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  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: 

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Soil Bulk Density in Europe
Title: Soil Bulk Density in Europe
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Compaction
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2024
Keywords: Bulk density; Packing Density; Soil compaction |

Pesticides residues in European agricultural soils
Title: Pesticides residues in European agricultural soils
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2024
Keywords: pesticides |

Soil organic carbon losses with lateral transfer to the oceans
Title: Soil organic carbon losses with lateral transfer to the oceans
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2024
Keywords: carbon losses |

Phosphorus cycle in European agricultural soils
Title: Phosphorus cycle in European agricultural soils
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Nutrients, Phosphorus budget in topsoils
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2024
Keywords: Phosphorus |

Erosion potential method (EPM)
Title: Erosion potential method (EPM)
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2024
Keywords: erosion potential |

Cadmium in topsoils of the European Union
Title: Cadmium in topsoils of the European Union
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination, Cadmium in topsoils
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2023
Keywords: cadmium |

Global Soil Erodibility
Title: Global Soil Erodibility
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2023
Keywords: soil erodibility |





Zinc concentrations in EU topsoils
Title: Zinc concentrations in EU topsoils
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2023
Keywords: soil contamination |


Bacterial & fungal biomass (fatty acid methyl esters)
Title: Bacterial & fungal biomass (fatty acid methyl esters)
Resource Type:
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2023

Cover Crops across Europe
Title: Cover Crops across Europe
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Soil Organic Carbon Content
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2023
Keywords: cover crops |


Soil biodiversity - DNA Bacteria and Fungi
Title: Soil biodiversity - DNA Bacteria and Fungi
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Biodiversity
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2023
Keywords: Biodiversity |

Post-fire soil erosion in Europe
Title: Post-fire soil erosion in Europe
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Post-fire Soil Erosion
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2023
Keywords: Soil Erosion |

Historical reconstruction of soil erosion in Europe
Title: Historical reconstruction of soil erosion in Europe
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2022
Keywords: soil erosion; reconstruction |

Multiple concurrent soil erosion processes
Title: Multiple concurrent soil erosion processes
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Wind Erosion, Harvest Erosion
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2022
Keywords: soil loss |

Phosphorus budget and P stocks
Title: Phosphorus budget and P stocks
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Nutrients, NPK in European soils
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2022
Keywords: NPK; Phosphorus |