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  • COLLECTIONS ESDAC
  • SCIENCE AREAS Environment and climate change
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Mercury content in the European Union topsoil

Topsoil Hg concentrations (μg kg−1) across 26 EU countries estimated by deep neural network – regression kriging.The assessment is based on 21591 LUCAS samples (0-20cm) from 26 European Union countries.

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Land degradation in global arable lands

Analysis of the spatial footprint of the multiple forms of land degradation in global arable lands. This includes 5 land degradation processes: aridity, soil erosion, vegetation decline, soil salinization and soil organic carbon decline. Data are at global sca...

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Global Applications of Soil Erosion Modelling Tracker

Global Applications of Soil Erosion Modelling Tracker (GASEMT) includes 3030 individual modelling records from 126 countries, encompassing all continents. GASEMT includes peer-reviewed research literature on soil-erosion modelling published between 1994 and 20...

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European Soil Database v2.0 (vector and attribute data)

This database (2004) is the only harmonized soil database for Europe, extending also to Eurasia. It contains a soil geographical database SGDBE (polygons) to which a number of essential soil attributes are attached, and an associate database PTRDB, with attrib...

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Groundwater Resources maps of Europe

GIS Maps related to Groundwater resources in Europe, covering 3 themes: Inventory of aquifers; Hydrogeology of aquifers; Groundwater abstraction; for 9 European countries (Belgium, Federal Republic of Germany, Denmark, France, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Nethe...

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Potential threats to soil biodiversity in Europe

Dataset that contains 3 GIS maps showing Potential threats to soil biodiversity in Europe (for soil microorganisms, for fauna,forbiological functions), along with 13 input layers (habitat fragmentation, climate change, soil erosion, etc.); resolution 500m.

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Soil erosion by wind

This dataset consists of various elements related to soil erosion by wind: 1) Soil loss by wind erosion in European agricultural soils (2016); 1km resolution, 2) Land susceptibility to wind erosion (2014), 500m resolution, 3) Wind erosion susceptibility of Eu...

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Google Earth Files

Google Earth Files (with ".kmz" extension) that correspond to 73 attribute maps derived from the European Soil Database v2 (ESDB v2) for EU27 countries.

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Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas Maps

Dataset (2016) containing 2 GIS maps from the Global Soil Biodiversity Atlas: 1) the Soil Biodiversity map showing a simple index describing the potential level of diversity living in soils (with the use of two other datasets: distribution of microbial soil c...

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Global Rainfall Erosivity

Rainfall erosivity dataset (2017) is one of the input layers when calculating the Revised Universal Soil Loss Equation (RUSLE) model, which is the most frequently used model for soil erosion risk estimation; for the whole World; R-factor map at resolutions of...

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iSOIL project (Interactions between soil related sciences)

Data from the FP7 iSOIL research projectdealing with new technologies for assessing soil properties along depth accurately and with high resolution by combining existing sensors as well as exploring emerging technologies (mainly geophysical); data available fo...

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Soil Organic Carbon - Saturation Capacity in Europe

This dataset (map) (2016) shows the Soil Organic Carbon (SOC) saturation capacity, expressed as the ratio between the actual and the potential SOC stock in each pixel. Values close to 0 indicate a great potential of soil to store more carbon.

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Maps of indicators of soil hydraulic properties for Europe

Soil hydraulic properties maps (2016) for Europe: for Water retention of topsoil: saturated water content (cm3/cm3), water content at field capacity (cm3/cm3), water content at wilting point (cm3/cm3); for Hydraulic conductivity of topsoil: saturated hydraul...

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European Soil Database v2 Raster Library 1kmx1km

This database (2006) is a set of raster data sets that have been derived from the European soil Database v2, for most attributes. The values for the attributes are categorized (non-continuous). These rasters are an interpretation of the data that are contained...