A recent assessment states that 60–70% of soils in Europe are considered degraded. Protecting such valuable resource require knowledge on soil status through monitoring systems. In Europe, different types of monitoring networks currently exist in parallel. Many EU Member states (MS) developed their own national soil information monitoring system (N-SIMS), some being in place for decades. In parallel in 2009, the European Commission extended the periodic Land Use/Land Cover Area Frame Survey (LUCAS) led by EUROSTAT to sample and analyse the main properties of topsoil in EU in order to develop a homogeneous dataset for EU.

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比较 LUCAS 土壤和国家系统：迈向统一的欧洲土壤监测网络


最近的一项评估表明，欧洲 60-70% 的土壤被认为已经退化。保护如此宝贵的资源需要通过监控系统了解土壤状况。在欧洲，目前并行存在不同类型的监控网络。许多欧盟成员国 （MS） 开发了自己的国家土壤信息监测系统 （N-SIMS），其中一些已经使用了几十年。与此同时，在 2009 年，欧盟委员会扩展了由 EUROSTAT 领导的定期土地利用/土地覆盖面积框架调查 （LUCAS），以对欧盟表层土壤的主要特性进行采样和分析，以便为欧盟开发一个同质数据集。