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Temporary Dataset Download: European Soil Database v2 Raster Library 1kmx1km

Dataset Access Expires on

25-January-2026

Notifications

  1. The data have been prepared for use by the  EU Soil Obserrvatory (EUSO) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission.
  2. The ESDB data were developed in collaboration with the European Soil Bureau Network, which holds a joint copyright to the data with the European Commission. The JRC, on behalf of the Commission, and the European Soil Bureau Network, do not accept any liability whatsoever for any error, missing data or omissions in the data, or for any loss or damage arising from its use. The DG JRC, on behalf of the Commission, agrees to provide the data free of charge but is not bound to justify the content and values contained in the databases.
  3. The user agrees to:
       a) Make proper reference to the source of the data when disseminating the results to which this agreement relates;
       b) Participate in the verification of the data (e.g. by noting and reporting any errors or omissions discovered to the JRC).

(07 May 2024)

The 71 GeoTIFF files, together with legend (.txt) and look-up files (.vat.dbf) have been zipped to:

ESDB-Raster-Library-1k-GeoTIFF-20240507.zip

Reference: 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

  1. 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
  2. Panagos Panos. The European soil database (2006) GEO: connexion, 5 (7), pp. 32-33.
  3. ESDBv2 Raster Library - a set of rasters derived from the European Soil Database distribution v2.0 (published by the European Commission and the European Soil Bureau Network, CD-ROM, EUR 19945 EN); Marc Van Liedekerke, Arwyn Jones, Panos Panagos ; 2006.
Joint Research Centre - European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC)
ID 123609
Date - Time Sun, 01/11/2026 - 16:54
Name of User Radu Irimia
Organization University of Bucharest
Type of Organization University
-- Other
E-mail radu.irimia@geo.unibuc.ro
Purpose data is needed in GIS analyses, combining multiple layers
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