VBORIS 2020: Zonal Soil Benchmark Data for Kaiserslautern, Germany

Zonal soil benchmarks with descriptive features for benchmark plots in the city of Kaiserslautern, Germany. The data was published by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and has a reference date of January 1, 2020. It is available as a Web Map Service (WMS).

Use Cases

• Urban land-use planning based on zonal soil benchmark features.
• Environmental impact assessments based on descriptive soil plot data.
• Agricultural suitability modeling for the Kaiserslautern region based on soil benchmarks.

Strengths

• Data has a specific reference date of 01.01.2020, providing a temporal anchor.
• Spatial coverage is explicitly defined for the city of Kaiserslautern.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Time Range

Reference date 01.01.2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-24 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

City of Kaiserslautern, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany