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

没有土壤就没有生命，土壤提供食物、饲料、纤维和木材。了解土壤是如何随着土地利用管理、气候变化和污染而变化的，是环境研究的前沿，可以减少土壤退化，实现粮食生产、废物转化和回收以及碳储存等重要功能。我们已经发现了一个重要的市场失灵，它导致了行业和政策高质量战略土壤数据的丧失。农民每年收集土壤样本，并在商业实验室进行分析，这些数据缺乏基本的位置信息，通常是通过基于纸张的系统收集的，抑制了可能刺激新商业机会的数据流。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。农业每年收集的50多万份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，有GPS定位和认可的实验室分析。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，比如为什么我们达到了一个产量平台，为什么作物轮作后产量会下降，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样本将解决这个问题，这是一个基于网络和应用程序的数字数据捕获系统，建立在久经考验的NERC iRecord平台上。我们将：i)建立一个数字数据中心，供业主私下存储或共享行业数据，使匿名数据可发现并可互操作。ii)一个带有GPS的网络和智能手机土壤样本数据收集系统，以及ii)为行业的解释性基准门户创建匿名数字数据管道。这将为收集和使用高度匿名的“智能土壤数据”开辟新的市场和商机。我们称我们的系统为“我的土壤样本”，它建立在我们成功的众包土壤数据使用“我的土壤”（4000+记录）和野生动物数据使用“iRecord”（50,000+记录）。新的数据采集系统将提供一种战略数据资源，将增加数据的价值，并为行业和政策制定者提供信息。这一点现在至关重要，因为英国脱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。我们从未像现在这样需要了解我们的自然资源如何应对这一经济和社会挑战。我们将利用群众（农业和保护社区）的力量，结合久经考验的NERC数字众包数据采集系统，包括网络和应用程序，来支持产业和政策。

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.