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: 

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Glucose-induced priming effects in soils across Europe
Title: Glucose-induced priming effects in soils across Europe
Resource Type:
Registration requested: Request Form
Author: staff of European Commission - Joint Research Centre
Year: 2022
Language: English

Phosphorus plant removal
Title: Phosphorus plant removal
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Nutrients, NPK in European soils
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2022
Keywords: Phosphorus |


Land degradation debt
Title: Land degradation debt
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Land degradation
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2021

Soil microbial biomass and respiration
Title: Soil microbial biomass and respiration
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Biodiversity
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2021

Water erosion in Europe by 2050
Title: Water erosion in Europe by 2050
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2021

Land degradation in global arable lands
Title: Land degradation in global arable lands
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion, Land degradation
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2021
Language: en
Keywords: aridity |

Mercury content in the European Union topsoil
Title: Mercury content in the European Union topsoil
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination, Mercury in topsoils
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2021
Language: en
Keywords: contamination |
Attachments: Image icon Hg distribution

LUCAS 2015 TOPSOIL data
Title: LUCAS 2015 TOPSOIL data
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Sampling
Project/s: LUCAS
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2020
Keywords: soil point data | Soil sampling | EU |

Carbon mitigation potential and radiative agricultural land management
Title: Carbon mitigation potential and radiative agricultural land management
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Organic Carbon Content
Registration requested: Request Form
Country: IT
Year: 2020
Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Language: en
Keywords: soil organic carbon |

Global phosphorus losses due to soil erosion
Title: Global phosphorus losses due to soil erosion
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Nutrients, Global Phosphorus
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2020
Keywords: Phosphorus |

Global soil erosion by water in 2070
Title: Global soil erosion by water in 2070
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion – Future projections
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2020
Language: en
Keywords: soil loss |

Caesium-137 and Plutonium-239+240 in European topsoils
Title: Caesium-137 and Plutonium-239+240 in European topsoils
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination, Plutonium and Cesium inventories in European topsoils
Registration requested: Request Form
Country: IT
Year: 2020
Publisher: European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Language: en
Keywords: erosion; radionuclides; plutonium |

Soil Organic Matter (SOM) fractions
Title: Soil Organic Matter (SOM) fractions
Resource Type:
Registration requested: Request Form
Country: IT
Year: 2019
Language: en
Keywords: Organic Carbon Content |


LUCAS 2015 Topsoil data of Switzerland
Title: LUCAS 2015 Topsoil data of Switzerland
Resource Type:
Project/s: LUCAS
Registration requested: Request Form
Author: Oihane Fernandez Ugalde, Arwyn Jones, R.G. Meuli
Year: 2019
Publisher: European Commission - Joint Research Centre
Keywords: LUCAS | 2015 | Topsoil | spade method | gouge auger method | swizerland |

Global Soil Erosion
Title: Global Soil Erosion
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Global Soil Erosion
Registration requested: Request Form
Country: IT
Year: 2019
Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
Language: en
Keywords: Soil Erosion | land use | global |

Soil loss due to crop harvesting in the European Union
Title: Soil loss due to crop harvesting in the European Union
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Harvest Erosion
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2019
Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
Language: en
Keywords: harvest; soil loss |

Maps of heavy metals in the soils of the EU, based on LUCAS 2009 HM data
Title: Maps of heavy metals in the soils of the EU, based on LUCAS 2009 HM data
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination
Registration requested: Request Form
Author: Gergely Toth et al.
Year: 2018
Keywords: Soil | soil contamination | soil pollution | EU | HM | heavy metal | LUCAS | 2009 |

Carbon budget in the EU agricultural soils
Title: Carbon budget in the EU agricultural soils
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Integrated Soil Modelling, Soil erosion and carbon
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2018
Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
Language: en
Keywords: carbon budget; soil erosion; future projections |

Biodiversity factor in soil erosion
Title: Biodiversity factor in soil erosion
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Erosion by water, Soil Erodibility in Europe, Soil Biodiversity, Integrated Soil Modelling, Soil biodiversity and soil erosion
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2018
Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
Language: en
Keywords: soil biodiversity |


Copper distribution in topsoils in the European Union
Title: Copper distribution in topsoils in the European Union
Resource Type:
Theme/Sub-Theme: Soil Contamination
Project/s: LUCAS
Registration requested: Request Form
Year: 2018
Publisher: Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
Keywords: Copper| soil contamination | Cu | Vineyards |