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Sino-EU Soil Observatory for intelligent Land Use Management
Acronym
SIEUSOIL
Code
41Z01219
Duration
01 June 2019 → 30 November 2022
Funding
European funding: framework programme
Research disciplines
  • Agricultural and food sciences
    • Agricultural land management and planning
Keywords
soil
Other information
 
Project description

SIEUSOIL will design, implement and test a shared China-EU Web Observatory platform that will provide Open Linked Data to monitor status and threats of soil and assist in decision making for sustainable support of agroecosystem functions, in view of the projected climate change. The Observatory platform will through customizable modules support the wise management of soil at field level and will provide showcase of good practices on soil management both for EU and China. The final target will be to support sustainable management of soil, increase land productivity sustainably, reduce crop yield variability across time and space, and support the policy formulation process. Innovative practices and tools will be tested in SIEUSOIL and their impact will be assessed for improved soil fertility and land suitability.

 
Role of Ghent University
UGENT will implement different proximal soil sensing techniques to measure key soil properties and contaminants. The UGENT team will lead the work on variable rate fertilization and tillage. The project will allow the team to demonstrate the in house produced international patented on-line soil sensor platform to measure key soil properties at different European countries. The project will allow also widening the PA capability of UGENT (e.g., the Precision SCoRing group) in general by allowing for broader results (at both Europe and China) on variable rate applications to be obtained and be accumulated with those being achieved under the 3.5 M EUR worth national project to create a PA centre in Flanders.