A soil sampling reference site: the challenge in defining reference material for sampling.
In the frame of the international SOILSAMP project, funded and coordinated by the Italian Environmental Protection Agency, an agricultural area was established as a reference site suitable for performing soil sampling inter-comparison exercises. The reference site was characterized for trace element content in soil, in terms of the spatial and temporal variability of their mass fraction. Considering that the behaviour of long-lived radionuclides in soil can be expected to be similar to that of some stable trace elements and that the distribution of these trace elements in soil can simulate the distribution of radionuclides, the reference site characterised in term of trace elements, can be also used to compare the soil sampling strategies developed for radionuclide investigations.
Agenzia per la Protezione dell'Ambiente e per i Servizi Tecnici (APAT), Servizio Metrologia Ambientale, Via di Castel Romano, Rome 100-00128, Italy. paolo.dezorzi@apat.it
Paolo
P
de Zorzi
Sabrina
S
Barbizzi
Maria
M
Belli
Ales
A
Fajgelj
Radojko
R
Jacimovic
Zvonka
Z
Jeran
Umberto
U
Sansone
Marcel
M
van der Perk
D003627:Data Interpretation, Statistical; D007558:Italy; D011829:Radiation Dosage; D011834:Radiation Monitoring / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards*; D012016:Reference Values; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018401:Sample Size; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012987:Soil / Q000592:standards*; D012990:Soil Pollutants, Radioactive / Q000032:analysis* / Q000592:standards*; D013048:Specimen Handling / Q000379:methods
D012987:Soil; D012990:Soil Pollutants, Radioactive