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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: Soil GHG fluxes using LUCAS soil-DayCent (for EU) | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content, Soil climate regulation Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Keywords: Climate change | |
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Title: Net erosion and sediment transport using WaTEM/SEDEM (for EU) | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Europe (Baseline), Sediment transport using WaTEM/SEDEM Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Keywords: RUSLE2015; Topographic factor; Sediment distribution; net soil loss; sediment deposition | |
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Attachments: NetErosioin_Deposition.jpg
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Title: WRB Data for the Soil Atlas of the Northern Circumpolar Region | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Publisher: European Commission - Joint Research Centre Keywords: Northern Circumpolar | |
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Title: Global Rainfall Erosivity | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Rainfall Erosivity, Future Global Rainfall Erosivity in 2050 and 2070, Satellite-based Global R-factor, Rainfall Erosivity in Europe Registration requested: Request Form |
Country: IT Author: Panos Panagos, Cristiano Ballabio Year: 2017 Publisher: European Commission, Joint research Centre Language: en Keywords: erosion | erosivity | |
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Title: 3D Soil Hydraulic Database of Europe at 1 km and 250 m resolution | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Brigitta Tóth, Melanie Weynants, László Pásztor, Tomislav Hengl Year: 2017 Publisher: Wiley Online Library Keywords: Soil | soil hydraulic properties | europe | |
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Title: N2O emissions from agricultural soils in Europe | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content, Soil climate regulation 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) | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2016 Keywords: soil biomass productivity | grassland | cropland | forestland | |
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Title: Maps indicating the availability of Raw Material from soils in the European Union | |
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 Keywords: Soils | EU | raw material | organic soil material | soil material for constructions | |
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Title: Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) Projections for Europe | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content 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) | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Tamas Hermann, Gergely Toth of the European Commission JRC Year: 2016 Keywords: Soil | human activties | |
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Title: Maps of preservation capacity of cultural artefacts and buried materials in soils in the EU | |
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 Keywords: Soil | preservation | capacity | |
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Title: Maps of the Storing and Filtering Capacity of Soils in Europe | |
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 Keywords: Soil | storing | filtering | capacity | |
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Title: Maps of indicators of soil hydraulic properties for Europe | |
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 | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Emanuele Lugato, Joint Research Centre European Commission Year: 2016 Keywords: soil organic carbon | SOC | saturation capacity | |
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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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2016 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
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Title: Soil erosion by water (RUSLE2015) | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Europe (Baseline), Soil Erodibility in Europe, Rainfall Erosivity in Europe, Cover Management Factor, Support Practices Factor, Slope Length and Steepness factor (LS-factor) Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2015 Keywords: RUSLE | soil erodibility | rain erosivity | Management practices | agricultural sustainability | policy scenarios | |
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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) | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2015 Keywords: Texture | clay | silt | sand | awc | available water capacity | Bulk density | |
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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 | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Cover Management Factor Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2015 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre Keywords: Agriculture | C-factor | Cover-management | LANDUM | land use | Management practices | Tillage practices | Plant residues | cover crops | soil conservation | |
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Title: Global Landform classification | |
Resource Type: Project/s: Completed Projects, Landform Classification Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2008 Publisher: European Commission - DG JRC Keywords: SRTM V4 | CIAT/JRC | void filled data | Terrain | |
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Title: Support Practices factor (P-factor) for the EU | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Support Practices Factor Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2015 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre Keywords: RUSLE | GAEC | stone walls | grass margins | LUCAS | contour farming | |
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Title: LS-factor (Slope Length and Steepness factor) for the EU | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Slope Length and Steepness factor (LS-factor) Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2015 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre Keywords: Soil Erosion | Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) | LS-factor | System for Automated Geoscientific Analyses (SAGA) | Digital Elevation Model (DEM) | europe | |
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Title: Topsoil Soil Organic Carbon (LUCAS) for EU25 | |
Resource Type: Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content, Topsoil Soil Organic Carbon (LUCAS) Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2014 Publisher: European Commission Joint Research Centre Keywords: SOC | organic carbon | content | policy | |
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Title: Soil Atlas of Africa and its associated Soil Map (data) | |
Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2014 Publisher: European Commission Language: en Keywords: Soil | Atlas | Africa | |
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