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Temporary Dataset Download: OCTOP: Topsoil Organic Carbon Content for Europe

Dataset Access Expires on

09-June-2026

Notifications

  1. The data provided have been prepared for use by the Land Resource Management Unit (Institute for Environment & Sustainability) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission.
  2. The data were developed for research purposes of the JRC only and not for any other activity. 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.
  3. The permission to use the data specified above is granted on condition that, under NO CIRCUMSTANCES are these data passed to third parties. They can be used for any purpose, including commercial gain.
  4. 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).

Download "ORGANIC CARBON IN TOPSOILS IN EUROPE" data

Download the version 1.2 data - INSPIRE version

  • (8/5/2006) OCTOP INSPIRE raster: the original OCTOP (version 1.2) raster has been reprojected in order to align with the proposed INSPIRE standard GRID (for more information on this proposal, see the proceedings of the "1st Workshop on European Reference Grids". This results in a 1km raster with 5500 rows and 7500 columns, in the ETRS_LAEA co-ordinate system.

Download the version 1.2 original data : It is this version which is documented in the OCTOP booklet.

  • in ASCII raster format (zipped : 10 MB ; unzipped : 100 MB) ; values are float ; proper care should be taken when importing the real data of the ASCII file into an application, particularly when importing the data as integer values ;
    note : in this Version only areas with data (soil, land cover and temperature) are included, other areas are set to 0 ;
  • in native ESRI GRID format (zipped : 5 MB ; unzipped : 53 MB) ; the GRID has been produced from the ASCII raster format file ; values in the GRID remain float ;

Note regarding the Spatial Reference System for the original 1.2 data version :

is according to GISCO and is documented in the GISCO Database Manual, in Chapter 3 "Main characteristics of the GISCO reference database" under "Spatial Reference System"

  1. Jones R.J.A., Hiederer R., Rusco E., Montanarella L. Estimating organic carbon in the soils of Europe for policy support (2005) European Journal of Soil Science, 56 (5), pp. 655-671.

Information about the data: Soil Organic Carbon Content

Joint Research Centre - European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC)
ID 129502
Date - Time Tue, 05/26/2026 - 17:04
Name of User LOUIS BODIN
Organization Soufflet Négoce by Invivo
Type of Organization Private Company
-- Other
E-mail lbodin@invivo-group.com
Purpose Statistical analysis of soil organic carbon distribution across European regions.
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