Management Support System for Biebrza National Park

:: GIS & database ::

"Soil" Database

Contents of the database

Soil database collects mainly data from the area of BNP. In particular, it is the following information related to soil survey:

• XY coordinates of the examined point,
• vegetation cover,
• ordinates of the water level,
• soil strata description,
• soil type,
• physical and chemical properties of soil.

Occurrence and format of spatial information in the database

Spatial information is presented in form of numbers describing geographical coordinates of the examined points.

Number of objects and size of database file

Soil database collects information from 1125 soil pits. Each soil pit has a general and strata description. It is also possible to take samples for physical and chemical analyses at a specified depth. The size of database file is 1.6 MB.