VBORIS 2014: Zonal Soil Benchmarks for Rhineland-Palatinate

Zonal soil benchmarks with descriptive features of soil benchmark plots, with a cut-off date of 01.01.2014. The data covers the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis district, Frankenthal (Palatinate), and Speyer in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is provided by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie (Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy) and is accessible via a WMS (Web Map Service).

Use Cases

• Map soil quality and characteristics for agricultural planning based on zonal benchmarks.
• Analyze regional soil patterns for environmental studies based on descriptive plot features.
• Support land management decisions in the Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis district based on standardized soil data.

Strengths

• Data is provided by the authoritative Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie.
• The dataset has a specific geographic scope covering three distinct areas in Rhineland-Palatinate.
• The data has a defined temporal snapshot with a cut-off date of 01.01.2014.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the specific districts covered.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Time Range

Snapshot as of 01.01.2014

Freshness

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

Geography

Rhein-Pfalz-Kreis district, Frankenthal (Palatinate), and Speyer in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany