-- Name -- soil plot -- Definition -- spot where a specific soil investigation is carried out. -- Description -- NOTE 1: For observed soil profiles, a spot location has to be defined. It is the place on which the observation is made. The profile is an observation made on the plot. NOTE 2: All types of plots only provide locality, but no soil information itself. EXAMPLE A borehole is the location where you gather the information to abstract a profile information from. SOURCE GS Soil
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Soil\Soil
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4.0
-- Name -- observed soil profile -- Definition -- a representation of a soil profile found on a specific location which is described on the basis of observations in a trial pit or with a borehole. -- Description -- The observed soil profile corresponds to a set of data taken directly from a georeferenced soil profile, described in the field, and often sampled and analyzed in the laboratory.
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Soil\Soil
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4.0
-- Name -- soil site -- Definition -- area within a larger survey, study or monitored area, where a specific soil investigation is carried out. -- Description -- Site provides the object to describe: a.) the surroundings of the plot and/or b.) the larger piece of land that is directly linked to and described by all soil investigations on its one or more spots (SoilPlots). It thus provides the object to which soil data of different kind (or the same kind, but at different points in time, e.g. in soil monitoring) obtained on different plots is related as if it would have been collected at the very same place. This allows for: 1. combination of data that cannot be obtained on the very same place EXAMPLE: a soil pit and investigations on earthworm abundance cannot be done in the same place, but possibly some metres apart from each other. Nonetheless shall the results of both investigations be combined to inform about the soil state. or 2. comparison of soil condition after some time has elapsed. EXAMPLE: Organic carbon stock has been investigated using data from two monitoring periods that had to be conducted on spatially slightly separated places because the sampling is destructive. Nonetheless are the results of both periods regarded as giving an idea how organic carbon stock has changed over the years at the same place. The site is also the object to state the date and time information on validity, etc. The soil site might have delineation, but can be located with a centre or reference point location only. Delineated soil sites - possibly in the form of cadastral parcels - are especially used in the inventory of contaminated areas. NOTE Any plot can be linked to one specific site only, but several plots to one site. SOURCE GS Soil, modified
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Soil\Soil
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4.0
-- Name -- soil derived object -- Definition -- A spatial object type for representing spatial objects with soil-related property derived from one or more soil and possibly other non soil properties. -- Description -- NOTE Soil thematic maps can be derived directly from the involved soil database (organic matter content, pH, texture, etc.) or they can be derived by using pedotransfer functions or pedotransfer rules (e.g. plant available water in the rooting depth). Derivation can be simple extraction from a single data field, or a complex combination of different kind of data and application of e.g. mathematical or expert knowledge-based procedures.
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Soil\Soil
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4.0
-- Name -- soil theme coverage -- Definition -- a spatial object type that holds values for a property based on one or more soil and possibly non soil parameters within its spatial, temporal or spatiotemporal domain. -- Description -- SOURCE Adapted from "Coverage" [ISO 19123:2005].
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Soil\Soil
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4.0
-- Name -- soil horizon -- Definition -- Domain of a soil with a certain vertical extension, more or less parallel to the surface and homogeneous for most morphological and analytical characteristics, developed in a parent material layer through pedogenic processes or made up of in-situ sedimented organic residues of up-growing plants (peat). -- Description -- SOURCE ISO/WD 28258, modified NOTE Horizons may be part of a layer.
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Soil\Soil
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4.0
-- Name -- soil theme descriptive coverage -- Definition -- a spatial object type that is associated to the soil theme coverage and holds additional information on values of a property of the soil theme coverage. -- Description -- This coverage can only exist in relation to a base coverage SoilThemeCoverage, it has the same domain and spatial extent as the base coverage. And it gives extra information on the values of the base coverages SOURCE Adapted from "Coverage" [ISO 19123:2005]. EXAMPLE coverage indicating the confidence level of the pH values reported in the associated SoilThemeCoverage.
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Soil\Soil
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4.0
-- Name -- derived soil profile -- Definition -- non-point-located soil profile that serves as a reference profile for a specific soil type in a certain geographical area. -- Description -- The characteristics of a derived soil profile are mostly derived (e.g. averaged) from one or several observed profiles of the same soil type in the area of interest, or are designed with expert knowledge about the same kind of landscape. NOTE 1 The derived soil profile represents the average or typical profile that characterizes the so called soil typological unit, soil series.
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Soil\Soil
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4.0
-- Name -- soil body -- Definition -- Part of the soil cover that is delineated and that is homogeneous with regard to certain soil properties and/or spatial patterns. -- Description -- The soils present in the soil body are characterized by one or more derived soil profiles that are found together in the area specified by the “geometry” attribute of the SoilBody. NOTE 1 If several derived soil profiles are used to describe the soil body, the spatial distribution of the soil they describe within the soil body is not defined, but their presence is indicated by a range percentage of area. The underlying reason behind the fact of not delineating the different soils within a soil body is the target scale of the map or spatial dataset. This means that geographical accuracy and preciseness of soil characterization depend on and vary with the target scale, i.e. the soil body can be delineated differently among scales. NOTE 2 The concept of soil body is a correlate of the concept soil mapping unit, and the soils of a soilbody might form e.g. a soil association, a soil complex, etc.
