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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: European Soil Database v2.0 (vector and attribute data) | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2001 Publisher: European Commission –- DG JRC Keywords: European Soil Database | Soil Geographical Database of Eurasia | Base de Donnees Geographique des Sols d'Eurasie au 1/1 000 000 | SGDBE | Soils | Soil | Environment | Land Management | European soil bureau network | geo-scientific information | |
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Title: European Soil Database v2 Raster Library 1kmx1km | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2006 Publisher: European Commission – DG JRC Keywords: Soil | Raster | Grid | SGDBE | Soil Geographical Database of Eurasia | PTRDB | Pedotransfer Rules Database | Soil Profile Analytical Database of Europe | SPADBE | Database of Hydraulic Properties of European Soils | HYPRES | Inspire | ESDB | The European Soil Database | |
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Title: Soil Bulk Density in Europe | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Compaction Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2024 Keywords: Bulk density; Packing Density; Soil compaction | |
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Title: Pesticides residues in European agricultural soils | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2024 Keywords: pesticides | |
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Title: Soil organic carbon losses with lateral transfer to the oceans | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2024 Keywords: carbon losses | |
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Title: Phosphorus cycle in European agricultural soils | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Nutrients, Phosphorus budget in topsoils Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2024 Keywords: Phosphorus | |
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Title: Erosion potential method (EPM) | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2024 Keywords: erosion potential | |
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Title: Cadmium in topsoils of the European Union | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination, Cadmium in topsoils Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2023 Keywords: cadmium | |
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Title: Global Soil Erodibility | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2023 Keywords: soil erodibility | |
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Title: Changes in Soil Organic Carbon in Croplands and Grasslands between 2009 and 2018 | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content, SOC Changes, Agricultural SOC Stocks, Topsoil Soil Organic Carbon (LUCAS) Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2023 Keywords: SOC | |
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Title: Multiple co-occurring erosion processes on global cropland | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2023 |
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Title: GloREDa | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Rainfall Erosivity, Future Global Rainfall Erosivity in 2050 and 2070, Rainfall Erosivity in Europe, Monthly erosivity Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2023 |
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Title: Soil biodiversity dna eukaryotes | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Biodiversity, Continent-wide DNA analysis of soil eukaryotes Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2023 Keywords: Eukaryotes | |
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Title: Zinc concentrations in EU topsoils | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2023 Keywords: soil contamination | |
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Title: Projected Land Conservation Impacts on Global Soil Erosion and Pollination Sufficiency | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2023 |
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Title: Bacterial & fungal biomass (fatty acid methyl esters) | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2023 |
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Title: Cover Crops across Europe | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Soil Organic Carbon Content Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2023 Keywords: cover crops | |
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Title: EUropean SEDiments collaboration (EUSEDcollab) database | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Sediment transport using WaTEM/SEDEM, EUropean SEDiments collaboration (EUSEDcollab) Network Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2023 |
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Title: Soil biodiversity - DNA Bacteria and Fungi | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Biodiversity Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2023 Keywords: Biodiversity | |
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Title: Post-fire soil erosion in Europe | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Post-fire Soil Erosion Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2023 Keywords: Soil Erosion | |
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Title: Historical reconstruction of soil erosion in Europe | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2022 Keywords: soil erosion; reconstruction | |
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Title: Multiple concurrent soil erosion processes | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Wind Erosion, Harvest Erosion Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2022 Keywords: soil loss | |
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Title: Phosphorus budget and P stocks | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Nutrients, NPK in European soils Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2022 Keywords: NPK; Phosphorus | |
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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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