VBORIS 2018: Zonal Soil Benchmarks for Bitburg-Prüm, Germany

Zonal soil benchmarks with descriptive features for the Bitburg-Prüm district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. The data was published by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and has a cut-off date of January 1, 2018. It is served via a Web Map Service (WMS) protocol.

Use Cases

• Map soil characteristics for agricultural planning based on zonal benchmark plots.
• Analyze regional soil properties for environmental studies based on descriptive plot features.
• Integrate soil benchmark data into geographic information systems for land management.

Strengths

• Data is provided by a national mapping and geodesy authority (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie).
• Has a specific geographic focus on the Bitburg-Prüm district.
• Features a defined temporal cut-off date (01.01.2018).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data freshness should be verified as the cut-off date is from 2018.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Time Range

Cut-off date 01.01.2018

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-26 00:00:00; freshness should be verified

Geography

Bitburg-Prüm district, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany