LUCAS 2018 Soil Module
Presentation of dataset and results
This report accompanies the release of the soil dataset collected as part of the 2018 Land Use/Cover Area frame statistical Survey’ (generally referred to as LUCAS Soil). It presents an overview of the laboratory analysis data and provides a detailed description of the results for the European Union (EU) and the United Kingdom as it was still a Member State at the time of the survey. The report describes the spatial variability of soil properties by land cover (LC) class and a comparative analysis of the soil properties for NUTS 2 regions.
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 EU, addressing all major land cover types simultaneously, in a single sampling period (April – October).
For 2018, 27,069 locations were identified for soil sampling. A soil-related activity (i.e. assessing the type of erosion, organic soil check sample collection) was made at 19,345 locations (LUCAS Grid Points). After the removal of samples that could not be identified or were mislabelled or lost in transit, the LUCAS 2018 Soil Module dataset contains data for 18,984 locations.
As in the previous exercises, a common sampling procedure, single laboratory, and standard analytical methods were applied.
FERNANDEZ UGALDE Oihane;
SCARPA Simone;
ORGIAZZI Alberto;
PANAGOS Panagiotis;
VAN LIEDEKERKE Marc;
MARÉCHAL Anne;
JONES Arwyn;
2022-07-19
Publications Office of the European Union
JRC129926
978-92-76-54832-4 (online),
1831-9424 (online),
EUR 31144 EN,
OP KJ-NA-31-144-EN-N (online),
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC129926,
10.2760/215013 (online),
Additional supporting files
| File name | Description | File type | |
|---|
