ICPA - Inventorying & Monitoring the Natural Resources

Research Institute for Soil Science and Agrochemistry

ICPA Bucharest

ACTIVITIES

in

Inventorying and Monitoring

the Natural Resources and Environment

Inventories of soil profiles: general, morphological, and analytical (physical and chemical) data, including groundwater;

Nation-wide base soil maps (1:10,000; 1:50,000; 1:200,000; 1:500,000 and 1:1,000,000);

Nation-wide land evaluation maps (1:10,000; 1:50,000 and other scales) and related attribute data;

Thematic soil maps (soil erosion, waterlogging, salinity & sodicity, pollution and land capability) at different scales;

Nation-wide Monitoring of the Quality of the Soils

(European soil profiles network on 16x16 km grid);

Yearly monitoring of the main quality parameters of the soils (district/country level);

Natural resources monitoring and auditing systems;

Pedo-geochemical characteristics of different land areas;

Nation-wide map of microzones;

Nation-wide map of ecoregions (ecosystems);

Soil and plant analyses;

Others.

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