Regional Soil Data

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This section provides links to websites from where soil related datasets at regional level could potentially be accessed and/or downloaded. According to INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe) principles, public users should be provided with easy access to datasets at European, National, Regional and local level. In this spirit, members of the European Soil Bureau Network and staff from JRC are jointly identifying relevant data sets in Europe and the modalities for accessing them. This effort is also relevant in the context of the establishment of the European Soil Data Center(ESDAC) at JRC. See also the Global Datasets and the National Datasets.
In case you host Soil Data/Maps/Applications in Regional level and you want to publish their links to the current page, please contact Panos Panagos.

Number of Regional Soil Datasets: 21

Country	Region	Organisation	Database	Database Description	Responsible
Belgium	Flanders - Vlaanderen	Support Centre GIS-Flanders	Soil Map of Flanders	Since 1999 a digital version of the soil maps is available for the entire Flemish Region. It is a digital reproduction of the analogue soil maps that have been mapped between 1947 and 1973, without actualisation. In Belgium, the soil maps are based on two classification methods. Both systems are described and interpreted for each agricultural region in an attached document. The classification resulted in more than 4500 unique soil types for the Flemish region. The thematic use of the soil map in GIS-environment gives a wide range of possibilities. But for visualisation purposes the classification codes have been simplified to 40 classes.	Laura D’heer
Belgium	Wallonie	Direction de l'Etat environnemental, Département de l'Etude du Milieu naturel et agricole, Direction générale opérationnelle Agriculture, Ressources naturelles et Environnement, Service Public de Wallonie	La Carte Numérique des Sols de Wallonie	This site refers to a map of the soil types of the Belgian Walloon region, and is only one map of a whole series of maps related to the land, such as land-use, subsoil, erosion etc.	Sig Dgarne
France	Rhône-Alpes	Sol Info Rhône-Alpes	IGCS Soil information systems of Rhône-Alps	The association of the Chambers of Agriculture of Rhone-Alps (SIRA: Sols Info Rhone-Alpes) created in February 2004 an Internet site for consulting the Cartographic Units and Typological Units of soils of IGCS (survey, management and protection of soils) program on Rhône-Alps area (http://www.rhone-alpes.chambagri.fr/sira/). The pedological data base IGCS_SIRA is at the 1/100 000 scale. Missing territories are being harmonized and will be available in a very near future.	Ahmed CHAFCHAFI
Germany	Bavaria	Bavarian Environment Agency	Soil Information System of Bavaria	The Soil Information System of Bavaria provides the public community several data sets related to soil science and soil protection. The data is presented as map sets in vector and raster formats including soild maps and soil functions maps, as well as point data, showing the locations of soil profiles, soil mapping points, and soil monitoring sites. Due to the requirements of data protection, the location of point data is concealed beyond a resolution of 300 meters. In addition to soil data, the system also contains information about other geoscience disciplines, such as geology, hydorgeology, and geohazards	Thomas Gülden
Germany	Lower Saxony	State Authority for Mining, Energy and Geology (LBEG)	Niedersächsisches Bodeninformationssystem NIBIS® (Soil Informationsystem Lower Saxony)	Soil information systems incorporate data and data evaluation methods using several conceptual, logical, and physical models. Working with soil information systems tends to be rather demanding for users, because they hardly can be expected to be familiar with all the scientific and technical aspects of the system. For that reason, a layer of supporting functions has been introduced into NIBIS. These functions enable users to identify, to query, and to select the system contents, as well as to visualize results obtained, or to use evaluation methods. This way, it can be assured that data and methods are used only within their limits and where their applicability, or significance, resp. have been established. The supporting functions are linked to soil data and methods via metadata, which is mainly grouped into two logical units. One unit explains system contents as to be interpreted by users, and one, closely related, describes system contents as to be interpreted by the supporting functions.	Dr. Hans-Joachim Heineke
Germany	North Rhine-Westphalia	North Rhine-Westphalia State Environment Agency	Soil Information System North Rhine-Westphalia	The information system provides data, methodology and information especially on soil contaminants with a view to practical soil protection in NRW. Central module is the Information System on Soil Contamination (FIS StoBo). Its prior objective is to offer an easy access to existing data and information. The system works on a database of about 60.000 soil sample analyses with particular regard to heavy metals and persistent organic pollutants. Attended parameters influencing the availability are attached in some cases. The data are derived from several different investigations resulting in a heterogeneous data background, requiring specific tools for carrying out defined requests. Results can be visualized via tables or maps. Individual further processing is possible after downloading the data. Limitations in spatial accuracy are implemented due to restrictions by data protection.	Jörg Leisner-Saaber
