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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 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
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Title: Pan-European SOC stock of agricultural soils | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content, Agricultural SOC Stocks Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2013 Publisher: European Commission Joint Research Centre Keywords: SOC | Stocvks | CAPRESE | CENTURY | |
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Title: European Soil Database Derived data | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2013 Publisher: European Commission Joint Research Centre Keywords: European Soil Database | HWSD | layers | Texture | Bulk density | Water Retention | |
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Title: LUCAS 2009 TOPSOIL data | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Sampling Project/s: LUCAS Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2013 |
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Title: Climate Change Regional Indicators of Change and Extremes for Europe | |
Resource Type: Project/s: Completed Projects, CC_ICE Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2012 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Keywords: Climate change | Indicators | Temperature | Precipitation | Precipitation intensity | Relative Humidity | Aridity Index | Humidex | |
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Title: European Landslide Susceptibility Map version 2 (ELSUS v2) | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Landslides Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Keywords: landslides | natural hazards | susceptibility | |
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Title: Soil erosion by wind | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Wind Erosion, Wind erosion in European agricultural soils - RWEQ, Land susceptibility to wind erosion Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2016 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) Language: en Keywords: RWEQ | wind erosion | ILSWE | sustainability | |
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Title: Rainfall Erosivity in the EU and Switzerland (R-factor) | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Rainfall Erosivity in Europe, Future rainfall erosivity (projections for 2050 based on climate change), Monthly erosivity, R-factor in Italy, R-factor and Erosivity Density in Greece, R-Factor in Switzerland Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2015 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre Keywords: Rainfall erosivity | R-Factor | RUSLE | REDES | Rainfall intensity | soil degradation | erosivity density | |
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Title: Global Soil Organic Carbon Estimates | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: R. Hiederer, M. Köchy Year: 2012 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Keywords: organic carbon | Harmonized World Soil Database | Climate change | |
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Title: Soil Erodibility (K- Factor) High Resolution dataset for Europe | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Soil Erodibility in Europe Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2014 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Keywords: soil erodibility | K-Factor | USLE | LUCAS | Erosion Modelling | stone cover | Stoniness | coarse fragments | |
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Title: iSOIL project (Interactions between soil related sciences) | |
Resource Type: Project/s: iSOIL Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2011 Publisher: JRC and iSOIL partners Keywords: iSOIL | digital soil mapping | EMI | electromagnetic induction measurement | EM31 | apparent electrical conductivity | soil moisture content | TDR | |
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Title: G2 soil erosion model data | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, G2 Model Project/s: Geoland2 Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2013 Publisher: JRC and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Keywords: erosion; G2; modelling; USLE; Spatio-Temporal mapping; Critical zones; Crete; Cyprus; Albania; Strymonas | |
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Title: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Data & PERSAM software tool | |
Resource Type: Project/s: EFSA Data & Tools Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2015 Publisher: EFSA and JRC Keywords: EFSA | food safety | ECOREGION | FATE | |
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Title: Global Spatial Layers for Estimating Soil GHG Emissions from Indirect Land Use Changes(ILUC) due to the Production of Biofuels | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2011 Publisher: JRC Keywords: land use | Climate change | greenhouse gas | |
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Title: Soil Erosion Risk Assessment in Europe data (MESALES model) - Dataset | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, MESALES Model Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2002 Language: en Keywords: erosion risk | MESALES | Soil Erosion | |
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Title: Groundwater Resources maps of Europe | |
Resource Type: Project/s: Completed Projects, Groundwater Resources Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2006 Publisher: European Commission - DG JRC Keywords: Groundwater | groundwater resources | Groundwater abstraction | Hydrology | seawater intrusion | saline groundwater; groundwater flow | |
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Title: Soil pH in Europe | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil pH Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2010 Language: en Keywords: pH | |
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Attachments: pH in Europe
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Title: Saline and Sodic Soils in European Union | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Salinization Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2008 Language: en |
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Attachments: Saline and Sodic Soils in European Union
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Title: Natural susceptibility to soil compaction in Europe | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Compaction, Soil Susceptibility to Compaction Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Beata Houšková Year: 2008 Language: en Keywords: Soil | Soil susceptibility to compaction | compaction | soil compaction | |
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Attachments: Natural susceptibility to compaction
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Title: OCTOP: Topsoil Organic Carbon Content for Europe | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content, European Data Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Jones, R.J.A., Hiederer, R., Rusco, E., Loveland, P.J. and Montanarella, L. Year: 2004 Language: en Keywords: organic carbon | SOC | octop | |
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Attachments: Topsoil Organic Carbon Content (%)
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Title: Pan European Soil Erosion Risk Assessment - PESERA | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, PESERA Model Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2003 Language: en |
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Title: Soil Profile Analytical Database 2 | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2009 Keywords: Topsoil | SPADE | European Soil Database | STU | |
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Title: SINFO: ESDB Data adapted for the MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2005 Publisher: European Commission - DG JRC Keywords: Soil | CGMS | MCYFS | Crop Mars Growth Monitoring System | MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System | |
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Title: Legend Files | |
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Year: 2010 |
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Title: Sediments removal costs | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Sediment transport using WaTEM/SEDEM |
Year: 2024 Keywords: sediments; costs | |
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Title: Soil health related citizen-science projects | |
Resource Type: Project/s: Soil Mission Projects |
Year: 2024 Keywords: ECHO | |
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