Workshop on the Development of a Scottish Soils Knowledge and Information Base (SSKIB)

22 September, Aberdeen

Workshop Overview

Since the end of the systematic survey of Scottish soils in 1988, the existing soil spatial and point data have been used in a number of projects and interpreted in a variety of different ways to provide more easily understood soils information for users in the academic world, government agencies and NGOs. Although some attempt has been made to co-ordinate this effort, no single, coherent attribute dataset exists.

A recently commissioned project aims to rationalise the existing derived soil data and to utilise existing soil knowledge to develop an integrated attribute database of soil information with a common base at the chosen spatial scale of 1:250 000.

A workshop was held with a range of end-users within the Scottish Executive and agencies in order to establish the types of soil data that will be required by them in order to deliver their statutory and corporate objectives.

Workshop Report

A summary report is available.

Contact:

For enquiries contact:
Allan Lilly
Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Craigiebuckler, Aberdeen, AB15 8QH, UK
Tel: +44 (0) 1224 395000
Fax: +44 (0) 1224 311556
http://www.macaulay.ac.uk/