Inspire Download Service: Soil/Characteristics of water binding Brandenburg (WFS-SO-BOBINDUNG)

The interoperable INSPIRE download service (WFS) Soil provides an overview of the characteristics of water retention (water content in field capacity, usable field capacity, usable field capacity in the effective root space) in the state of Brandenburg. The map is based on the legend units of the soil overview map (BÜK300) with corresponding assignment of parametrised surface soil shapes determined by terrain and laboratory tests. In the case of insufficient data, because of the better consistency of the derived values with measured data from the characteristics tables of the soil animal carting instructions, 3 rd edition, Hannover 1982 (AG Soil Science) for water binding, tab 43 was used using the link rule 1.11 (method documentation Soil Science, Hennings et al 2000). According to the INSPIRE data specification Soil (D2.8.III.3_v3.0), the contents of the card are INSPIRE-compliant. The WFS includes the following feature types: — Monitoring process with information on the organisation involved in the process (LBGR), — derived soil object with information on the observation of the soil property to describe the derived soil object (soilDerivedObjectObservation), —Observation of a soil property indicating the character of the soil-derived object, the observed property, the soil-derived observation of soil-related properties, the result of observations of the derived soil object, — Soil bodies, demarcated and with respect to certain soil characteristics and/or spatial patterns of homogeneous part of the floor ceiling; and — Soil layer with information on the assignment of the layer to a term corresponding to its nature, to the derived profile, which serves as the reference profile for a particular type of soil in a given geographical area, the upper and lower depth of the profile element, measured from the surface (0 cm) of a soil profile (in cm). — The compliant INSPIRE download service (WFS) Soil provides an overview of the parameters of water retention (water content at field capacity, available field capacity, available field capacity in the effective root zone) in the federal state of Brandenburg. The map is based on the legend units of the soil map (BÜK300) with corresponding assignment of parameterised soil forms, which were determined by field and laboratory investigations. In the case of inadequate data bases, the data were obtained using the values from the tables of the Bodenkundliche Kartier Anleitung, 3 rd edition, Hanover 1982 (AG Bodenkunde) for water retention, Tab. 43 using method 1.11 (method documentation Bodenkunde, Hennings et al 2000). The content of the soil map is compliant to the INSPIRE data specification for the annex theme Soil (D2.8.III.3_v3.0). The WFS includes the following feature types: —Observation process with information about the organisation involved in the process (LBGR), Soil derived object with information on the observation of the soil property for characterising the soil derived object(soilDerivedObservation), Observations of a soil derived object with information about the character of the soil derived object, the observed property, the soil derived observation of soil related properties, the result of the observations of the soil derived object, Soil body, part of the soil cover that is delineated and that is homogeneous with regard to certain soil properties and/or spatial patterns, and Soil layer with information about the assignation of the layer according to the concept that fits its kind, to the derived soil profile, which serves as a reference profile for a particular type of soil in a specific geographical area, including the upper and lower depth of the profile element from the surface (0 cm) of a soil profile (in cm).