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Temporary Dataset Download: Global Soil Erosion

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24-January-2026

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  1. The data provided has been prepared for use by internal research activities in the Joint Research Centre (JRC) Ispra in collaboration with University of Basel. In addition, other research organisations have participated in this research:  NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology- Environment Centre Wales (United Kingdom), World Food Programme - Roma (Italy), Freie Universität Berlin (Germany),  University of Palermo (Italy), Université Catholique de Louvain (Belgium). The work has bee also done in collaboration with Intergovernmental Technical Panel on Soils (ITPS) of the Food Agriculture Organisation (FAO).
  2. The data are the result of JRC research activities and are primarily made available for further research. The JRC does not accept any liability whatsoever for any error, missing data or omission in the data, or for any loss or damage arising from its use. The JRC agrees to provide the data free of charge but is not bound to justify the content and values contained in the databases.
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Global Soil Erosion

Verion 1.1 of the JRC/ UniBasel "RUSLE-based Global Soil Erosion Modelling platform (GloSEM)".

Download the data Zip file.

Native resolution ca. 250m (at the equator marked with a rectangle).

Shared files are resampled to ca. 25km.
We provide two RUSLE outputs:
- RUSLE Soil loss in 2012 (25km resolution)
- RUSLE Soil loss in 2001 (25km resolution)

In addition, we provide the 25km resolution resampled input datasets:
* R-factor (the original one at 1km can be downloaded from https://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/content/global-rainfall-erosivity
* K-factor
* C-factor
* LS-factor

Some country examples of datasets at the original resolution of 250m:

Vietnam

 

References / Citation:

A complete description of the methodology and the application in World is described in the paper:

Borrelli, P., Robinson, D. A., Fleischer, L. R., Lugato, E., Ballabio, C., Alewell, C., Meusburger, K., Modugno, S., Schütt, B., Ferro, V., Bagarello, V., Van Oost, K., Montanarella, L & Panagos, P. (2017). An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion. Nature communications, 8(1), 2013.


Contacts:

ESDAC: ec-esdac@ec.europa.eu
Panos Panagos:    Panos.PANAGOS@ec.europa.eu    

Coordinates: GCS_WGS_1984

An example of the high resolution 250m soil loss maps and their ability to detect anthropogenic disturbances is provided for comparison (location - Amazon rainforest, headwater of the Madeira River).
This example show the "original" data at 250m modelled in this study. In case researchers/policy makers have specific requests with high priority or proposals for joint collaborations to develop new studies with the high resolution data, then please contact Panos Panagos / Pasquale Borrelli. However, we cannot ensure that we can cover the requests due to heavy workload.

Global Soil Erosion

Borrelli P., Robinson D.A., Fleischer L.R., Lugato E., Ballabio C., Alewell C., Meusburger K., Modugno, S., Schutt, B. Ferro, V. Bagarello, V. Van Oost, K., Montanarella, L., Panagos P. 2017. An assessment of the global impact of 21st century land use change on soil erosion.  Nature Communications, 8 (1): art. no. 2013

Joint Research Centre - European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC)
ID 123573
Date - Time Fri, 01/09/2026 - 17:16
Name of User yuyuren
Organization 湖南科技大学
Type of Organization University
-- Other
E-mail 2819392917@qq.com
Purpose final assignment about soil conservation
Notes

When making reference to the ESDAC

  • 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
  • European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC), esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu, European Commission, Joint Research Centre