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 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
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: Historical reconstruction of soil erosion in Europe
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2022

	Title: Multiple concurrent soil erosion processes
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2022

	Title: Phosphorus budget and P stocks
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2022

	Title: Global rainfall erosivity projections for 2050 and 2070
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2022

	Title: LUCAS 2018 TOPSOIL data
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Point Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2022 Publisher: European Commission

	Title: Glucose-induced priming effects in soils across Europe
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Functions Data Registration requested: Request Form	Author: staff of European Commission - Joint Research Centre Year: 2022 Language: English

	Title: Phosphorus plant removal
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2022

	Title: High resolution cropland global soil erosion (GloSEM 1.3)
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2022

	Title: Land degradation debt
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2021
	Attachments: Global Land Degradation

	Title: Soil microbial biomass and respiration
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2021

	Title: Water erosion in Europe by 2050
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2021

	Title: Land degradation in global arable lands
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2021 Language: en

	Title: Mercury content in the European Union topsoil
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2021 Language: en
	Attachments: Hg distribution

	Title: LUCAS 2015 TOPSOIL data
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Point Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2020

	Title: Carbon mitigation potential and radiative agricultural land management
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Functions Data Registration requested: Request Form	Country: IT Year: 2020 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) Language: en

	Title: Global phosphorus losses due to soil erosion
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2020

	Title: Global soil erosion by water in 2070
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2020 Language: en

	Title: Caesium-137 and Plutonium-239+240 in European topsoils
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Country: IT Year: 2020 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) Language: en

	Title: Soil Organic Matter (SOM) fractions
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Country: IT Year: 2019 Language: en

	Title: Maps of Soil Chemical properties at European scale based on LUCAS 2009/2012 topsoil data
	Resource Type: Datasets European Soil Database & soil properties Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2019 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) Language: en
	Attachments: pH in Water (H2O), pH in CaCl2 solution, C:N ratio, Cation Exchange Capacity, Calcium carbonates, Nitrogen, Phosphorus, Potassium

	Title: LUCAS 2015 Topsoil data of Switzerland
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Point Data Registration requested: Request Form	Author: Oihane Fernandez Ugalde, Arwyn Jones, R.G. Meuli Year: 2019 Publisher: European Commission - Joint Research Centre

	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

14 Dec 2022	Data on first ever multiple erosion processes in arable lands as described in the Nature Sustainability paper
11 Nov 2022	Phosphorus budget and P stocks in EU. Data with detailed P inputs (Fertlizer, manure, atmospheric deposition) and P ouptus (Crop harvesting, erosion).
10 Nov 2022	LUCAS: three campaigns with available data: 2009/12, 2015 and 2018
9 Nov 2022	European Soil Data Centre 2.0. A study describing ESDAC developments in last 10 years.
9 Oct 2022	Dataset on Global assessment of storm disaster-prone areas (rainstorm aggressiveness and damaging hydrological events)