The Advanced Monitoring and Information System was developed within the framework of the European NeWater project. The functionality of the system was tailored to the requirements of the Amudarya case study in Uzbekistan. Together with local scientists, farmers, and persons working in soil salinity monitoring and water management in the Khorezm oblast, a methodology to assess the state of soil salinization of agricultural fields was developed. The data used to assess soil salinity is divided into two parts: (1) local knowledge provided by farmers, and (2) expert knowledge using scientific methods. Information about soil salinity is collected and entered into the system at the field scale. Therefore, a vector map of agricultural fields is an important prerequisite. Spatial as well as temporal data about soil salinity are stored and administered in a database. A Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is used to enter, access, and visualize the data. The objectives of the implementation of AMIS in the study area are twofold. On the one hand it provides functions to integrate local and expert knowledge in order to improve soil salinity assessment at the field scale, and on the other hand the system can be used to monitor trends of soil salinization in the long term. Please note that the current version of the soil salinity assessment approach has not yet been applied and needs to be verified on various test sites.
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