Description
Soil erosion control is a key ecosystem service delivered by terrestrial ecosystems, mainly through vegetation cover. Two indicators are used to quantify capacity and use of the service. A first dimensionless indicator measures the capacity of ecosystems to avoid soil erosion by assigning values ranging from 0 to 1 at pixel level, covering the EU-28 territory for the year
2010. A second indicator measures how much soil is retained by vegetation based on the difference between soil erosion in presence of vegetation and soil erosion in absence of vegetation. The quantification is based on an application of the RUSLE model.
Contact
Contributors
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- Joachim Maes
How to cite
Maes, Joachim (2010): Soil erosion control. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/4ccdbbf0-fc7c-4fd7-bd8b-f11a06f5df0b
Keywords
ecosystem services erosion soil
Data access
This compressed zipfile SEC.zip contains data at 100 m resolution assessed for the year 2010. SEC, or the capacity to avoid soil erosion is a dimensionless value between 0 and 10.
This compressed zipfile ASE.zip contains data at 100 m resolution assessed for the year 2010. ASE or avoided soil erosion is expressed in tonne soil retained per year.
Publications
Spatial coverage
Type | Value |
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GML | <gml:Polygon xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2"> <gml:exterior> <gml:LinearRing> <gml:posList>-11.5 81.4 43.2 81.4 43.2 35.3 -11.5 35.3 -11.5 81.4</gml:posList> </gml:LinearRing> </gml:exterior></gml:Polygon> |
WKT | POLYGON ((-11.5 81.4, 43.2 81.4, 43.2 35.3, -11.5 35.3, -11.5 81.4)) |
Temporal coverage
From date | To date |
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2010-01-01 | 2010-01-01 |
Lineage information
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Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-03-26
- Modified date
- 2021-03-26
- Issued date
- 2010-07-26
- Landing page
- http://biodiversity.europa.eu/maes
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Economy and finance, Environment, Regions and cities, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/4ccdbbf0-fc7c-4fd7-bd8b-f11a06f5df0b
- Popularity
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