Germany	Saxony	Saxon State Agency for Environment and Geology	Digital concept soil map (BK-konz) of Saxony, Germany	The BK-konz is a general map based on older data. It was derived and combined from agricultural and forestrial site maps. The units from the BK-konz represent contours of regional agricultural and forestrial location types. The assignment of the pedological contents was carried out by expert knowledge. The encoding was essentially on the basis of the German soil mapping instructions (4th edition, Hanover 1994). The map is provided for the whole Saxony in the official topographical map sheet 1 : 25,000 for the free download. The data format is E00 from ESRI, readable also with current ESRI products. In addition, the card is open to the overview in form of an interactive card for the whole Saxony.	Heilmann Heiner
Germany	Saxony-Anhalt	Landesamt für Geologie und Bergwesen (LAGB)	Soil Information System of Saxony-Anhalt	The soil information system contains digital soil profile date and maps. The maps are divided in soil and thematic maps. The thematic maps describe soil functions and soil properties by spatial data. The spatial data are developed by statistic analysis of the digital soil profile information. The maps are available as vector or grid. Users con order the digital maps and spatial data at the LAGB	Dr. Klaus-Jörg Hartmann
Germany	Schleswig - Holstein	Landesamt für Natur und Umwelt des Landes Schleswig-Holstein	Environmental report of Schleswig-Holstein: soil information system	The Soil Information system of Schleswig-Holstein (BODIS) contains information about general aspects of soil conservation in Schleswig-Holstein. The part “FIS-Boden” (scientific information system “soil”) informs about projects concerning e. g. soil pollution, surveying and mapping or long-term monitoring of physical and biological soil properties. It informs about which chemical, physical or general soil parameters, biological or agricultural characteristics are part of the different research programmes, the status quo of these programmes and where to get more information. Moreover the part “Altlasteninformationssystem” (scientific information system “contaminated sites”) informs about the status quo of the register of contaminated sites in Schleswig-Holstein.	Dr. Nicole Bädjer
Italy	Abruzzo	Servizio per l'Informazione Territoriale e la Telematica	Carta dei Suoli e dei Paesaggi d Abruzzo scala 1:250000	Carta dei Suoli e dei Paesaggi d Abruzzo scala 1:250000 realizzata da ARSSA Abruzzo	Servizio per l'Informazione Territoriale e la Telematica
Italy	Basilicata	Basilicata	La carta pedologica generale: 1:250.000	La realizzazione della carta pedologica della Regione Basilicata è stata finalizzata alla costituzione di una banca dati georeferenziata sui suoli regionali, dalla quale poter ottenere in qualsiasi momento le informazioni desiderate in varia forma, numerica o cartografica. La scala indicata (1:250.000) costituisce un'indicazione del livello di generalizzazione del dato, dell'intensità del rilevamento condotto e, quindi, dei limiti d'uso dell'informazione per scopi applicativi. Il grande vantaggio di questa impostazione è costituito dalla possibilità di aggiornamento e incremento continui della base dati, e quindi di miglioramento progressivo delle informazioni disponibili. Questo consente, in qualsiasi momento, nuove edizioni dei prodotti di divulgazione dei dati, quando sia intervenuto un incremento di conoscenze anche soltanto su una porzione limitata di territorio	Luigi Viviano
Italy	Calabria	ARSSA	carta dei suoli in scala 1:250.000	Il progetto regionale prevede, oltre alla carta dei suoli in scala 1:250.000, una serie di approfondimenti tematici su aspetti agroambientali di interesse rilevante. Sulla base della carta dei suoli è già stata pubblicata la Carta della vulnerabilità da nitrati di origine agricola e seguiranno la Carta del rischio di erosione, la Carta dei fabbisogni irrigui, la Carta dell'attitudine dei suoli allo spargimento delle acque reflue dei frantoi oleari.	Francesco Longo
Italy	Emilia-Romagna	Geological, Seismic and Soil Survey Organisation	I suoli dell’Emilia-Romagna (The soils of the Emilia-Romagna Region, Italy)	The website (in Italian) is based on Google Earth technology and information on soil at different scales are available. The Google Earth map and the 3D models help to understand the geography of the soil information. With a simple click in the map you can open a "balloons" containing the basic info about the selected soil. The balloon it is a gate facing the world of the soil information of the Emilia Romagna through web links and pictures. The maps are available for the Google Earth application and for the Google Earth plug-in inside a web browser (Firefox, Explorer, Safari, etc.) at the scales 1:1.000.000, 1:500.000, and 1:250.000 for the whole region, 1:50.000 for the plain and 1:10.000 for some experimental farms. Thematic maps are also available.	Francesco Malucelli
