ECALP - The Austrian Pilot Area Analysis of harmonization problems

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ECALP - The Austrian Pilot Area Analysis of
harmonization problems
A. Freudenschuß, E. Obersteiner, M. Englisch,
E. Herzberger
Meeting on Harmonization of Soil Information in
the Alps The ECALP Project Results and
Prospects 06/07.02.2006, JRC
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Content

• Location and Characteristics of the Austrian
  pilot area
• Available information for the pilot area
• Recognised harmonisation problems
• Outlook

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Location
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Pilot area - characteristics
Selection of the Pilot Area was limited to the
available soil information Location Carinthia,
inner alpine basin Elevation 400 800 m
(a.s.l.) Land use 47 forest, 45 agricultural
land, 5 settlements, 3 water bodies Parent
material Fine and coarse moraine and fluviatile
material Dominant soil type Dystric Cambisols
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Pilot area - available information

• (Digital) Agricultural Soil map (125,000)
• - (Dominant) Soil Type
• - Soil Parent Material
• - OC
• - Erosion risk
• Forest Site mapping (110,000) - Dobrova
• - (Dominant) Soil Type
• - Soil Parent Material
• - OC
• Forest Soil Monitoring 3 Sites and
• Environmental Soil Inventory of Carinthia -
  16 Sites
• - Profile description, OC, Soil parent material
• gt Total 179 soil profiles
• DEM (25 m)

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Digital Soil Map and Forest Site Mapping (BFW)
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Harmonisation problems

• ? Development of Network with partners
• ? Description of soil profiles (field
  experience)
• ? Exchange of soil experts knowledge
• ? Aggregation of soil information
• ? Manual 1250.000 database gaps in
  classification of hierarchies (e.g. geology,
  water content)
• ? Transfer functions for the conversion of
  different analytical methods (Corg)
• ? Soil Erosion Models available are not
  developed for the Alpine Territory, different
  aspects of Soil Erosion in the Alps (e.g.
  landslides)

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Outlook - results

• Is our scale adequate to address soil threats in
  the Alps?
• Funding of further activities?
• Extension of the exchange format What are
  further important parameters?
• Purpose of the result at EU, national and
  regional level

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