SIST EN ISO 28258:2014/A1:2020

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN ISO 28258:2014/oprA1:2017
01-november-2017
Kakovost tal - Digitalna izmenjava podatkov o tleh - Dopolnilo A1 (ISO
28258:2013/DAmd 1:2017)
Soil quality - Digital exchange of soil-related data - Amendment 1 (ISO
28258:2013/DAmd 1:2017)
Bodenbeschaffenheit - Digitaler Austausch bodenbezogener Daten - Änderung 1 (ISO
28258:2013/DAmd 1:2017)
Qualité du sol - Échange numérique de données relatives au sol - Amendement 1 (ISO
28258:2013/DAmd 1:2017)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN ISO 28258:2013/prA1
ICS:
13.080.01 Kakovost tal in pedologija na Soil quality and pedology in
splošno general
35.240.70 Uporabniške rešitve IT v IT applications in science
znanosti
SIST EN ISO 28258:2014/oprA1:2017 en,fr,de
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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DRAFT AMENDMENT
ISO 28258:2013/DAM 1
ISO/TC 190/SC 1 Secretariat: AFNOR
Voting begins on: Voting terminates on:
2017-09-28 2017-12-21
Soil quality — Digital exchange of soil-related data
AMENDMENT 1
Qualité du sol — Échange numérique de données relatives au sol
AMENDEMENT 1
ICS: 13.080.01
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Foreword
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Soil quality — Digital exchange of soil-related data
AMENDMENT
1
Figure 1
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Figure 1 — Common data exchanges in soil quality

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Soil quality — Digital exchange of soil-related data
1, second paragraph

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Figure 1 (Meta-)Data about the quality of soil information can be included according to ISO 19157:2013
Geographic Information – Data Quality.
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2,
Add the reference to ISO 19157:2013 in the normative references.
ISO 19157:2013, Geographic information — Data Quality
3.1,
Add the following note at the end of the subclause:
Note 2 to entry: ISO 19156 uses the term specimen for what is called a sample in soil science.
3.20,
Replace the term “profil information” by “soil profil information” in the Note 1, i.e replace the Note 1
with the following :

Note 1 to entry: All types of plots only provide locality, but not soil information itself. For example, a borehole
is the location where you gather the information to abstract a soil profile information from.
Figure 1 — Common data exchanges in soil quality

3.33,
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excavation prepared to carry out soil profile descriptions, sampling, and/or field tests
4.1, first paragraph
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following:
This International Standard is specifically made for the exchange of soil-related data. It does not
deal with the nevertheless very common use and exchange data from other disciplines, like
geotechnics, geo-information, or groundwater investigation and management.
4.1, fourth paragraph
Replace the term “soil quality data” by “soil-related data” in the text, i.e replace the text with the
following:
If soil-related data defined according to this International Standard are combined with other kinds
of data, the soil-related part shall be performed, using the XML namespace “ISO 28258”.
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4.1, last paragraph but one
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“soil-related information” in the text, i.e replace the text with the following:
Clause 5 provides the information model for the exchange of soil-related data used in this
International Standard. All soil-related information shall (eventually) refer to a specific place
(point, location, mapping unit) in or under the surface of the earth. For all geographical
information, the ISO 19100 family of International Standards is used.
All analytical results shall refer to an appropriate standard, if available.
4.2,
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This International Standard requires that the exchange of soil-related data uses an information
model based on ISO 19156. The general model of ISO 19156 is adapted to soil data; maintaining
flexibility as regards the attribute parameters.
Figure 2
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Figure 2 — Inner structure of soil information and its setting within other standards
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4.1, last paragraph but one 5.2.1,
Replace the term “soil quality data” by “soil-related data” and the term “soil quality information” by Replace the term “SF_Process” by “OM_Process” and the term “Profile” by “SoilProfile” in the bullet
“soil-related information” in the text, i.e replace the text with the following: point d), e), and f), i.e replace the bullet points with the following:
Clause 5 provides the information model for the exchange of soil-related data used in this d) The OM_Process is restricted to PreparationProcess.
International Standard. All soil-related information shall (eventually) refer to a specific place
e) FeatureType of Observation:featureOfInterest is restricted to Site, Plot, SoilProfile,
(point, location, mapping unit) in or under the surface of the earth. For all geographical
ProfileElement, and SoilSpecimen including all their subclasses. It means that only properties of
information, the ISO 19100 family of International Standards is used.
these feature types may be observed.
All analytical results shall refer to an appropriate standard, if available.
f) FeatureType of SF_SamplingFeature: sampledFeature is restricted to Site, Plot, SoilProfile, and
ProfileElement including all their subtypes.
4.2,
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Table 1,
Replace the first paragraph with the following: Replace the term “Profile” by “SoilProfile”.
This International Standard requires that the exchange of soil-related data uses an information
5.2.3, last paragraph
model based on ISO 19156. The general model of ISO 19156 is adapted to soil data; maintaining
flexibility as regards the attribute parameters.
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An observation may be done only on observable properties of any feature of interest; however,
Figure 2
features of interest are restricted to Site, Plot, SoilProfile, ProfileElement (i. e. Layer and Horizon),
and SoilSpecimen, including all their subtypes. General observable properties introduced by this
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model are listed in Table 2. Additional observable properties may be introduced by a data provider.

Any other properties introduced by this model except for those listed in Table 2 are considered to
be exact.
Table 2,
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Figure 3
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Figure 2 — Inner structure of soil information and its setting within other standards
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Figure 3 — General SoilQuality packages
Figure 4
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Figure 3 — General SoilQuality packages
Figure 4
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Figure 4 — Overview of sub-models (see Figures 5 to 10 for details)
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Figure 5
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Figure 5 — Details — Project
Figure 6
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Figure 6 — Details — Spatial relation
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Figure 5 6.5,
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NOTE The attribute extent of the feature SoilMap describes the spatial (geographic) extent of the complete
soil map. ISO 19107 refers to this as envelope.
Table 5,
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SoilMappingUnit geometry attribute GM_Object 0.*
Figure 7
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Figure 5 — Details — Project
Figure 6

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Figure 7 — Details — Soil mapping
Figure 8
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Figure 6 — Details — Spatial relation
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Figure 8— Details — Soil observation
Figure 9
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Figure 9 — Details — Sample

6.8,
Figure 8— Details — Soil observation
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description”
Figure 9
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The submodel soil profile description contains and relates the typical soil scientific concepts of soil
profile, layer and soil horizon. The soil profile is an abstract, ordered set of soil horizons and/or
layers. Horizons develop in layers which in turn have been developed through geogenesis or
anthropogenic action. Furthermore, layers can be used to describe common characteristics of a set
of adjoining horizons. Horizons may be associated with the layer in which they have been
developed through pedogenesis. Because layers and horizons share the same basic properties (i.e.
both have upper and lower depth information and have a position in the order within the soil
profile), both are subclasses of the feature type ProfileElement. See Table 8.
Table 8,
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Figure 10,
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Figure 10 — Details — Soil profile
8,
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Annex A,
In the column “Feature type”:
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Figure 10, Replace “Soilobservation” by “SoilObservation”
Replace Figure 10 with the following figure: Replace “Profile” by “SoilProfile”
Replace “Profileelement” by “ProfileElement”
Annex C, fourth paragraph
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This International Standard expects that every data provider or anyone who needs an exchange
format for soil-related data extends SoilML classes with properties which are suitable for his or her
data model, or simply fill the attributes for which (s)he has data. This extension of the SoilML UML
model shall also appear in the XSD. Therefore, the data provider (or the one who defines the
exchange format) has to create two different kinds of files:
C.1.2, list with bullet points:
Replace “Profile” by “SoilProfile”
C.2, last example,
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EXAMPLE 2: See the xlink:href = ”#plot1” listing that enables linking the plot1 from the
project1.
C.3.2, last but second paragraph
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Both ways of expression incorporate definition of units of measure, i.e. the uom concept similarly to
other International Standards (e.g. ISO 19115 and ISO 19139). In other words, each depth element
presented above contains the mandatory uom attribute.
EXAMPLE Minimum depth 23.7 cm and maximum depth 56.2 cm would be encoded in the following way:
56.2
23.7
C.5.2.1, in the second half of the clause a)

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Figure 10 — Details — Soil profile
a) Property SoilObservation.featureOfInterest is restricted to Site, Plot, SoilProfile,
ProfileElement, and SoilSpecimen including all their subtypes.
8,
C.5.2.1, sentence before EXAMPLE
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Annex A,
In the column “Feature type”:
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However, the set of observable properties can and should be extended with provider-specific
properties related to Site, Plot, SoilProfile, ProfileElement and/or SoilSpecimen, including their
subtypes.
C.5.2.1, sentence after EXAMPLE
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Observed property can be a simple attribute as well as an association role, so it is possible to
observe Plot.elevation as well as Plot.profile. Observation of a Plot.profile can be considered as
related not only to SoilProfile itself, but also to its property values (elements, meaning Layers and
Horizons, their order, depths, etc.).
Table C.3,
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C.5.3.2, last sentence before EXAMPLE 3
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This mechanism leads to duplications in the case of non-object types (e.g. xsd:integer,
gml:MeasureType, xsd:boolean, xsd:string, sq:Depth, sq:Colour), i.e. when the value is encoded as a
result of SoilObservation an d also in the observed object itself. In the case of object types (e.g.
sq:SoilProfile, sq:ProfileElement), the duplicity should be avoided using the by-reference mode.
C.6,
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  xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema”
  xmlns:gml=”http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2”
  xmlns:sq=”http://www.iso28258.org”
  xmlns:om=”http://www.opengis.net/om/2.0”
  xmlns:sam=”http://www.opengis.net/sampling/2.0”
  xmlns:sams=”http://www.opengis.net/samplingSpatial/2.0”
  xmlns:spec=”http://www.opengis.net/samplingSpecimen/2.0”
  elementFormDefault=”qualified”
  targetNamespace=”http://www.iso28258.org”
  version=”0.1”>
  schemaLocation=”http://schemas.opengis.net/gml/3.2.1/gml.xsd”/>
  schemaLocation=”http://schemas.opengis.net/om/2.0/observation.xsd”/>
  schemaLocation=”http://schemas.opengis.net/sampling/2.0/samplingFeature.x
sd”/>
  schemaLocation=”http://schemas.opengis.net/samplingSpatial/2.0/spatialSam
plingFeature.xsd”/>
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  However, the set of observable properties can and should be extended with provider-specific
schemaLocation=”http://schemas.opengis.net/samplingSpecimen/2.0/specimen.
properties related to Site, Plot, SoilProfile, ProfileElement and/or SoilSpecimen, including their
xsd”/>
subtypes.

