Tuesday 20 March 2012

• The Value of Global Soil Information to the International Plant Nutrition Institute - Terry Roberts
• Soil Information for policy making - Thomas Straßburger, EC – DG ENV
• Soil information demand for crop simulation, Introducing AquaCrop -
  Pasquale Steduto
• Soil information for forest soils and carbon monitoring - Rainer Baritz, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources
• The Need for Soil Information in the Foundations’ Agricultural Development Strategy - Christian Witt, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
• Status of global soil information, Adopting new technology and rebuilding institutions - Neil McKenzie
• Global Soil Data Task, part of Earth Data Sets - Vincent van Engelen
• Role of soil information for the implementation of the UNCCD
• GSP: Soil Data and Information Pillar - Parviz Koohafkan
• Soil data needs for agronomists - Achim Dobermann, International Rice Resarch Institute IRRI
• The Harmonized World Soil Database (HWSD), A Global Soil Information System, Freddy Nachtergaele and Harrij van Velthuizen
• Status of Soil Information in Asia - Ganlin Zhang and Ronald Vargas
• Status and Needs of Soil Information in Africa - Martin Yemefack
• Improving fertilization practices of small farmers with help of soil geo-database - Soil and Fertilizer Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

Wednesday 21 March 2012

• e-SOTER Regional pilot platform as EU contribution to a Global Soil Observing System, A new classification of soil parent material, Research about PM in soil mapping - Ulrich Schuler
• Integration of terrain, parent material and soil information in e-SOTER at scale 1:250.000 - Michael Bock
• e-SOTER Regional pilot platform as EU contribution to a Global Soil Observing System, Validation and Uncertainty Analysis of e-SOTER products - Bas Kempen, Gerard Heuvelink, Tereza Zádorová, Vít enížek, Jacqueline Hannam, Rainer Baritz and Ulrich Schuler
• e-SOTER Regional pilot platform as EU contribution to a Global Soil Observing System Application of e-SOTER approach in Morocco: opportunities and constraints - INRA-Morocco
• A new System of Terrain Classification - Rüdiger Köthe
• Soil Atlas of Africa - Arwyn Jones, Joint Research Centre, Soil Action
• Tthe use of Geological information for soil mapping, Raimonda Kasparinskis, Faculty of Geography and Earth Sciences, University of Latvia
• e-SOTER Regional pilot platform as EU contribution to a Global Soil Observing System
• Re evaluating African arable lands with new tools
• e-SOTER Regional pilot platform as EU contribution to a Global Soil Observing System Enhanced SOTER database for a study area in the UK - Joanna Zawadzka
• Towards the LAC soil information system - Aracely Castro
• Status of the soil atlas of Africa and Latin America - Ciro Gardi, Arwyn Jones Joint Research Centre (JRC), IES - Institute for Environment and Sustainability
• Developing the soil component of e-SOTER - Szent István University Soil Team, Erika Michéli and Vince Láng
• e-SOTER Regional pilot platform as EU contribution to a Global Soil Observing System - Vincent van Engelen
• Determination of current and potential soil erosion of Chile Eugenio Gonzalez Aguilo, Ministerio de Agricultura
• e-SOTER Regional pilot platform as EU contribution to a Global Soil Observing System Standards and services for Soil and Terrain Data Exchange: SoTerML - Daniel Simms and Stephen Hallett
• e-SOTER Regional pilot platform as EU contribution to a Global Soil observing System Enhancing the terrain component in SOTER database - Joanna Zawadzka
• e-SOTER Regional pilot platform as EU contribution to a Global Soil Observing System Development of a terrain and parent material platform at scale 1:1 million - Endre Dobos

Thursday 22 March 2012

• Processing and integrating soil map information from different regions into China Soil Geo-data base at 1:50,000 scale - Weili Zhang
• Digital Soil Assessment, from data to information and knowledge - Thomas Mayr, National Soil Resources Institute, Cranfield University
• IUSS WGS SIS - Distributed services, information systems, digital products, the European GS Soil Project, communicating infrastructures - Rainer Baritz, Hannes I. Reuter, Peter Wilson, Einar Eberhardt on behalf of the IUSS WG SIS and the GS Soil Project
• Digital soil mapping from legacy data and hyperspectral imagery in CapBon (Tunisia) First results and perspectives - Philippe Lagacherie, Cécile Gomez, Sinan Bacha, Rossano Ciampalini, Hedi Hamrouni, Pascal Monestiez
• Data specifications and information structures for soils data - Stephen Hallett and Daniel Simms, National Soil Resources Institute, Cranfield University
• Harmonization of soil methods and data - Allan Lilly and Helaina Black, The James Hutton Institute
• Rationalization and harmonization of soil legacy information, Jacqueline Hannam, National Soil Resources Institute, Cranfield University
• Progress for the GlobalSoilMap.net-North American Node, Towards Global Soil Information: Activities with the GEO Task Global Soil Data Jon Hempel, USDA-NRCS
• Electronic soil data storage: possible approaches with an emphasis on the Russian Soil Database - Pavel Krasilnikov Eurasian Center for Food Securityand Alexander Ivanov Soil Science Faculty Lomonosov Moscow State University
• Global Soil Spectral Library, A global reference, spectral library and conversion database for harmonization of legacy soil data for the GlobalSoilMap.net project - World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) & ISRIC
• Towards a Universal Soil Classification System a working Group of the International Union of Soil Sciences - Jon Hempel, United states department of Agriculture NRCS
• The collaborative Soil App and advances in augmented reality visualization - Barry Rawlins, Wayne Shelley, Rob Pedley & Russell Lawley, Soil Science, British Geological Survey
• From polygon based soil unit mapping to probabilistic maps of soil properties in the West asia - North Africa region, E. De Pauw and P. Hawinkel
• DSM in Argentina: challenges to overcome - Marcos Angelini, Soil Institute, National Institute of Agriculture Technology
• SoLIM: An Effort Moving DSM into the Digital Era Overview and Recent Developments - A-Xing Zhu, Department of Geography University of Wisconsin-Madison and Institute of Geographical Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences
• Global Soil Information Facilities - current status - HI Reuter T Hengl G Heuvelink NH Batjes J Leenaars P Tempel P Bindraban
• Africa Soil Profiles database - Johan Leenaars

Friday 23 March 2012

• Global soil information: building an enduring and authoritative system to monitor the Earth’s soil resources. Proposed strategy for Pillar Four of the Global Soil Partnership - Neil McKenzie
• Towards targeted global and regional soil information: inputs for consideration - Luca Montanarella
• Drafting working group - GSP pillar 4 governance