Title
Soil Information System for the Danube basin at the scale 1:250,000
Subject
(probably OK ; data to get from Beata – data for you and internal use
only)
Soil point data from the countries that intersect the Danube river basin.
(for building a soil database that can support the application of the
LISFLOOD model in the Danube area).
Keywords
Soil database, soil, soils, Danube, Odra basin
Publisher
European Commission – DG JRC
Status
On-going
Abstract
Extreme weather conditions of the last years connected with heavy rains
and flooding invoked the needs of prediction of such phenomena. Flood
risk assessment models based on the data from different parts of
environmental information sources serve to these purposes.
The Soil Information System of the Danube River Basin (SIS-Danube) is
an integral part of the Flood Risk Assessment Project, which is executed
among the institutional JRC tasks. It is also an integral part of the
Georeferenced Soil Database for Europe at the scale 1:250,000, one of the
main elements of the European Soil Information System (EUSIS).
Construction of the database is based on several materials: The
Georeferenced Soil Database for Europe, Manual of Procedures, Version
1.1. (ESB, 2003); LISFLOOD, a distributed water-balance, flood
simulation and flood inundation model, Version 1.0. (Ad De Roo, Jutta
Thielen, Ben Gouweleew. EC/JRC, 2002) and the procedures and
experiences developed in the pilot project creating the soil digital database
for the Odra basin at the scale 1:250,000 (final report, Warsaw, 2001).
The database structure is based on soil and landscape data in three levels:
soil region, soilscape and soil body. Soil regions are characterised by
dominant soil type, dominant parent material, climatic data, altitudes and
major landforms. A soilscape could be defined as that portion of the soil
cover which groups soil bodies having former or present functional
relationships, and that can be represented at 1:250,000 scale. A soil body
is a portion of the soil cover with diagnostic characteristics resulting from
similar processes of soil genesis. Structure of the LISFLOOD model is
based on the input and output data. Input data include: CORINE land
cover, Soil Database Parameters, Flow rates, Meteorological Data,
Geological Data and Digital Elevation Model. Output data cover annual
results about daily discharge (Water balance module), daily-weekly
results and hourly discharge (Flood simulation module), hourly-daily
results and flood extent (Floodplain inundation Module).
Soil database parameters needed for the model comprise general
information as dominant soil in soilscape and number of soil region.
Information about physiography of studied area is represented via major
landform, regional slope, hypsometry degree of dissection, ground water
table, presence of permanent water logging, minimum and maximum
altitude, relief intensity, slope length and dominant slope and surface
form. Parent material includes information about its kind and is
represented via parent material surface level, depth to parent material
change and parent material subsurface level. Basic soil properties needed
for the model include information about textural composition of topsoil
and subsoil, bulk density, organic matter content and pH.
The Soil Information System of the Danube river basin can serve as an
example of the multifunctional use of soil databases.
Description
(objectives, scope)
Description
(background)
Description
(contents)
In the context of the Flood Risk Assessment Project within the Land
Management and Natural Hazards Unit of the JRC, the MOSES action is
collecting soil point data from the countries that intersect the Danube river
basin.
See objectives
On http://eusoils.jrc.it/projects/danubesis/index.htm, one finds more
details on the requirements of the soil data to be provided by the
participating countries.
Structure and contents of database are defined according to Manual of
Procedures, Vers. 1.1 from 2003 (ESB, IES/JRC), EUR 18092 EN.
(16/05/06) Current state : Soil profiles acquired from States within
theBasin: 7,695 points
Available
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Slovak Republic
Austria
Czech Republic
Romania
Hungary
Bosnja-Herzegovina
Pending
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Slovenia
Bulgaria
Croatia
Germany
Missing:
-
Serbia
Ukraine
Moldovja
All data will be integrated in a single database.
Source
The integrated database will serve to create soil maps for the Danube river
basin and to obtain derived soil properties data
Various soil institutions who deliver soil data under contracts managed by
DG JRC
Type
soil point data
Format
A number of separate spreadsheet data files ; each country provides
independently these files to JRC
Coverage
Danube basin and surrounding area
Scale/Resolution
1:250,000
Frequence of
Updates
One time effort
Last update
Contact
Rights /
Accessibility
URL
Beata Houskova (Beata.Houskova@jrc.it), JRC
Luca Montanarella (luca.montanarella@jrc.it), JRC
Marc Van Liedekerke (marc.van-liedekerke@jrc.it), JRC
All rights to EC DG JRC
http://eusoils.jrc.it/projects/danubesis/index.htm