European Soil Data Centre - LUCAS 2015 Topsoil Laboratory Analysis

The LUCAS Soil Module is the only mechanism that currently provides a harmonised and regular collection of soil data for the entire territory of the European Union (EU), addressing all major land cover types simultaneously, in a single sampling period (generally April – October). In 2015, the survey was carried out for all twenty-eight EU MS. Of the locations sampled in 2009 and 2012, 90% were maintained. The remaining 10% were substituted by new locations, including new points at altitudes above 1,000 m, which were out of scope of the LUCAS 2009 and LUCAS 2012 surveys. Overall, 27,069 locations were selected for the soil sampling of LUCAS 2015, of which 22,631 were collected in the EU-28, with a further 1,271 samples being collected from other countries. After the removal of samples that could not be identified or mislabelled, the LUCAS 2015 Soil dataset contains 21,859 unique records. As in the previous exercises, a common sampling procedure, single laboratory, standard analytical methods were applied. Additional soil parameters that were collected from all LUCAS field points primarily to support soil erosion modelling (e.g. signs of ploughing, presence of crop residues, percentage of stones) are not presented here. The results for Switzerland and Western Balkan Countries will be presented separately. Seperate reports describe the dataset in detail and present an assessment of changes in soil properties between 2009 and 2015.

JONES Arwyn;  FERNANDEZ UGALDE Oihane;  SCARPA Simone;  PANAGOS Panagiotis;  HIEDERER Roland;  VAN LIEDEKERKE Marc;  TOTH Gergely;  HERMANN Tamas; 

2022-08-18

European Commission

JRC121610

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC121610,