Datasets - ESDAC - European Commission

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 soil point data (LUCAS, SPADE, etc)
A fourth 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.

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., 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
The European Soil Data Centre: a one-stop-shop for soil science "Science for Environment Policy": European Commission DG Environment News Alert Service (9 February 2012)

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	Title: European Soil Database v2.0 (vector and attribute data)
	Resource Type: Datasets European Soil Database & soil properties Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2001 Publisher: European Commission –- DG JRC

	Title: European Soil Database v2 Raster Library 1kmx1km
	Resource Type: Datasets European Soil Database & soil properties Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2006 Publisher: European Commission – DG JRC

	Title: Global Soil Erosion
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Country: IT Year: 2019 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Language: en

	Title: Soil loss due to crop harvesting in the European Union
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2019 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Language: en

	Title: Maps of heavy metals in the soils of the EU, based on LUCAS 2009 HM data
	Resource Type: Datasets Registration requested: Request Form	Author: Gergely Toth et al. Year: 2018

	Title: Carbon budget in the EU agricultural soils
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2018 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Language: en

	Title: Biodiversity factor in soil erosion.
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2018 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Language: en

	Title: Copper distribution in topsoils in the European Union
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2018 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

	Title: Soil GHG fluxes using LUCAS soil-DayCent (for EU)
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Functions Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2018

	Title: Net erosion and sediment transport using WaTEM/SEDEM (for EU)
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2018

	Title: WRB Data for the Soil Atlas of the Northern Circumpolar Region
	Resource Type: Datasets European Soil Database & soil properties Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2018 Publisher: European Commission - Joint Research Centre

	Title: Global Rainfall Erosivity
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Country: IT Author: Panos Panagos, Cristiano Ballabio Year: 2017 Publisher: European Commission, Joint research Centre Language: en

	Title: 3D Soil Hydraulic Database of Europe at 1 km and 250 m resolution
	Resource Type: Datasets Registration requested: Request Form	Author: Brigitta Tóth, Melanie Weynants, László Pásztor, Tomislav Hengl Year: 2017 Publisher: Wiley Online Library

	Title: N2O emissions from agricultural soils in Europe
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Projects Data Registration requested: Request Form	Author: Emanuele Lugato Year: 2017 Publisher: European Commission - DG JRC

	Title: Soil Biomass Productivity maps of grasslands and pasture, of croplands and of forest areas in the European Union (EU27)
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Functions Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2016

	Title: Maps indicating the availability of Raw Material from soils in the European Union.
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Functions Data Registration requested: Request Form	Author: Gergely Tóth, Ciro Gardi, Katalin Bódis, Éva Ivits, Ece Aksoy, Arwyn Jones, Simon Jeffrey, Thorum Petursdottir and Luca Montanarella, European Commission Year: 2016

	Title: Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) Projections for Europe
	Resource Type: Datasets Registration requested: Request Form	Author: Yusuf Yigini and Panos Panagos, European Commission Year: 2016

	Title: European map of soil suitability to provide a platform for most human activities (EU28)
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Functions Data Registration requested: Request Form	Author: Tamas Hermann, Gergely Toth of the European Commission JRC Year: 2016

	Title: Maps of preservation capacity of cultural artefacts and buried materials in soils in the EU
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Functions Data Maps & Documents Maps Soil Data Maps Registration requested: Request Form	Author: Mark Kibblewhite, Cranfield University, Gergely Toth, European Commission, Tamas Hermann, European Commission Year: 2016 Publisher: European Soil Data Centre

	Title: Maps of the Storing and Filtering Capacity of Soils in Europe
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Functions Data Maps & Documents Maps Soil Data Maps Registration requested: Request Form	Author: András Makó, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Mihály Kocsis, University of Pannonia, Gyöngyi Barna, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Gergely Tóth, European Commission Year: 2015 Publisher: European Commission

	Title: Maps of indicators of soil hydraulic properties for Europe
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Functions Data Maps & Documents Maps Soil Data Maps Registration requested: Request Form	Country: IT Author: Gergely Toth, Melanie Weynants Year: 2016 Publisher: JRC - European Commission

	Title: Soil Organic Carbon - Saturation Capacity in Europe
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Functions Data Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Author: Emanuele Lugato, Joint Research Centre European Commission Year: 2016

	Title: Predicted distribution of SOC content in Europe (based on LUCAS, BioSoil and CZO) in the context of the EU-funded SoilTrEC project.
	Resource Type: Datasets Maps & Documents Documents Publications in Journals Registration requested: Request Form	Author: Ece Aksoy , Yusuf Yigini , Luca Montanarella Year: 2016 Publisher: PLoS ONE 11(3): e0152098. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0152098

	Title: Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas Maps
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Functions Data Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Author: Alberto Orgiazzi, Arwyn Jones, Luca Montanarella Year: 2016

	Title: Potential threats to soil biodiversity in Europe
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2016 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre


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16 Apr 2019	Rainfall Erosivity Database at European Scale (REDES): Annual R-factor values are made available for 1,675 stations in Europe
13 Mar 2019	The European Soil Partnership Plenary Meeting was organized on 28+29 March 2019. In anticipation of the report of the meeting, you can find the presentations of the meeting here.
4 Mar 2019	Soil loss due to crop harvesting in the European Union. Data are available.
19 Dec 2018	Maps of heavy metals in the soils of the EU, based on LUCAS 2009 HM data
10 Dec 2018	For the convenience of the user, the original excel files of LUCAS 2009 Topsoil data have been linked to Shapefiles. For more information: see the LUCAS 2009 point data and the new GIS files.