VBORIS 2020: Zonal Soil Benchmarks for Trier-Saarburg District

Zonal soil benchmarks with descriptive features for agricultural plots in the Trier-Saarburg district of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, as of a cut-off date of 01.01.2020. The dataset is provided by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and was last updated in the platform on 2026-03-24. Data is available via the WMS (Web Map Service) format.

Use Cases

• Map soil property zones for precision agriculture based on the described benchmark plots.
• Analyze land suitability for specific crops based on zonal soil features.
• Support regional agricultural policy and planning with geospatial soil data for the Trier-Saarburg district.

Strengths

• Data is geospatially referenced for the specific district of Trier-Saarburg.
• Provides a defined temporal snapshot with a cut-off date of 01.01.2020.
• Sourced from a national authoritative agency, the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie.

Limitations

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

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 Trier-Saarburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany