 4/5 Asian Soil Partnership)

2017: RDA-IGAD/GODAN technical workshop, Barcelona (1 or 2 day workshop during 3 – 7 April): members of the European Soil Partnership are especially welcome

2. Project development and discussion with potential funders

Other ongoing Pillar 5 activity:Exchange of harmonized soil profile descriptions

- FAO (2006) soil profile description is basis- Revision of FAO (2006) is task identified in Pillar 5- Reasons for ISO revision, e.g. improve encoding (link to ISO

28258 SoilML)

Ongoing revision of ISO 25177 „Soil Quality – Field Description“ since Oct 2014

GSP-INSII received 3 month informal time window to review current community draft!

Document wil be circulated to INSII members for voluntary review.