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More Information about EuDASM: Panagos, P., Jones, A., Bosco, C., Senthil Kumar P.S. European digital archive on soil maps (EuDASM): preserving important soil data for public free access.
International Journal of Digital Earth (2011), 4 (5), pp. 434-443. DOI:10.1080/17538947.2011.596580
You can download the Article in Press for your documentation.

A collection of scanned soil maps is available. The immediate objective is to transfer soil information into digital format, with the maximum resolution possible, to preserve the information of paper maps that are vulnerable to deterioration. Find below the list of countries and the number of maps. Click on the country name and the List of Soil Maps will be dispayed. The countries are sorted in an alphabetical order. You may wish to group the countries by Continent. Some of the digitised maps are georeferenced and you are invited to download the TIFF files.

Digital Archive of Soil Maps - Continent Coverages: 5, Number of Maps: 384

African continental coverage maps, 151
Asian continental coverage maps, 67
Central America - Continental Coverage, 4
Europe - Continental coverage, 96
South American - continental Coverage, 66

Digital Archive of Soil Maps - Number of Countries: 141, Number of Maps: 5394

Afghanistan, 105
Algeria, 25
Angola, 12
Argentina, 19
Austria, 8
Azerbaijan, 3
Bahamas, 2
Bangladesh, 31
Belarus, 8
Belgium, 19
Belize, 2
Benin, 16
Bolivia, 11
Botswana, 51
Brazil, 320
Bulgaria, 8
Burkina Faso, 38
Burundi, 3
Cambodia, 1
Cameroon, 64
Canada, 65
Cape Verde, 10
Central African Republic, 13
Chad , 74
Chile, 34
China, 22
Colombia, 130
Comoros, 4
Congo , 10
Costa Rica, 13
Croatia, 6
Cuba, 29
Cyprus, 17
Czech Republic, 12
Denmark, 7
Dominican Republic, 5
Ecuador, 104
Egypt, 75
El Salvador, 8
Estonia, 1
Ethiopia, 49
Finland, 25
France, 32
French Guiana, 5
Gabon, 14
Gambia, 22
Georgia, 2
Germany, 273
Ghana, 76
Greece, 8
Guadeloupe, 3
Guatemala, 12
Guinea, 33
Guyana, 31
Honduras, 6
Hungary, 63
Iceland, 1
India, 87
Indonesia, 84
Iran, 78
Iraq, 22
Ireland, 13
Israel, 16
Italy, 77
Ivory Coast (Cote D'Ivoire), 39
Jamaica, 1
Japan, 47
Kazakhstan, 6
Kenya, 339
Korea, 13
Latvia, 1
Lebanon, 27
Lesotho, 16
Liberia, 4
Libya, 19
Luxembourg, 4
Madagascar, 41
Malawi, 10
Malaysia, 70
Mali, 34
Malta, 1
Mauritania, 16
Mauritius, 3
Mexico, 48
Moldova, 1
Mongolia, 1
Morocco, 23
Mozambique, 56
Namibia, 6
Netherlands, 351
Nicaragua, 15
Niger, 23
Nigeria, 180
Norway, 19
Oceania islands, 37
Pakistan, 12
Panama, 1
Papua New Guinea, 34
Paraguay, 6
Peru, 49
Philippines, 14
Poland, 21
Portugal, 33
Puerto Rico, 1
Reunion (French), 2
Romania, 22
Russian Federation, 17
Rwanda, 13
Saint Helena, 9
Senegal, 20
Serbia, 3
Seychelles, 4
Sierra Leone, 21
Slovakia, 8
Somalia, 22
South Africa, 69
Spain, 47
Sri Lanka, 46
Sudan, 30
Suriname, 115
Swaziland, 19
Sweden, 9
Switzerland, 9
Syria, 16
Taiwan, 12
Tanzania , 101
Thailand, 99
Togo, 41
Tunisia, 26
Turkey, 19
Uganda, 14
Ukraine, 3
United Kingdom, 108
United States of America, 240
Uruguay, 18
Uzbekistan, 1
Venezuela, 18
Vietnam, 25
Zaire, 6
Zambia, 60
Zimbabwe, 63

For further information or technical problems on the Digital Archive of Soil Maps , please contact Panos Panagos.

 

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