NEC06075 NERC Innovation - mySoil survey-grade development

我们的首要目标是监测全国和全球的土壤性质及其变化。这一点很重要，因为土壤是缓冲气候变化的主要陆地碳储存，而管理影响土壤健康，例如酸度、结构和养分输送。土地所有者和政策制定者需要了解改良土壤的干预措施是否有效，以及是否需要能够快速获取数据的工具。这项提议建立在全球领先的NERC mySoil数字iPhone应用程序的基础上，全球有超过5万人在使用这款应用程序。MySoil在iPhone上提供基本的土壤信息，并允许最终用户通过众包上传数据和照片，上传了4000多条记录和过去几年的记录。在与我们的行业合作伙伴协商后，我们建议将NERC mySoil应用程序进一步开发为行业标准、测量级别的应用程序，可以在线和离线收集地理参考土壤数据。每年我们无法获取数百万GB的非结构化土壤数据，这些数据是为小企业分析的，其中只有2%可以形成大量的社区资源，用于制作土壤地图或对土壤数据进行基准/比较。我们将与国家信托基金、自然资源管理实验室、农业工业联合会和欧盟联合研究中心合作，将NERC工具纳入其农业环境业务或监测以及公共和商业推广。我们的目标是扩展离线能力，并开发收集土壤信息的现场协议，以便为土壤变化指标提供信息。翻译成几种常见的欧洲语言将确保广泛的可及性。我们调查的初步数据显示，农业、园艺、保护和教育部门是通过NERC数字平台(MySoil和英国土壤观测站)提供的信息的最大受益者。我们的合作伙伴与所有这些部门合作，寻求一种可免费获得的工具，既可供专业人员使用，也可供普通公众使用。他们将利用其广泛的资源来确定一系列最终用户，以便跨业务部门进行测试，并将帮助进行翻译。从我们对当前终端用户的调查中确定的主要好处是，“增加了他们对土壤资源的知识和认识”，以及“改善了他们的产出和过程”。这项建议的重点是通过帮助我们的合作伙伴收集数据，让他们了解他们感兴趣的土地上的土壤状况和变化，从而改进产出和进程。这些数据将支持国家信托基金的土地能力评估和JRC/欧盟统计局的卢卡斯调查(土地使用和复盖面积框架调查)；这两项调查为政策提供了参考。此外，公司、科学家和公众受益于可纳入开放土壤测绘项目的数据，如世界土壤信息中心制作的SOIL GRID。

Our overarching aim is to monitor soil properties and how they change, nationally and globally. This is important because soils are the major store of terrestrial carbon that buffers climate change, and management impacts soil health, e.g. acidity, structure and nutrient delivery. Landowners and policy makers need to understand if interventions to improve soils work and need tools that enable rapid data acquisition. This proposal builds on the world leading NERC mySoil digital iphone application used by more than 50,000 people globally. mySoil provides basic soil information on an iphone and allows endusers to upload data and photos through crowd sourcing, with more than 4000 records uploaded and the past few years. In consultation with our industry partners we propose to further develop the NERC mySoil app into an industry standard, survey grade application that can collect georeferenced soil data, on and offline. Each year we fail to capture £millions of unstructured soil data which is analysed for small businesses, just 2% of which could form a substantial community resource for producing soil maps or benchmarking/comparing soil data. We will be working with the National Trust, NRM laboratories, Agricultural Industries Confederation and EU Joint Research Centre to incorporate NERC tools into their agri-environment business or monitoring and public and business outreach. Our objectives are to expand the offline capability, and develop field protocols for collecting soil information that can inform indicators of soil change. Translation into several common European languages will ensure wide accessibility. Initial data from our survey indicates that the agricultural, horticultural, conservation and education sectors are the greatest beneficiaries of information delivered through NERC digital platforms, both mySoil and the UK Soil Observatory. Our partners work with all these sectors and seek to have a tool that is freely available and can be used by both professionals and the general public. They will use their extensive resources to identify a range of end users for testing across business sectors and will help with translation. The major benefits identified from our survey of current end users are, 'increasing their knowledge and awareness of soil resources' and 'improving their outputs and processes'. This proposal focuses on improving outputs and processes by helping our partners to collect data to inform them on the state and change of soils on the lands for which they have interest. The data will support the National Trusts Land Capability assessment and the JRC/Eurostat LUCAS survey (Land Use and Coverage Area frame Survey); both of these inform policy. Moreover, companies, scientists and the public benefit from data that can be incorporated into open soil mapping projects like soilGRIDS produced by the World Soil Information Centre.