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LMO Description
Organisation Vyskumny ustav podoznalectva a ochrany pody
Details
Level of authority National
Slovakia
Formal Mandate Formal mandate of SSCRI is:
- Complex soil research, evaluation of soil properties, laboratory analyses
- Production and innovation of Slovakian soil information, soil monitoring: Partial soil monitoring centre
- Improvement and development of theoretical soil knowledge, knowledge concerning soil functions especially productivity potential and ecological soil functions
- Improvement and development of evaluation of soil productivity index, specification of soil productivity functions on maps for decision makers,
- Creation of models of sustainable soil use
- Improvement and development of geographical soil information system
- Assessment of soil system concerning nutrients application,
Education of young experts
- Standards development in area of soil science
- Taking the initiative in legislative adjusting and adaptation
- Expert informative centre for soil protection and exploitation
- Expertise in soil protection and exploitation
- Soil map archive
- International and national project activities, LPIS, LUCAS
- Hydropedology, monitoring of water quality in agricultural land.
Main Activities SSCRI (Výskumný ústav pôdoznalectva a ochrany pôdy) operates in many areas of agricultural and environmental problems. For the need of scientific, decision-making, projection and planning sphere on a national level, SSCRI provides Register of Slovak Soils (LPIS), comprehensive Soil Information System, Soil Conservation Service, internationally accredited laboratories, archive of soil maps and national archive of soil samples. Also SSCRI is a centre for Remote Sensing of Soil and Land in agriculture. Furthermore we serve as national centre for soil information system on agricultural land, administrator for several national soil databases and provider of thematic soil information in the sphere of agriculture and environment protection (protected soil areas, soil portal, soil monitoring).
LMO URL http://www.vupop.sk/ 
Comments
LMO CONTACT INFORMATION
Contact Person Pavol Bielek
Organisation SSCRI
Function director
Address Gagarinova 10, 827 13 Bratislava
Country SLOVAKIA 
Tel 00421/2/43420866
Fax 00421/2/43295487 
PROPOSED ROLE IN INSPIRE DEVELOPMENT
Which role(s) do you foresee for the LMO in INSPIRE development
  1. allocate experts to Drafting Teams
  2. participate in the review process
  3. be kept informed
Area of work/experience
Geographic Domain: National
Description of geographic extent: Slovakia
Societal Sector research, decission support
Specific Expertise
Metadata
Data Specifications
Monitoring and Reporting
INSPIRE Data Themes
Theme UserProducerCoordinator
Coordinate reference systems    
Geographical grid systems    
Geographical names    
Administrative units    
Cadastral parcels    
Hydrography    
Protected sites    
Elevation    
Land cover  
Orthoimagery    
Geology    
Statistical units    
Soil
Land use  
Environmental monitoring Facilities  
Agricultural and aquaculture facilities    
Area management/restriction/regulation zones & reporting units    
Natural risk zones    
Atmospheric conditions    
Meteorological geographical features    
Habitats and biotopes    
Previous Experience relevant for INSPIRE development We have experperts in ESBN INSPIRE working group and GS Soil eContentplus project.
Primary Business Surveying and mapping, remote sensing, agricultural and environmental decission support 
Environmental application domains Soil monitoring, agricultural land cover monitoring, partial monitoring of groundwater for threat to soil salinity evaluation, climate change as threath to soil  

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