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Datasets
The European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC) contains currently many soil data and information; most of the offered data are at European scale, while, when possible, links to national or global datasets are provided.
Datasets are organized in some broad categories.
- A first category contains the European Soil Database (ESDB), datasets that have been derived with the help of the ESDB and general European datasets that contain soil properties.
- A second category offers data that are related to soil threats (erosion, soil organic carbon, landslides, compaction, salinization, soil biodiversity, contaminated sites, soil sealing, etc.)
- A third category offers data related to soil functions
- A fourth category offers soil point data (LUCAS, SPADE, etc)
- A fifth category contains data that stem from projects.
Some datasets can be freely downloaded; others will be made accessible after prior registration, through a fill-in form, indicated by the button.
On top of the list below, there is also a handy one-page overview of all datasaets publicly available in ESDAC: the name (and link) for the dataset and a short abstract.
More information about some of the datasets in the European Soil Data Centre can be found in the following publications:
- Panagos, P., Van Liedekerke, M., Borrelli, P., Köninger, J., Ballabio, C., Orgiazzi, A., Lugato, E., Liakos, L., Hervas, J., Jones, A. Montanarella, L. 2022. European Soil Data Centre 2.0: Soil data and knowledge in support of the EU policies. European Journal of Soil Science, 73(6), e13315. DOI: 10.1111/ejss.13315
- Panagos P., Van Liedekerke M., Jones A., Montanarella L. European Soil Data Centre: Response to European policy support and public data requirements. (2012) Land Use Policy, 29 (2), pp. 329-338, doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2011.07.003
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Title: Global rainfall erosivity projections for 2050 and 2070 | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion, Global Soil Erosion – Future projections Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2022 |
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Title: LUCAS 2018 TOPSOIL data | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content, Soil Nutrients, Soil pH, Soil Sampling Project/s: LUCAS Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2022 Publisher: European Commission Keywords: LUCAS | LUCAS SOIL | clay | silt | sand | coarse fragments | pH | OC | SOC | Organic Carbon Content | carbonates | CaCO3 | nitrogen | phosphorous | potassium | N | P | K | EC | Electrical conductivity | Oxalate extractable Fe | Oxalate extractable Al | |
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Title: Glucose-induced priming effects in soils across Europe | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: staff of European Commission - Joint Research Centre Year: 2022 Language: English |
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Title: Phosphorus plant removal | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Nutrients, NPK in European soils Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2022 Keywords: Phosphorus | |
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Title: High resolution cropland global soil erosion (GloSEM 1.3) | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2022 |
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Title: Land degradation debt | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Land degradation Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2021 |
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Attachments: Global Land Degradation
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Title: Soil microbial biomass and respiration | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Biodiversity Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2021 |
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Title: Water erosion in Europe by 2050 | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2021 |
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Title: Land degradation in global arable lands | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion, Land degradation Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2021 Language: en Keywords: aridity | |
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Title: Mercury content in the European Union topsoil | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination, Mercury in topsoils Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2021 Language: en Keywords: contamination | |
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Attachments: Hg distribution
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Title: LUCAS 2015 TOPSOIL data | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Sampling Project/s: LUCAS Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2020 Keywords: soil point data | Soil sampling | EU | |
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Title: Carbon mitigation potential and radiative agricultural land management | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content Registration requested: Request Form |
Country: IT Year: 2020 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) Language: en Keywords: soil organic carbon | |
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Title: Global phosphorus losses due to soil erosion | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Nutrients, Global Phosphorus Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2020 Keywords: Phosphorus | |
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Title: Global soil erosion by water in 2070 | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion – Future projections Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2020 Language: en Keywords: soil loss | |
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Title: Caesium-137 and Plutonium-239+240 in European topsoils | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination, Plutonium and Cesium inventories in European topsoils Registration requested: Request Form |
Country: IT Year: 2020 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) Language: en Keywords: erosion; radionuclides; plutonium | |
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Title: Soil Organic Matter (SOM) fractions | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Country: IT Year: 2019 Language: en Keywords: Organic Carbon Content | |
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Title: Maps of Soil Chemical properties at European scale based on LUCAS 2009/2012 topsoil data | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil pH Project/s: RECARE Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2019 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) Language: en Keywords: pH| Nitrogen| Phosphorus| Potassium | |
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Title: LUCAS 2015 Topsoil data of Switzerland | |
Resource Type: Project/s: LUCAS Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Oihane Fernandez Ugalde, Arwyn Jones, R.G. Meuli Year: 2019 Publisher: European Commission - Joint Research Centre Keywords: LUCAS | 2015 | Topsoil | spade method | gouge auger method | swizerland | |
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Title: Global Soil Erosion | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion Registration requested: Request Form |
Country: IT Year: 2019 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Language: en Keywords: Soil Erosion | land use | global | |
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Title: Soil loss due to crop harvesting in the European Union | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Harvest Erosion Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2019 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Language: en Keywords: harvest; soil loss | |
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Title: Maps of heavy metals in the soils of the EU, based on LUCAS 2009 HM data | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Gergely Toth et al. Year: 2018 Keywords: Soil | soil contamination | soil pollution | EU | HM | heavy metal | LUCAS | 2009 | |
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Title: Carbon budget in the EU agricultural soils | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Integrated Soil Modelling, Soil erosion and carbon Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Language: en Keywords: carbon budget; soil erosion; future projections | |
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Title: Biodiversity factor in soil erosion | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Soil Erodibility in Europe, Soil Biodiversity, Integrated Soil Modelling, Soil biodiversity and soil erosion Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Language: en Keywords: soil biodiversity | |
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Title: Soil profile analytical database 14 (SPADE 14) | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Language: en Keywords: Soil Profile Analytical Database of Europe; profile data; soil point data | |
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Attachments: Final_report_SPADE14.pdf
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Title: Copper distribution in topsoils in the European Union | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination Project/s: LUCAS Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Keywords: Copper| soil contamination | Cu | Vineyards | |
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Attachments: Copper distribution in EU topsoils
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