NEC06075 NERC Innovation - mySoil survey-grade development

我们的首要目标是监测土壤特性及其在国家和全球范围内的变化。这一点很重要，因为土壤是缓冲气候变化的陆地碳的主要储存库，土壤管理影响土壤健康，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善土壤的干预措施是否有效，并需要能够快速获取数据的工具。该提案建立在世界领先的NERC mySoil数字iphone应用程序的基础上，该应用程序在全球有超过50,000人使用。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，过去几年上传的记录超过4000条。在与我们的行业合作伙伴协商后，我们建议进一步将NERC mySoil应用程序开发成一个行业标准，调查级应用程序，可以在线和离线收集地理参考土壤数据。每年，我们都无法捕获数百万英镑用于小企业分析的非结构化土壤数据，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基准/比较土壤数据。我们将与国民信托、NRM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中。我们的目标是扩大离线能力，并制定收集土壤信息的现场协议，这些信息可以为土壤变化指标提供信息。翻译成几种欧洲通用语言将确保广泛的可访问性。我们调查的初步数据表明，农业、园艺、保护和教育部门是通过NERC数字平台（mySoil和UK Soil Observatory）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，并寻求拥有一个免费提供的工具，可供专业人员和公众使用。他们将利用其广泛的资源来确定跨业务部门测试的一系列最终用户，并将帮助翻译。从我们对当前终端用户的调查中确定的主要好处是“增加他们对土壤资源的知识和意识”和“改善他们的产出和过程”。该建议的重点是通过帮助我们的合作伙伴收集数据，使他们了解他们感兴趣的土地上的土壤状况和变化，从而改善产出和流程。这些数据将支持国家信托土地能力评估和JRC/Eurostat LUCAS调查（土地使用和覆盖面积框架调查）；这两者都为政策提供了信息。此外，公司、科学家和公众可以从数据中受益，这些数据可以纳入开放的土壤测绘项目，如世界土壤信息中心制作的土壤网格。

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.