Soil-Geographic Database of Russia: Database Management System Soil-DB

摘要

The aim of development of the Soil Geographic Database (SGDB) of Russia is the provision of a scientific basis for the state strategy of sustainable rational land use, monitoring of soil cover, and soil conservation. The main blocks of the Soil Geographic Database are the Geographic Database and the Specialized Attributive Database. Relational Database Management System is used for data storage and processing. The Geographic Information Soil Database forms the cartographic basis of the State Soil-Geographic Database of Russia. The soil profile (attributive) database of Russia is based on the concept of representative soil profiles. The representative profiles should have an exact geographical location and be provided with a morphological descriptionand a complete set of analytical data. A series of the profiles typical of a given soil type can be used for calculating averaged characteristics for this soil type. For filling the profile attributive database, a special software-Soil-DB (version 1)-was developed. This program allows a provider of information to login to the site, to create and fill the soil description card, and to send it through Internet to the central server of the System.