Project
Artificial Intelligence to support European soil health monitoring
AI4SoilHealth - an open access European-wide digital infrastructure for monitoring and forecasting soil health indicators
Healthy soils enable a healthy life. They secure our food supply, filter drinking water, serve as habitats for countless organisms, and act as reservoirs for rainfall and atmospheric carbon.
Background and Objective
But how healthy are our soils, and how is soil health evolving in Europe?
Approach
We aim to explore this question within the European collaborative project 'AI4SoilHealth'. Our goal is to create a user-friendly digital platform that will be openly accessible to everyone. This platform will combine artificial intelligence (AI) and a vast repository of environmental training data to describe soil health across Europe spatially-explicit.
The Thünen-Institute is actively contributing to the development of novel spatio-temporal maps for illustrating trends of soil health in Europe. Additionally, we are working on long-term forecasts for future soil organic carbon stocks in the era of climate change.
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Involved Thünen-Partners
Involved external Thünen-Partners
- Aarhus University
(Aarhus, Tjele, Dänemark) - Natural Resources Institute Finland (LUKE)
(Helsinki, Mikkeli, Jokioinen, Vanda, Finnland) - University of Aberdeen
(Aberdeen, Großbritannien (inkl. Nordirland)) - Max - Planck - Institut für Biogeochemie
(Jena, Deutschland) - International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA)
(Laxenburg, Österreich) - Technische Universität Hamburg (TUHH)
(Hamburg, Deutschland) - Sorbonne Université
(Paris, Frankreich) - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / ARISTOTELIO PANEPISTIMIO THESSALONIKIS
( Thessaloniki, Griechenland) - Soil Association
(Bristol, Großbritannien (inkl. Nordirland)) - (The) Centre for Agricultural Reseach (ATK), Hungarian Academy of Sciences
(Martonvasar, Ungarn) - University of Basel
(Basel, Schweiz) - University of Zagreb
(Zagreb, Kroatien) - ETH Zurich
(Zürich, Schweiz) - Bern University of Applied Sciences (BFH)
(Bern, Schweiz) - Roma Tre University
(Rom, Italien) - RegenEarth BV
(., Italien) - Stockholm University
(Stockholm, Schweden) - NEIKER - Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development
(Arcaute, Spanien) - Digit Soil
(Schlieren, Schweiz) - Planet Labs
(Berlin, Deutschland) - MultiOne
(Vicenza, Italien) - OpenGeoHub Foundation
(Wageningen, Niederlande) - ISINNOVA
(Rom, Italien) - Aalborg University (AAU) - Department of the Built Environment, Soil Technology Research Group
(Aalborg, Dänemark)
Funding Body
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European Union (EU)
(international, öffentlich)
Duration
1.2023 - 12.2026
More Information
Project funding number: 101086179
Funding program: EU - Horizon Europe
Project status:
ongoing