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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 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 
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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., 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: 3D Soil Hydraulic Database of Europe at 1 km and 250 m resolution | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Brigitta Tóth, Melanie Weynants, László Pásztor, Tomislav Hengl Year: 2017 Publisher: Wiley Online Library |
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Title: N2O emissions from agricultural soils in Europe | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Emanuele Lugato Year: 2017 Publisher: European Commission - DG JRC |
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Title: Soil Biomass Productivity maps of grasslands and pasture, of croplands and of forest areas in the European Union (EU27) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2016 |
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Title: Maps indicating the availability of Raw Material from soils in the European Union. | |
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Resource Type: 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 |
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Title: Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) Projections for Europe | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Yusuf Yigini and Panos Panagos, European Commission Year: 2016 |
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Title: European map of soil suitability to provide a platform for most human activities (EU28) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Tamas Hermann, Gergely Toth of the European Commission JRC Year: 2016 |
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Title: Maps of preservation capacity of cultural artefacts and buried materials in soils in the EU | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Mark Kibblewhite, Cranfield University, Gergely Toth, European Commission, Tamas Hermann, European Commission Year: 2016 Publisher: European Soil Data Centre |
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Title: Maps of the Storing and Filtering Capacity of Soils in Europe | |
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Resource Type: 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 |
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Title: Maps of indicators of soil hydraulic properties for Europe | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Country: IT Author: Gergely Toth, Melanie Weynants Year: 2016 Publisher: JRC - European Commission |
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Title: Soil Organic Carbon - Saturation Capacity in Europe | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Emanuele Lugato, Joint Research Centre European Commission Year: 2016 |
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Title: Predicted distribution of SOC content in Europe (based on LUCAS, BioSoil and CZO) in the context of the EU-funded SoilTrEC project. | |
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Resource Type: 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 |
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Title: Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas Maps | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Alberto Orgiazzi, Arwyn Jones, Luca Montanarella Year: 2016 |
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Title: Potential threats to soil biodiversity in Europe | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2016 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
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Title: Soil erosion by water (RUSLE2015) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2015 |
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Attachments:
 Soil loss by water Erosion in Europe |
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Title: Topsoil physical properties for Europe (based on LUCAS topsoil data) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2015 |
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Attachments:
Clay (%) , Sand (%), Silt (%), Coarse Fragments (%), Bulk Density, Available Water Capacity, USDA Texture |
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Title: Cover Management factor (C-factor) for the EU | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2015 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
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Title: Global Landform classification | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2008 Publisher: European Commission - DG JRC |
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Title: Support Practices factor (P-factor) for the EU | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2015 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
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Title: LS-factor (Slope Length and Steepness factor) for the EU | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2015 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
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Title: Topsoil Soil Organic Carbon (LUCAS) for EU25 | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2014 Publisher: European Commission Joint Research Centre |
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Title: Soil Atlas of Africa and its associated Soil Map (data) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2014 Publisher: European Commission Language: en |
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Title: Soil erosion in forestland in Europe (using RUSLE2015) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2015 Publisher: European Commission - DG JRC |
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Title: Pan-European SOC stock of agricultural soils | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2013 Publisher: European Commission Joint Research Centre |
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Title: European Soil Database Derived data | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2013 Publisher: European Commission Joint Research Centre |
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Title: LUCAS 2009 TOPSOIL data | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2013 |
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