Soil type

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Corine European soil database version 2

GIS data

Soil.zip, vector data, polygon

Zip file containing a personal geodatabase

soil.zip (ZIP archive)
33.18 MB Download file

Methodology

Soil - Background information from GISCO Database Manual

History of the development of the Soil Map of the EC

soil - background information.pdf (PDF document)
125.16 KB Download file

Additional information

Coordinate reference system

soil.prj (Octet Stream)
406 Bytes Download file

Additional information

Newer versions of the European Soil Database (ESDB) exist; these newer versions include an improvement of the spatial accuracy of the data set as well as expansion of its coverage into Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. These data, along with derived products, can be downloaded from http://eusoils.jrc.ec.europa.eu/data.html, hosted by the Land Resource Management Unit of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Further information can be obtained from

Produced maps and graphs

Soil map Map presentation of Corine European soil database version 2.

Publish date:: 05 Mar 2003
Temporal coverage:: 2006
Last upload:: 22 Aug 2006
Geographical coverage:: EU12, Andorra, Monaco, San Marino
Tags:: Natlan | DISMED | soil | desertification | geospatial data | vector data | Corine
Scale of the data set:: 1:1000000
Rights:: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency.
Methodology:: Due to a shift in the data visible from 1:1 000 000 the soil data should not be used in overlay analyses, but only for presentation purposes. Please visit this site for more information about Corine projects http://reports.eea.europa.eu/search_results?SearchTitle=CORINE
Source:: GISCO delivery 09-2000
Owners:: European Environment Agency