Environmental Assessment of Soil for Monitoring (ENVASSO)

Country / Region: Europe; regional pilot areas

Begin of project: January 1, 2006

End of project: December 31, 2007

Status of project: March 13, 2007

Source: ENVASSO

The project ENVASSO (Environmental Assessment of Soil for Monitoring) aims to design and test a single, integrated, operational and EU-wide set of measurable criteria and indicators as a basis for a harmonised comprehensive European soil and land information system. On completion, the project will provide formal protocols, procedures, tools and recommendations for collecting, organising, interpreting and reporting harmonised European-wide soil information. The research is structured into 5 work packages.

The contribution of BGR has two focal areas:

(1) in WP 1 – "Criteria and Indicators" to analyse and to provide in-depth knowledge about indicators in the area of diffuse contamination.

(2) coordination and work lead in WP 3 – "Database Design and Selection". The main product in this work package is the development of a database for soil monitoring data (soil profile and analytical data).

Project contributions:

• ENVASSO Soil Database (SoDa)
• ENVASSO work packages
• Products of work package 3 "Database Design and Selection"