NEC06484 UK: mySoil-sample, crowdsourcing digital soil data from industry and policy

没有土壤就没有生命来提供食物、饲料、纤维和木材。了解土壤如何随土地利用管理、气候变化和污染而变化，是环境研究的前沿，以减少退化并提供重要功能，如粮食生产、废物转化和回收以及碳储存。我们已经确定了一个重要的市场失灵，导致工业和政策的高质量战略土壤数据的损失。农民每年收集他们在商业实验室分析的土壤样本，这些数据缺乏基本的位置信息，通常是通过抑制数据流的纸质系统收集的，这将刺激新的商业机会。因此，我们将把农民的土壤分析转化为智能土壤数据，解开土壤的秘密。养殖业每年收集的50多万个土壤样本没有位置信息，也无法通过数字方式发现。“智能土壤数据”是数字化的、可发现的，具有GPS定位和经认可的实验室分析。通过使土壤数据智能化，我们可以开始解决我们需要大数据的问题，例如为什么我们达到了产量平台期，为什么轮作后产量会下降，土壤碳储量是否在下降？为了解开这些秘密，我们需要“智能土壤数据”。MySoil Sample将解决这一问题，这是一个基于Web和应用程序的数字数据捕获系统，构建在经过测试的NERC iRecord平台上。我们将：i)为业主建立一个数字数据中心，以私人存储或共享行业数据，使匿名数据可被发现和互操作。Ii)具有全球定位系统的网络和智能手机土壤样本数据收集系统；ii)创建匿名数字数据管道，以解释行业基准门户网站。这将为收集和使用高水平的匿名“智能土壤数据”开辟新的市场和商业机会。我们将我们的系统称为‘mySoil-Sample’，它建立在我们成功地使用‘mySoil’(4000多条记录)众包土壤数据和使用‘iRecord’(50,000多条记录)众包野生动物数据的基础上。新的数据采集系统将提供战略性数据资源，为数据增值，并为行业和政策制定者提供信息。这一点现在至关重要，因为英国退欧可能会给农民和农业企业带来一系列新的挑战，以保持竞争力。现在比以往任何时候都更需要了解我们的自然资源如何应对这一经济和社会挑战。我们将利用人群(农业和环境保护社区)的力量，结合经过测试的NERC数字众包数据获取系统，基于网络和应用程序来支持行业和政策。

There is no life without soil to provide food, feed, fibre and wood. Understanding how soils are changing in response to land use management, climate change, and pollution is at the forefront of environmental research to reduce degradation and deliver vital functions such as, food production, transforming and recycling waste, and storing carbon. We have identified an important market failure that results in the loss of high quality strategic soil data for industry and policy. Farmers collect soil samples every year that they have analysed in commercial laboratories, this data lacks basic location information and is generally collected through paper based systems inhibiting data flows that would stimulate new business opportunities. Therefore, we will turn farmer's soil analysis into 'smart soil data' to unlock the secrets of the soil. More than 0.5 million soil samples, collected by the farming industry every year are without location information and digitally undiscoverable. 'smart soil data' is digital, discoverable, with gps positioning and accredited laboratory analysis. By making soil data smart we can begin to address the questions for which we need big data, such as why have we reached a yield plateau, and why does yield decline follow crop rotation, is soil carbon stock declining? In order to unlock these secrets we need 'smart soil data'. MySoil sample will address this, a web and app based digital data capture system built on the tried and tested NERC iRecord platform. We will: i) build a digital data hub for owners to privately store or share industry data, making anonymized data discoverable and interoperable. ii) a web and smartphone soil sample data collection system with GPS, andiii) create anonymous digital data pipelines to interpretive benchmarking portals for industry. This will open up new markets and business opportunities for collecting and using high level anonymized, 'smart soil data'. We call our system 'mySoil-sample', which builds on our success in crowdsourcing soil data using 'mySoil' (4000+ records) and wildlife data using 'iRecord' (50,000+ records). The new data acquisition system will provide a strategic data resource that will add value to data and inform both industry and policy makers. This is now vital, as Brexit may pose a range of new challenges for farmers and agri-business to remain competitive. There has never been more need to understand how our natural resources can respond to this economic and societal challenge. We will use the power of the crowd (farming and conservation communities), combined with tried and tested NERC digital crowdsourcing data acquisition systems, both web and app based to support industry and policy.