Corine European soil database version 2 provides harmonized soil unit information for Europe. The soil units were digitized at a scale of 1:1,000,000 during the CORINE project, incorporating national archives and verified by country experts. The European Environment Agency provided the summary description.
Use Cases
- Map soil type distributions across Europe based on harmonized soil units.
- Analyze cross-border soil classification consistency based on expert verification.
- Model agricultural or environmental processes using standardized European soil data.
- Integrate soil data with other land cover or environmental datasets for regional analysis.
Strengths
- Data is harmonized across national borders through expert verification.
- Provides soil information at a continental scale of 1:1,000,000.
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Row count and data size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- European Environment Agency (summary), SCIOPS (organization).
- Collection Method
- Digitized from soil units during the CORINE project, supplemented by national archives and verified by country experts.
- Geography
- Europe