This page is an entry point to the principal LUCAS 2015 TOPSOIL data products. In order to access the data, please register using the Request Form tab.
- Topsoil data from 2015 are available as CSV files. To facilitate use of the data, .XLS and ESRI shapefile formats are also available; you may preview the readme file
- A report describing the 2015 dataset for the EU
- A report describing changes between 2009 and 2015
- Reference ancillary data describing a range of environmental conditions for the LUCAS Soil locations together with a supporting report
- (coming soon) Data from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, North Maccedonia, Montenegro, Serbia collected during 2015 using the same methodology.
- Data from samples collected during 2015 in Switzerland using the same methodology are already available from here.
Study area: European Union (EU-27) plus UK.
Format: CSV files; To facilitate use of the data, .XLS and ESRI shapefile formats are also available;
Point data. 21,859 data points. 4,246 are at new locations when compared with the 2009/2012 campaign;
Measured properties: Coarse fragments, clay, silt, sand (Texture), pH(CaCl2), pH(H2O), Electrical conductivity, Organic carbon content, Carbonates content, Phosphorus content, Total nitrogen content, Extractable potassium content
Reference Year: 2015 .
Data from the LUCAS SOIL 2009/2012 campaign are avaialble
here.
Data from the LUCAS SOIL 2018 campaign are avaialble
here.
Note that on the Eurostat website https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/lucas/data/primary-data/2015, you can find the general LUCAS 2018 data (such as observed LandUse and LandCover) which can be combined with the LUCAS SOIL 2018 data using the POINT_ID field)