UC5/US1 Find and access soil data on forest soils

[pvgenuchten]

As a builder of an app for Forest Practitioners,

I want to find the best soil data available (and reusable with a at most a CC-by license (not NC or SA)) in the area of interest

So our envisioned Decision Support System (DSS) providing a list of forest transformation scenarios for a Stand, uses the best soil data available

Background

The Decision Support System is a software application that provides a list of forest transformation scenarios by automatically retrieving and processing input data (climate, soil, tree species and vitality) from a distributed data infrastructure/repository based on user input (Stand). The DSS itself will not currently present any soil-related information to the user. However, the soil data is used to carry out simulations. Stands are expected to be plots of land, typically in the 1-10ha range, where the current forest management parameters are homogeneous. The Stand data contain geometry, tree species, tree age classes, tree count, tree height, timber volume. This will be given by the user as well as retrieved from other sources of the forestry data space.

Relevant data

• Datasets on Soil type (texture)
• Datasets on Soil thickness (excl. coarse skeleton)
• Datasets on Indicator of nutrient availability
• Datasets on Plant-available nitrogen in kg/ha*yr
• SoilWise to return optimal datasets for requested parameters to the DSS in a compatible data format along with a timestamp

Acceptance criteria

• [ ] The research required to find optimal data, or if missing a zero conclusion should be 25% more efficient

[pvgenuchten]

story will be merged to #14 @2