Form 5a - ICP Forests

Part IIIa
4.5 Sampling and Analysis of Soil
During the FutMon project we will rely on the BioSoil definitions and
recommendations. Concerning the data submission the forms below will be used for data
on plots which were not already submitted to the BioSoil data base.
Some amendments to BioSoil were made already and highlighted by blue bold font.
4.5.1 XX2009.PLS
Contents of reduced plot file
Each data file has to start with a comment line. This line starts with an exclamation
mark:
!Sequence, country, plot, date, latitude, longitude, altitude, water, humus,
other_observations
Column Description Format Ref_Tab Item #
l – 4 Sequence number of plots (1 to 9999) I 4
6 – 7 Country Code I 2 X (1)
9 – 12 Plot number (max. 9999) I 4 (2)
14 – 19 Date of sampling in DDMMYY (e.g.
220690)
Date (3)
21 – 27 Latitude in +DDMMSS (e.g. + 505852) C 7 (4)
29 – 35 Longitude in (+ or -) DDMMSS (e.g. +
035531)
C 7 (4)
37 – 38 Altitude (in 50 meter classes from 1 to 51) I 2 X (7)
40 – 66 Soil unit C 27 X
68 – 71 Parent material code I 4 X
73 Water availability
(insufficient = 1, sufficient = 2, excessive = 3)
I 1 X (5)
75 Humus type ( Mull = 1, Moder = 2, etc.) I 1 X (6)
77 – 78 ID of soil profile used for the pedological
characterisation (e.g. P04)
81 – 120 Other observations C 40 (84)
I 2
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