Italy	Emilia-Romagna	Geological, Seismic and Soil Survey	Emilia-Romagna Geological and Soil Map Web Site	This information system provides the public with several data sets relating to the Emilia-Romagna region, namely geological maps to 1:50.000 and 1:10.000, the soil map to 1:50.000 and a geognostic database. It is also possible to consult point and linear data, for example typical elements of geological maps (geological and geophysical monitoring, marker beds, outcrop points, depositional environments and lithologies), while in relation to soil levels, terrain analysis sites and soil monitoring, sites can be consulted.	Paola Tarocco, Alberto Martini
Italy	Emilia-Romagna	Agro-food System Development Service - Geological, Seismic and Soil Survey	Soil Typologica Unit Catalogue of Emilia-Romagna plain	Emilia Romagna regional authority is committed to a number of soil map projects and the application of the latter to planning and agro-environmental management of the territory. The soil typological unit catalogue is an inventory of the main soil types of the Emilia-Romagna alluvial plain. The most important soil characteristics and suggestions for agroforest management are provided in chart form.	Paola Tarocco
Italy	Friuli Venezia Giulia	ERSA	Maps at scale 1:500.000 and at scale 1:50.000-1:100.000	L’informazione pedologica è disponibile a livello di riconoscimento (alla scala 1:500.000) e di dettaglio (1:50.000-1:100.000) ed è consultabile a partire dalle Carte dei suoli organizzate per ambito provinciale.
Italy	Lombardy	ERSAF - Ente Regionale per i Servizi all’Agricoltura e alle Foreste	Soil Information System of Lombardy	The Territorial Information System of Lombardy Region provides access to geospatial data related to general interest objectives and specific territorial information. It includes the Soil Information System, a means to discover, visualize and evaluate useful information in order to improve the territorial planning. It provides detailed soil data about: landscape, morphology, geographic distribution, chemical-physical characteristics, taxonomic classification.	Stefano Brenna
Italy	Lombardy	ERSAF - Ente Regionale per i Servizi all’Agricoltura e alle Foreste	The Soils of Lombardy	A georeferenced soil database at scale 1.250k, covering the whole Lombardy (25.000 kmq), has been carried out in the framework of a national project (Italian Soil Map at scale 1.250k - Ministry of Agriculture) and according to the European Manual of Procedures (version 1.0, 1998); the soil database represents the "reference base", both for more detailed soil survey activities and applications of soil information at local level and for generalisation at smaller scales for national and European level purposes.	Stefano Brenna
Italy	Piemonte	Istituto Per le Piante da legno e l’ambiente Ipla s.p.a	I suoli del Piemonte (The soils of Piemonte)	“I suoli del Piemonte” is the Regione Piemonte official web portal about soil information. It is the “public” component of the Regional Soil Information System and it is oriented to release soil information to all users interested in land classification. This service allows the access to regional soil maps at 1/250.000 and 1/50.000 scale and related Soil Mapping and Typological Units, to regional “Agro-Landscape map” at 1/250.000 scale and to regional topsoil analysis archive. Soil maps are published in vector format using a cartographic web service that permit geographic or thematic queries and that is linked to the regional Soil Mapping Units and soil Typological Units Archive. Soil maps are also available in raster (.pdf) format for downloading, as well as Soil Mapping Units and soil Typological Units monographic file.	Mauro Piazzi
Italy	Tuscany	Servizio Geologico della Regione Toscana	Carta dei suoli	The “Carta dei Suoli d’Italia a scala 1:250.000”, financed from the Ministry for the Agricultural Political to the inner interregional program "Agriculture and Quality" measure 5, has set offed in 1999. The necessity to overwhelm such gap has been subsequently marked to priority European territorial level like in order facing the important problem of the defense of the ground and of its consequences on the political it acclimatizes them European. The Communication of the Commission to European Parliament "COM(2002)179" formally represents the taken one of conscience of such problem.	Domenico Morini
Italy	Veneto	ARPAV Environment Protection Agency of the Veneto Region	Soil Map of Veneto	The soil map of Veneto Region at 1:250.000 scale has been worked out by ARPAV Regional Soil Observatory between the years 2000 and 2005, in the framework of a national project. It has the purpose to provide a first overview on regional soils at a reconaissance scale, setting the already acquired soil information in a wider framework. The Observatory has been operating since 1996, working out soil surveys at different scales, and collecting soil data in a regional soil database.	Paolo Giandon

Actually, this part will "establish" a network of Sites which are providing Regional Soil Data (The same is valid for the National Soil Datasets) . The JRC initiated this development and asks you more information. In case you own or process Regional Soil Data, you are invited to fill in the attached form and send it to Panos Panagos.

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