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: 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

	Title: LS-factor (Slope Length and Steepness factor) for the EU
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2015 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre

	Title: Topsoil Soil Organic Carbon (LUCAS) for EU25
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2015 Publisher: European Commission Joint Research Centre

	Title: Soil Atlas of Africa and its associated Soil Map (data)
	Resource Type: Datasets European Soil Database & soil properties Soil Projects Data Maps & Documents Atlases Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2014 Publisher: European Commission Language: en

	Title: Soil erosion in forestland in Europe (using RUSLE2015)
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2015 Publisher: European Commission - DG JRC

	Title: Pan-European SOC stock of agricultural soils
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2013 Publisher: European Commission Joint Research Centre

	Title: European Soil Database Derived data
	Resource Type: Datasets European Soil Database & soil properties Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2013 Publisher: European Commission Joint Research Centre

	Title: LUCAS 2009 TOPSOIL data
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Point Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2013

	Title: Climate Change Regional Indicators of Change and Extremes for Europe
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Projects Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2012 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission

	Title: European Landslide Susceptibility Map version 2 (ELSUS v2)
	Resource Type: Datasets Soil Threats Data Registration requested: Request Form	Year: 2018

22 Feb 2021	The JRC is recruiting a Scientific Officer for the development of an integrated soil monitoring system. Details of the post and application can be found here. Deadline for application submission is 15 March 2021.
17 Feb 2021	Land degradation in global arable lands: data and peer-reviewed paper.
3 Feb 2021	The European Commission has launched an online public consultation on the development of a new EU Soil Strategy. (Feedback period: 02 February 2021 - 28 April 2021)
21 Jan 2021	Mercury assessment in EU topsoils. A new Hg dataset at 250m resolution is available as described in the recent publication.
11 Jan 2021	Multispectral reflectance data on LUCAS 2015 are available