DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13993235
title: SERENA EJPSOIL BE Flanders EROSION SOILLOSS cookbook

description: The internal EJP SOIL project SERENA contributed to the evaluation of soil multifunctionality aiming at providing assessment tools for land planning and soil policies at different scales. By co-working with relevant stakeholders, the project provided co-developed indicators and associated cookbooks to assess and map them, to report both on soil degradation, soil-based ecosystem services and their bundles, under actual conditions and for climate and land-use changes, at the regional, national, and European scales.

The dataset (5m resolution) was mainly produced to test the methodology of the SERENA soil erosion cookbook of the European SERENA EJP SOIL project. The data was prepared according to the methodology of SERENA soil erosion cookbook. The objective of SERENA project was to develop methods to calculate and map soil-based ecosystem services and soil threats. Soil loss was used as an indicator for soil erosion. For Belgium, the application was carried out at regional scale for the Flanders region. To create the soil erosion map, RULSE modelling was done according to the SERENA cookbook using several publicly available datasets. The following auxiliary data was used: K-Factor, Land-Cover Map, Long-term 30 yr averaged monthly rainfall, LS-Factor given by Panagos et al. (2015). The dataset will be mostly useful as a reference result for actors that want to learn to implement the part of the soil erosion cookbook of SERENA dealing with the creation of an erosion map. It has limited use as an erosion map for Flanders because a more detailed and accurate map exists for Flanders based on regional covariates.

This dataset is originally hosted at DOV (https://www.dov.vlaanderen.be/), for the most up to date version of the dataset access the data from the DOV repository through the DOV services. The original metdata is accesible through the DOV metadata catalog: SERENA EJPSOIL BE Flanders EROSION SOILLOSS cookbook

The DOV services:



WMS ( OGC:WMS-1.3.0-http-get-map ) 

WCS ( OGC:WCS )
description: The data are derived from the calculation of indicators based on a standard methodology established as part of the EJP Soil SERENA programme. Please keep in mind that:

· It is the result of a modelling exercise and does not necessarily reflect reality.

· Despite the efforts made to provide reliable data, the results may contain inconsistencies, depending in particular on the raw data available and level of accuracy of the techniques chosen and their prior knowledge.

· It is necessary to consider how the results have been obtained in order to decide on their relevance in relation to the intended purpose of reuse.

· These results are interesting from a scientific point of view, but their use for environmental management and policy issues should be done keeping the previous aspects in mind and complementing when necessary the provided results with the best available data.

Finally, it is the responsibility of the users of this information to decide whether it is appropriate to use these data and whether the data meet their needs. The authors of this resource can in no way be held responsible for the results obtained from the use of this data.