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substitutionGroup=”gml:AbstractFeature”>
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   PreparationProcess
Observed property can be a simple attribute as well as an association role, so it is possible to

observe Plot.elevation as well as Plot.profile. Observation of a Plot.profile can be considered as
related not only to SoilProfile itself, but also to its property values (elements, meaning Layers and
Preparation process is a subtype of OM_Process (also known as
Horizons, their order, depths, etc.).
SF_Process). It is a process used to prepare the specimen. It has one
subtype TransportAndStorage.

Table C.3,
  
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C.5.3.2, last sentence before EXAMPLE 3
   
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This mechanism leads to duplications in the case of non-object types (e.g. xsd:integer,
    
gml:MeasureType, xsd:boolean, xsd:string, sq:Depth, sq:Colour), i.e. when the value is encoded as a
   
result of SoilObservation an d also in the observed object itself. In the case of object types (e.g.
  
sq:SoilProfile, sq:ProfileElement), the duplicity should be avoided using the by-reference mode.
 
 
  
C.6,
   
  
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    xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema”
substitutionGroup=”gml:AbstractFeature”>
  xmlns:gml=”http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2”
  
  xmlns:sq=”http://www.iso28258.org”
   project
  xmlns:om=”http://www.opengis.net/om/2.0”
The project holds the background information for soil studies. A project
  xmlns:sam=”http://www.opengis.net/sampling/2.0”
does not describe the soil as such. It is of importance to exchange
  xmlns:sams=”http://www.opengis.net/samplingSpatial/2.0”
project data along with other soil quality data in order to know the aim
  xmlns:spec=”http://www.opengis.net/samplingSpecimen/2.0”
and circumstances of data collection. The project provides the context of
  elementFormDefault=”qualified”
the data collection as a prerequisite for the proper use or reuse of
  targetNamespace=”http://www.iso28258.org”
these data.
  version=”0.1”>
The project information also may be the starting point to retrieve
  further information that cannot be exchanged using soil quality. For
schemaLocation=”http://schemas.opengis.net/gml/3.2.1/gml.xsd”/>
example, the name of an author or the project number may be the key for
  finding a report or decision document.
schemaLocation=”http://schemas.opengis.net/om/2.0/observation.xsd”/>
  
   
schemaLocation=”http://schemas.opengis.net/sampling/2.0/samplingFeature.x
 
sd”/>
  
     
schemaLocation=”http://schemas.opengis.net/samplingSpatial/2.0/spatialSam
    
plingFeature.xsd”/>
     
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      minOccurs=”0” maxOccurs=”unbounded”>
      
       
         xmlns=”http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2”>sq:concernedProject tyName>
       
      
     
      minOccurs=”0” maxOccurs=”unbounded”/>
      type=”sq:ProjectContextPropertyType” minOccurs=”0”
maxOccurs=”unbounded”/>
      type=”sq:AnalysisRequestPropertyType” minOccurs=”0”
maxOccurs=”unbounded”/>
    
   
  
 
 
  
   
  
  
  
 
 
  
   
  
 
 
 
  
   
   
    
     
      sq:Project
     
    
   
  
 
  substitutionGroup=”gml:AbstractObject”>
  
   
Depth is a datatype which can both simple depth (e.g. 60cm) or depth
extent (e.g. 60-70cm).
Depth is implemented as a choice of GML Quantity or GML
QuantityExtent.
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minOccurs=”0” maxOccurs=”unbounded”>
        
        
        
xmlns=”http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2”>sq:concernedProject   
tyName>   
          
          
          
     
minOccurs=”0” maxOccurs=”unbounded”/>       
     
type=”sq:ProjectContextPropertyType” minOccurs=”0”     
maxOccurs=”unbounded”/>
    
     
type=”sq:AnalysisRequestPropertyType” minOccurs=”0”
  
maxOccurs=”unbounded”/> 
     
     
     
   
 
 
        substitutionGroup=”spec:SF_Specimen”>
    
      soil specimen
  

 
 
Soil specimen is a subtype of SF_Specimen. Soil specimen may be taken in
   the Site, Plot, SoilProfile, or ProfileElement including their
   
subtypes.
  

 
   
  
   
     
   
   
        
                 sq:Project type=”sq:DepthPropertyType”/>
         
       
     
   
 
 
  ...