ICPA - Soil/Land/Environment Data Computing

Research Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry

ICPA Bucharest

ACTIVITIES

Soil/Land/Environment Data Computing;

Agricultural/Environment Information Services

Databases on natural soil/land resources and environment (design, implementation and operating):

Soil profiles (general, morphological, and analytical - physical and chemical - data, including on groundwater),

Land units (1:10,000, 1:50,000, 1:1,000,000; soil, relief, hydrology, climate;

land suitability for 24 crops and land uses, rainfed and irrigated, etc.),

Nation-wide monitoring of the quality of the soils (soil profiles, 16x16 km grid),

Yearly monitoring of the main quality parameters of the soils (district/nation-wide level),

Pedo-geochemical parameters,

Environment standards;

Geographical information systems for national soil/land resources and environment; Spatial data processing, including remote sensing data;

Application and development of simulation models (soil processes, crop growth, mass and energy transfer in agricultural system, etc.);

Application and development of digital terrain models integrated with simulation models;

Expert systems and decision support systems for sustainable land evaluation/management (land use planning, technological recommendations, land sensitivity to water stresses, etc.);

Computerized systems for evaluation of soil physical properties and soil requirements for tillage systems;

Computerized systems for diagnosis of nutrient-caused disorders in plants and recommendations for their recovery;

Computerized systems to characterize the soil agrochemical evolution under the influence of different fertilization and crop management practices;

Agricultural documentary/information databases; Providing agricultural/environment information services; ICPA Computing Centre is acting as the Romanian AGRIS/CARIS Centre in the FAO's AGRIS/CARIS network;

Development of other data processing applications on soil/land resources and environment.

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