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: Copper distribution in topsoils
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2018

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

	Title: Net erosion and sediment transport using WaTEM/SEDEM
	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

	Title: Soil erosion by water (RUSLE2015)
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2015
	Attachments: Soil loss by water Erosion in Europe

	Title: Topsoil physical properties for Europe (based on LUCAS topsoil data)
	Resource Type: Datasets European Soil Database & soil properties Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2015
	Attachments: Clay (%) , Sand (%), Silt (%), Coarse Fragments (%), Bulk Density, Available Water Capacity, USDA Texture

	Title: Cover Management factor (C-factor) for the EU
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2015 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre
	Attachments: Cover Management (C-factor) in Europe, Influence of Tillage practices in C-factor reduction, Influence of Cover Crops in C-factor reduction, Influence of Plant Residues in C-factor reduction, C-factor in arable lands aggregated in NUTS2 level

	Title: Global Landform classification
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Projects Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2008 Publisher: European Commission - DG JRC

	Title: Support Practices factor (P-factor) for the EU
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2015 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre


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7 May 2018	Further ancillary spatial datasets (Climate-Physiographic Regions , Slope Angle, Lithology, Land Cover) of the recent European Landslide Susceptibility Map version 2 (ELSUS v2) are now available
13 Mar 2018	Soil carbon sink? It depends also on nitrogen. Soil GHG fluxes using LUCAS soil-DayCent. Find more in our Nature article
13 Mar 2018	A new version 2 of the European Landslide Susceptibility Map (ELSUS v2) is now available
5 Mar 2018	An estimate of net erosion and sediment transport using WaTEM/SEDEM in European Union
5 Feb 2018	New G2 soil erosion data covering 5 study areas: Cyprus, Crete (GR), Tirana (AL), Korece (AL), Strymonas (GR/BG). An update of the model is also provided.