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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 
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., 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: European Soil Database v2.0 (vector and attribute data) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2001 Publisher: European Commission –- DG JRC |
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Title: European Soil Database v2 Raster Library 1kmx1km | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2006 Publisher: European Commission – DG JRC |
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Title: Land degradation in global arable lands | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2021 Language: en |
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Title: Mercury content in the European Union topsoil | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2021 Language: en |
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Attachments:
 Hg distribution |
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Title: LUCAS 2015 TOPSOIL data | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2020 |
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Title: Carbon mitigation potential and radiative agricultural land management | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Country: IT Year: 2020 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) Language: en |
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Title: Global phosphorus losses due to soil erosion | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2020 |
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Title: Global soil erosion by water in 2070 | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2020 Language: en |
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Title: Caesium-137 and Plutonium-239+240 in European topsoils | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Country: IT Year: 2020 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) Language: en |
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Title: Soil Organic Matter (SOM) fractions | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Country: IT Year: 2019 Language: en |
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Title: Maps of Soil Chemical properties at European scale based on LUCAS 2009/2012 topsoil data | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2019 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) Language: en |
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Title: LUCAS 2015 Topsoil data of Switzerland | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Oihane Fernandez Ugalde, Arwyn Jones, R.G. Meuli Year: 2019 Publisher: European Commission - Joint Research Centre |
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Title: Global Soil Erosion | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Country: IT Year: 2019 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Language: en |
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Title: Soil loss due to crop harvesting in the European Union | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2019 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Language: en |
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Title: Maps of heavy metals in the soils of the EU, based on LUCAS 2009 HM data | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Gergely Toth et al. Year: 2018 |
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Title: Carbon budget in the EU agricultural soils | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Language: en |
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Title: Biodiversity factor in soil erosion. | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission Language: en |
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Title: Soil profile analytical database 14 (SPADE 14) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Language: en |
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Title: Copper distribution in topsoils in the European Union | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission |
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Title: Soil GHG fluxes using LUCAS soil-DayCent (for EU) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 |
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Title: Net erosion and sediment transport using WaTEM/SEDEM (for EU) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 |
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Title: WRB Data for the Soil Atlas of the Northern Circumpolar Region | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 Publisher: European Commission - Joint Research Centre |
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Title: Global Rainfall Erosivity | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Country: IT Author: Panos Panagos, Cristiano Ballabio Year: 2017 Publisher: European Commission, Joint research Centre Language: en |
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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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Title: Climate Change Regional Indicators of Change and Extremes for Europe | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2012 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission |
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Title: European Landslide Susceptibility Map version 2 (ELSUS v2) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2018 |
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Title: Soil erosion by wind | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2016 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) Language: en |
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Title: Rainfall Erosivity in the EU and Switzerland (R-factor) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2015 Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre |
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Title: Global Soil Organic Carbon Estimates | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: R. Hiederer, M. Köchy Year: 2012 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission |
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Title: Soil Erodibility (K- Factor) High Resolution dataset for Europe | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2014 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission |
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Title: iSOIL project (Interactions between soil related sciences) | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2011 Publisher: JRC and iSOIL partners |
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Title: G2 soil erosion model data | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2013 Publisher: JRC and Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
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Title: European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) Data & PERSAM software tool | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2015 Publisher: EFSA and JRC |
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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 | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2011 Publisher: JRC |
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Title: Soil Erosion Risk Assessment in Europe data (MESALES model) - Dataset | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2002 Language: en |
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Title: Groundwater Resources maps of Europe | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2006 Publisher: European Commission - DG JRC |
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Title: Soil pH in Europe | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2010 Language: en |
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Attachments:
pH in Europe |
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Title: Saline and Sodic Soils in European Union | |
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Resource Type: 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 | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Beata Houšková Year: 2008 Language: en |
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Attachments:
Natural susceptibility to compaction |
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Title: OCTOP: Topsoil Organic Carbon Content for Europe | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Author: Jones, R.J.A., Hiederer, R., Rusco, E., Loveland, P.J. and Montanarella, L. Year: 2004 Language: en |
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Attachments:
Topsoil Organic Carbon Content (%) |
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Title: Pan European Soil Erosion Risk Assessment - PESERA | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2003 Language: en |
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Title: Soil Profile Analytical Database 2 | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2009 |
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Title: SINFO: ESDB Data adapted for the MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System | |
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Resource Type: Registration requested: Request Form |
Year: 2005 Publisher: European Commission - DG JRC |
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Title: Legend Files | |
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Year: 2010 |
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Title: Google Earth Files | |
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Author: Panagos P., Van Liedekerke M., Jones A., Montanarella L. Year: 2008 |
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Title: European Soil Database v2 Raster Library 10kmx10km | |
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Year: 2006 Publisher: European Commission – DG JRC |
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Title: Global Applications of Soil Erosion Modelling Tracker | |
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Year: 2021 |
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Title: Support to Renewable Energy Directive | |
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Year: 2010 Publisher: JRC |
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Title: Desertification risk in Greece | |
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Country: GR Year: 2018 Publisher: Joint Research Centre and Agricultural University of Athens Language: en |
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Title: Heavy Metals in topsoils | |
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Year: 2008 |
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Title: Progress in the management of contaminated sites in Europe | |
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Year: 2013 Publisher: European Commission |
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Title: Soil Sealing & food security (Loss of Potential Agricultural Production Capability) | |
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Year: 2014 |
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Title: SPADE/M | |
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Year: 2004 |
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Title: European Reference Grids | |
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Year: 2009 |
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Title: Biochar Meta-analysis Database | |
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Year: 2012 Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission |
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Title: ECALP: Ecopedological Map of the Alps | |
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Year: 2005 Publisher: European Commission - DG JRC |
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