GEMAS European Geochemical Data
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ESRI REST
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WMS
available as WMS
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| Theme | Science |
|---|---|
| Date released | 2014-04-10 |
| Date updated | 2021-10-25 |
| Dataset conforms to these standards | The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment. |
| Rights notes | ['Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)', 'Data that is produced directly by the Geological Survey Ireland (GSI) is free for use under the conditions of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.\n\nhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/\n\nhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode\n\nUnder the CC-BY Licence, users must acknowledge the source of the Information in their product or application.\n\nPlease use this specific attribution statement: "Contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence".\n\nIn cases where it is not practical to use the statement users may include a URI or hyperlink to a resource that contains the required attribution statement.', 'license'] |
| Update frequency | Other |
| Language | English |
| Landing page | https://secure.dccae.gov.ie/arcgis/services/GEMAS/MasterTestFull/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS |
| Geographic coverage in GeoJSON format | {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[-10.47472, 51.44555],[-10.47472, 55.37999], [-6.01306, 55.37999], [-6.01306, 51.44555], [-10.47472, 51.44555]]]} |
| Spatial Reference Systems (SRS) | WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) |
| Vertical Extent | {"verticalDomainName": "sea level", "minVerticalExtent": "0", "maxVerticalExtent": "1041"} |
| Provenance information | •Application of the data: The GEMAS project started in 2008 and delivered a book publication on results in December 2013. The dataset is freely available to the general public. As key results, it was observed: - Large differences in the concentration of chemical elements between the soil of northern and southern Europe: in the northern Europe the concentrations for many elements were 2/3 times lower than in the southern Europe soil; - Element distributions depend on geology and climate, and anthropogenic impact is hardly detectable at the European scale; - Risk assessment for metals like Cu have shown that few samples have such high concentrations that they pose a toxic risk for soil organisms; - Several important trace elements show low levels over sizeable tracts of land in Europe, that trace element deficiency is clearly of concern. Results from the GEMAS project offer a variety of applications. One of them is the establishment of a ’soil sample archive’ recording the status of European agricultural and grazing land soil in the year 2008. GEMAS data define the geochemical baseline for risk evaluation related to exposure of chemicals in agricultural soil and grazing land soil, as required by REACH regulation. •Sources of Information: GEMAS project, involving 33 European countries, is a cooperation project between EuroGeoSurveys through its Geochemical Expert Group, and Eurometaux, the European Association of Metals. http://gemas.geolba.ac.at/ In 2016 the Geological Survey of Ireland as a European partner contributes to GEMAS and EGDI (European Geological Data Infrastructure) with providing GIS spatial data classification and publication of WMS geochemical web mapping services to support European data interoperability of EGDI web portal. The GIS GEMAS sample classification were constructed in ArcGIS 10.1 and the original GEMAS dataset is available as ESRI shapefile format. |
| Period of time covered (begin) | 2009-01-12 |
| Period of time covered (end) | 2011-01-17 |
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