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Soil\Soil
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4.0
-- Name -- soil profile -- Definition -- description of the soil that is characterized by a vertical succession of profile elements. -- Description -- NOTE The soil profile is abstracted from observations in a trial pit or a boring, or derived from expert knowledge using other soil profiles.
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Soil\Soil
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4.0
-- Name -- Soil layer -- Definition -- domain of a soil with a certain vertical extension developed through non-pedogenic processes, displaying a change in structure and/or composition to possibly over- or underlying adjacent domains, or a grouping of soil horizons or other sub-domains with a special purpose. -- Description -- NOTE1 Different kinds of layer concepts are covered by this definition. EXAMPLE 1 Geogenic layers: These are domains, resulting from e.g. sedimentation (as non-pedogenic) processes, that display an unconformity to possibly over- or underlying adjacent domains. EXAMPLE 2 Topsoil and Subsoil: These can be domains that group different soil horizon types (e.g. A vs. B horizons), or a special case of fixed depths with only two depth ranges (e.g. 0-15 cm: topsoil and, 15-75 cm: subsoil). EXAMPLE 3 Depth intervals: They are often used in soil monitoring, sampling of contaminated sites and in modelling and include: (i) depth increments (also called fixed depths) that are often used for sampling, e.g. 0-30cm, 30-60cm, and so on, (ii) a single depth range in which a soil sample (”specimen”) is taken and for which the analytical result is valid, and (iii) soil slicing, that is, profile segmentation according to a specified vector, for instance, either regularly spaced intervals (1cm), or a user-defined vector of segment boundaries (i.e. 0-10, 10-25, 25-50, 50-100). Slicing is used in modelling to generate continuous depth functions for soil properties. EXAMPLE 4: In the framework of soils deeply modified by human activity, artificial layers may be due to different kinds of deposits (concrete, bricks, …). SOURCE WD ISO28258, modified
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Soil\Soil
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4.0
-- Name -- groundwater profile -- Definition -- body of groundwater with boundaries in 3 dimensions (surface and depth) characterized by some property (the value of a certain parameter). -- Description -- Used in connection to pollution: giving the extent of the groundwater body that is polluted over a threshold value of concentration of a certain pollutant. Generally it is dynamic and dependent on flow rates of the groundwater, the presence of dense soil layers, solubility and adsorption/desorption behaviour of the pollutants.
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Soil\SoilContamination
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3.0
-- Name -- contaminated soil site -- Definition -- Site on which manmade substances are present in levels and amounts considered to be a hazard, in soil, groundwater and waste (on or below surface level). -- Description -- Site where levels of contaminants in soil or groundwater are or were above applicable threshold values, as concluded from a main site investigation and over a surface or in a volume not to be neglected (up to local regulations and authorities). Irrespective of the current status of management measures or temporary safety measures taken or to be taken after risk assessment.
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Soil\SoilContamination
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3.0
-- Name -- possibly contaminated soil site -- Definition -- a site with a suspicion of pollution above threshold values which has not been confirmed by a main site investigation with a verdict of the local authority. -- Description -- It is always the candidate for further investigations, generally with a tiered approach in which it will remain possibly polluted until after the main site investigation in which hazards may be confirmed or rejected.
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Soil\SoilContamination
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3.0
-- Name -- species aggregation unit -- Definition -- The aggregation unit over which the species is distributed. -- Description -- (INSPIRE, 2007: definition of theme Species Distribution) The Geographical distribution of occurrence of animal and plant species can be aggregated by grid, region, administrative unit or other analytical unit. NOTE This is the old featureType from PS TWG. Remove
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Species Distribution\ExternallyManaged
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-- Name -- species distribution coverage -- Definition -- The spatial representation of a species occurrence. -- Description --
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Species Distribution\SpeciesDistribution - Coverage
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-- Name -- species distribution unit -- Definition -- Occurrence of animal and plant species aggregated by grid, region, administrative unit or other analytical unit. -- Description -- Pan-European, national or local mapping initiatives, resulting in spatial data for species in terrestrial and marine environments, e.g. for birds, insects, mammals, amphibians, reptiles, fish or vascular plants. NOTE 1 Only species are mentioned in the INSPIRE definition. But earlier INSPIRE documents (INPIRE IMS, 2003) mentions both species or species grouped e.g. to families. So we interprete species as taxa, which means taxonomic units at any systematic rank, like subspecies, species, genus, family etc.
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Species Distribution\SpeciesDistribution - Coverage
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-- Name -- species distribution unit -- Definition -- Additional information on the distribution such as metadata at object level and observational data.
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Species Distribution\SpeciesDistributionExtension
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3.0
-- Name -- source information -- Definition -- Contains metadata about specific instances of species distribution. -- Description -- May be shared among several species distributions.
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Species Distribution\SpeciesDistributionExtension
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3.0
-- Name -- species distribution data set -- Definition -- This data set is a collection of individual spatial objects (units) in a distribution of species. -- Description -- Collection of individual spatial objects of allowed geometry where a species occurs.
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Inspire Consolidated UML Model\Themes\Annex III\Species Distribution\SpeciesDistribution
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4.0