VBORIS 2020: Zonal Soil Benchmarks for Bernkastel-Wittlich District

Rhineland-Palatinate soil benchmark data for the district of Bernkastel-Wittlich, with descriptive features of benchmark plots. The dataset was published by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and has a cut-off date of 01.01.2020.

Use Cases

• Agricultural zoning analysis based on soil benchmark features.
• Soil quality assessment for land-use planning based on descriptive plot data.
• Environmental monitoring of soil characteristics in Rhineland-Palatinate.

Strengths

• Data is georeferenced and served via WMS, suggesting integration with GIS tools.
• Specific cut-off date of 01.01.2020 provides a clear temporal snapshot.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Time Range

Cut-off date 01.01.2020

Freshness

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

Geography

District of Bernkastel-Wittlich, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany