tools for rational planning and urban soil management case study book demonstrating successful...

URBAN SMS Soil Management Strategy

Tools for rational planning and urban soil

management

Tomaž Vernik

Agricultural Institute of Slovenia

[email protected]

B.Vrščaj, T.Vernik , M.Šinkovec, J.Bergant

Agricultural institute of Slovenia

EUROSOIL 2012, Bari, Italy1

Content

• About the Urban SMS project

• Soil manager suite

• Web system • Admin

• User

• Desktop tool




About the Urban SMS

• 11 partners from 7 central EU countries (Germany, Austria,

Poland, Italy, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Slovenia)

• City of Stuttgart as a leading partner

• 7 pilot applications (Celje (development), Vienna (Salzburg &

Vienna – tool semantics), Stuttgart, Wroclaw, Bratislava, Milan, Prague)

• Funded by Central Europe program and EU regional

development fund

• Project budget of 1,3 million euro

• 3 years




Project goals

1. Reduction of soil consumption / soil sealing (German

goals for 2020)

2. Sustainable use of soils (considering soil functions)

3. Embedding soil information into spatial planning and

urban management practices

4. To gain benefits for society and the environment




Main deliverables:

1. Guide "Municipal soil manager“ development of strategies (WP3)

2. Software „Soil Manager Suite“ development of tools (WP4)

3. Action case study book demonstrating successful implementation and the benefits (WP5)

4. The communication package with awareness rising activities (WP6)




WEB system (portal):

ADMIN IT, soil experts

USER planers, decision makers…

interpreted

DATA

Algorithms

TOOLS

Interpretation,

suggestions




Tool list

ADMIN page

Data

management

tool setup




ADMIN page: Tool Definition & Administration

Input Data

Algorithms

Legend /

Interpretatio

n




Data layers Tool menu Data visualisation

WEB USER portal




Tools

Tool purpose

explanation

Required

datasets

Green dot appears when:

- layer is available

- the structure of the

layer is correct

Legend

Tool buttons




Tool report

Histogram

Basic

statistics

Class values

Colour

interpretation

Total poly area in

ha Area data

Data

interpretation




Tools

1. Ecosystem Soil Quality (ESQ)

2. Loss of soil resource

3. Soil contamination

a. Children's playground areas

b. Recreational areas

c. General agriculture

4. Sealing rate

5. Agricultural Soil Quality (ASQ)

6. Water drainage (WD)

7. Connectivity tool (CNT)

8. Proximity tool (PROX)

Nutrient status (NS)




Nutrient status (NS)

Supplementary tool which assess the

content of basic soil nutrients

(N,P,K) expressed as grid.

• interpretation of soil nutrition in 5

class quality system.

• The result was needed

the essential input data for other

tools.




Reflects soil capacity to perform

essential soil functions

• Multifunctional role of soils in one index.

• Regardless the land use

• ESQ stands for the quality

of soil in its broadest sense.

Ecosystem soil quality (ESQ)




Loss of Soil Resource (LSR)

Evaluates the loss of soil resource

• Assesses the impact of land use change

(soil sealing) on the soil resource

• Enables to compare different scenarios

(multiple assessments)




Soil contamination (SCx)

Evaluates the soil contamination

according to the national threshold

values

• SC Food for agricultural production

• SC Play for children playgrounds.

• SC Sport for sporting areas.




Agricultural soil quality (ASQ)

Defines the suitability / quality of

land (not soil) for general agriculture.

• Agricultural suitability of certain plot of

land in a single index

• Calculation also considers “proximity to

urban” (compacting not expanding)




Sealing rate (SR)

Calculates soil sealing rate within the analysed

area.

• rate of sealed / unsealed soils)

• the distribution/distance of/to green areas

• The ratio is then used to

argument the need for new

green areas in the city




Water drainage (WD)

The WD tool is used to assess the

risk of water logging on flat non

sealed soil.

• It assess the extent of low infiltration

rates

• visualises the possibility of water

logging on flat areas




Connectivity (CNT)

Assesses the relation of the

analysed area to other

objects (e.g. distribution of

green parks (poly), location

data (point), etc.).

• Relationship between the

different objects and their

distances/impact to green areas

in the city (points or polygons)

• Used for planning green corridors

in the city.




Proximity (PROX)

This tool describes the increased

benefits available to inhabitants

living closer to opened areas with

undisturbed, quality soil (eg. parks,

recreational areas...)

• The partners from Milano wanted to

introduce a tool which will help them to

evaluate the value of housing plots




System properties

• Input data: ESRI (shp, grid)

• Open source based (Autodesk MapGUIDE -

visualisation, GRASS open source GIS - calculations)

• Raster processing

• System flexibility of the essential importance (Data

availability, Soil evaluation practices, Local Environmental

conditions (SOM, pH), Legislation…)

Only a highly flexible system can satisfy all: • Datasets

• Algorithms (tool equations)




Desktop Tool

• When GIS not available

• MS Excel based

evaluation of soil data

• Calculation / assessment

• Tools: • Agricultural soil quality

• Environmental soil quality

• Loss of soil resources

• Soil Contamination (Play, Food,

Sport)

• Water Drainage

• Nutrient status

Urban SMS

Admin

Section




Example of the tool - ESQ

• Selected area

• Evaluation of:

• Data from database

• Inserted data

Result: index

Web – desktop tools:

equal algorithm




Acknowledgements

Borut Vrščaj, Marjan Šinkovec, Jani Bergant

City of Stuttgart, City of Vienna, Umweltbundesamt (UBA),

Vienna, Austria, City of Milan, City of Celje, District Authority

Stuttgart, University of Torino, DIVAPRA, Institute of Soil

Science and Plant Cultivation, Puławy Poland, Czech University

of Life Sciences, Prague, Soil Science and Conservation

Research Institute (VOPUP), Bratislava

CGS plus, environmental technologies

Agricultural Institute of Slovenia




Thank you for your attention

Project web page: www.urban-sms.eu

Additional info: [email protected]

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http://www.urban-sms.eu/



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