{"access":"The webtool is available from the UKCEH website under \"Web-based apps\": https://www.ceh.ac.uk/data/web-based-apps and also from UKSO under \"Apps and web resources\": https://www.ukso.org/apps-tools.html","capabilities":"Allows users to input information on their local habitat (land use/cover), soil type (from a new set of 8 aggregated classes), and climate (mean annual rainfall in mm/yr). With this information, the web tool displays probability distribution plots for up to 4 soil health indicators: soil organic matter (SOM), earthworm abundance, pH and bulk density. Users have the option to add their own measurement values in to see how they compare for their land class. A downloadable pdf self assessment sheet gives users their results for posterity, saving them from having to use the web tool too frequently.","description":"The purpose of the UKCEH Countryside Survey Soil Health Webtool is to help all landowners in Great Britain to monitor and improve the health of their soil.","fundingSources":"UK-SCAPE (work completed as part of SOC-D)","id":"23a09c11-7fb6-403f-9b98-ee2de7f4c492","infrastructureCategory":{"value":"data","description":"Environmental data and information","infrastructureClass":"Digital infrastructures","uri":"http://vocabs.ceh.ac.uk/ri/data"},"lifecycle":"Work began on the webtool in the summer of 2022 and was unveiled for the 1st time at the House of Lords Parliamentary showcase event by Bridget Emmett in November 2022. The webtool was subsequently placed on several soil data web pages including the UKSO and a press release published on Monday 5th December 2022 to coincide with World Soil Day. A paper detailing the benchmarking analysis is now published in Science of the Total Environment: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.163973 ","metadataDate":"2025-04-09T09:24:27","onlineResources":[{"url":"https://connect-apps.ceh.ac.uk/soilhealth/","function":"website","type":"OTHER"},{"url":"https://eidc.ceh.ac.uk/images/browsegraphics/countrysidesurvey.gif","name":"Countryside survey logo","function":"image","type":"OTHER"}],"owners":[{"displayName":"Chris Feeney","organisationName":"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology","organisationIdentifier":"https://ror.org/00pggkr55","role":"owner","email":"enquiries@ceh.ac.uk","address":{"city":"Bangor"},"fullName":"Chris Feeney"}],"partners":"Builds on earlier work for England in conjunction with Richard Smith of the Environment Agency (also the author of the new soil classification scheme used within) and Ellen Fay of the Sustainable Soils Alliance.","resourceIdentifiers":[{"code":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/23a09c11-7fb6-403f-9b98-ee2de7f4c492"}],"scienceArea":"Soils and Land Use","title":"UKCEH Countryside Survey Soil Health Webtool SOil funDamentals (SOD)","type":"infrastructureRecord","uniqueness":"This is the only webtool ever to be created that considers more than just agricultural and silvicultural land use; semi-natural grasslands, moorlands and wetlands (excluding deep peat >40cm) are also considered. Unlike most other apps, we also consider more than just soil organic matter/carbon, but cover pH, bulk density and earthworm abundance as well.","uri":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/23a09c11-7fb6-403f-9b98-ee2de7f4c492","users":["Land owners / managers of nearly every habitat and soil type in Great Britain (deep peat soils, urban and built-up areas, and coastal ecosystems such as saltmarshes are not included). Scientists, polciy makers and educators may also find this web tool useful for learning more about soil health and its controls."]}