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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 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) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2001 Publisher: European Commission –- DG JRC |
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Title: European Soil Database v2 Raster Library 1kmx1km | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2006 Publisher: European Commission – DG JRC |
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Title: Land degradation in global arable lands | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2021 Language: en |
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Title: Mercury content in the European Union topsoil | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2021 Language: en |
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Title: LUCAS 2015 TOPSOIL data | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2020 |
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Title: Carbon mitigation potential and radiative agricultural land management | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Country: IT Year: 2020 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) Language: en |
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Title: Global phosphorus losses due to soil erosion | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2020 |
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Title: Global soil erosion by water in 2070 | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2020 Language: en |
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Title: Caesium-137 and Plutonium-239+240 in European topsoils | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Country: IT Year: 2020 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) Language: en |
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Title: Soil Organic Matter (SOM) fractions for 186 LUCAS 2009 soil samples (grassland, forest) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Country: IT Year: 2019 Language: en |
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Title: Maps of Soil Chemical properties at European scale based on LUCAS 2009/2012 topsoil data | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2019 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) Language: en |
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Title: LUCAS 2015 Topsoil data of Switzerland | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Oihane Fernandez Ugalde, Arwyn Jones, R.G. Meuli Year: 2019 Publisher: European Commission - Joint Research Centre |
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Title: Global Soil Erosion | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Country: IT Year: 2019 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Language: en |
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Title: Soil loss due to crop harvesting in the European Union | |
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Year: 2019 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Language: en |
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Title: Maps of heavy metals in the soils of the EU, based on LUCAS 2009 HM data | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Gergely Toth et al. Year: 2018 |
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Title: Carbon budget in the EU agricultural soils | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Language: en |
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Title: Biodiversity factor in soil erosion. | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Language: en |
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Title: Soil profile analytical database 14 (SPADE 14) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Language: en |
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Title: Copper distribution in topsoils in the European Union | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission |
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Title: Soil GHG fluxes using LUCAS soil-DayCent (for EU) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 |
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Title: Net erosion and sediment transport using WaTEM/SEDEM (for EU) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 |
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Title: WRB Data for the Soil Atlas of the Northern Circumpolar Region | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Publisher: European Commission - Joint Research Centre |
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Title: Global Rainfall Erosivity | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Country: IT Author: Panos Panagos, Cristiano Ballabio Year: 2017 Publisher: European Commission, Joint research Centre Language: en |
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Title: 3D Soil Hydraulic Database of Europe at 1 km and 250 m resolution | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Brigitta Tóth, Melanie Weynants, László Pásztor, Tomislav Hengl Year: 2017 Publisher: Wiley Online Library |
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Title: N2O emissions from agricultural soils in Europe | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Emanuele Lugato Year: 2017 Publisher: European Commission - DG JRC |
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