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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 
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On top of the list below, there is also a handy one-page overview of all datasets 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) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2001 Publisher: European Commission –- DG JRC Keywords: European Soil Database; Soil Geographical Database of Eurasia; SGDBE; Soils; Land Management; European soil bureau network; |
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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 Keywords: SGDBE; Soil Geographical Database of Eurasia; PTRDB; Pedotransfer Rules Database; Soil Profile Analytical Database; Europe; SPADBE; HYPRES; ESDB; |
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Title: Soil porosity prediction across Europe | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Compaction Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2026 Keywords: Porosity |
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Title: REDES 2.0 | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Rainfall Erosivity in Europe Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2026 Keywords: erosivity |
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Title: Global post-fire soil erosion | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Post-fire Soil Erosion Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2026 Keywords: fires |
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Title: LUCAS Heavy Metals | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination Project/s: LUCAS Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2026 Keywords: pollution |
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Title: Conservation outcomes of dietary transitions across different values of nature | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2025 Keywords: diet shift |
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Title: Impact of Healthy Diet Shifts on Soil Greenhouse Gas Emissions Across Europe | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2025 |
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Title: Inter- and intra-laboratory replicate measurements of soil organic carbon for LUCAS | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2025 Keywords: Laboratory analysis |
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Title: Optimizing phosphorus inputs in EU agricultural soils | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Nutrients, Phosphorus budget in topsoils Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2025 Keywords: Phosphorus |
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Title: Global Soil Organic Carbon displaced due to erosion | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2025 Keywords: SOC losses |
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Title: Projected SOC changes by 2070 under the RCP4.5 scenario | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content, Topsoil Soil Organic Carbon (LUCAS) Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2025 Keywords: organic carbon |
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Title: Aboveground biomass carbon over the Amazon for 2010-2020 | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2025 Keywords: organic carbon |
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Title: Dissolved cadmium content and Oxalate-extractable iron in EU and China | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination, Cadmium in topsoils Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2025 Keywords: soil contamination; |
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 Spatial interpolation map of total and dissolved Cd. |
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Title: Pesticides and Soil Biodiversity | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Biodiversity Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2026 |
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Title: Risk of heavy metals from application of sewage sludge | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination, Sewage sludge and ecological risk of heavy metals Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2025 Keywords: soil contamination |
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Title: Gully erosion in the EU | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Gully Erosion Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2025 Keywords: Gully |
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Title: Soil Carbon Risk Index | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2025 Keywords: SOC |
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Title: Observed/typical SOC index | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2025 Keywords: SOC; Soil Organic Carbon |
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Observed/typical SOC index classes |
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Title: Soil function data measured in LUCAS 2018 sites across the EU | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Biodiversity Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2025 |
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Title: DNA metagenomes - Soil biodiversity | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Biodiversity, DNA barcodes for soil biodiversity Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2024 Keywords: DNA; Soil biodiversity |
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Title: European Hydropedological Data Inventory (EU-HYDI) database | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Hydraulic Properties Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2024 Publisher: European Commision Keywords: soil hydraulic properties; soil properties |
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Title: Land Degradation in Europe | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Land degradation Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2024 Keywords: land degradation; Soil degradation; Indicators |
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Title: Soil degradation indicators in EU | |
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Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Wind Erosion, Soil Compaction, Soil Biodiversity, Soil Contamination, Land degradation Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2024 Keywords: soil degradation; soil health; EU Soil Health Dashboard |
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Title: Clay mineral inventory in soils of Europe based on LUCAS 2015 survey soil samples | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Yunta Mezquita, F., Van Liedekerke, M., Fernández Ugalde, O., Németh, T., Balázs, R.B., Keresztes, M.A., Weiszburg, T., Rábl, E., Királyné Tóth, J., Gazsi, Z., Kovács, I., Ruíz García, A.I., Cuevas, J., Van Eynde, E., Wojda, P., Panagos, P., Jones, A. Year: 2024 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre Language: English Keywords: LUCAS; Land Use Cover Area Frame Survey; Clay minerals |
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Download list of datasets (title, year, abstract)
