DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14553510
title: Spatiotemporal prediction of soil organic carbon density (SOCD) for pan-Europe (2000-2022) in 3D+T

description: Sub-dataset: SOCD mean, 2016–2020


Disclaimer


This is the first release of pan-EU predictions of soil health indicators (the Soil Health Data Cube). Use for testing purposes only. A publication describing methods used has been submitted to PeerJ and is in review. Funded by the European Union. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or European Commision. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them. The data is provided "as is". AI4SoilHealth project consortium and its suppliers and licensors hereby disclaim all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Neither AI4SoilHealth project Consortium nor its suppliers and licensors, makes any warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.


Description


This dataset covers pan-European areas, including Ukraine, the UK, and Turkey. This data cube could be used for applications such as soil property mapping and comprehensive soil health assessment across Europe. The dataset spans four depth ranges and multiple time periods, providing information for studies on soil organic carbon stock and dynamics.


This dataset is part of the Spatiotemporal prediction of soil organic carbon density for Europe (2000-2022) in 3D+T dataset. Check the related identifiers section below to access other parts of the dataset.


This data set includes:



	
Soil Organic Carbon Density (SOCD) (2000-2022, 4-year intervals):
        This data includes mean, p975, and p025 SOCD maps for four depth ranges (0-20cm, 20-50cm, 50-100cm, and 100-200cm) in kg/m3 (scaled 10x). 
	
Organic carbon content based on dry combustion weight percentage (WPCT) (2000-2022, 4-year intervals):
        This data includes mean, p975, and p025 WPCT maps for four depth ranges (0-20cm, 20-50cm, 50-100cm, and 100-200cm) in percentage (scaled 10x). 



Related identifiers



	
SOCD mean: 2000-2004 2004-2008 2008-2012 2012-2016 2016-2020 2020-2022 
	
SOCD p025: 2000-2004 2004-2008 2008-2012 2012-2016 2016-2020 2020-2022 
	
SOCD p975:  2000-2004 2004-2008 2008-2012 2012-2016 2016-2020 2020-2022 



Data Details



	
Time period: 2000–2022, in 4-year intervals (last period covers 2020–2022).
	
Type of data: Spatiotemporal soil organic carbon data cube, with depth ranges and weighted percentage data for soil carbon assessments.
	
How the data was collected or derived: The data was derived using machine learning models.
	
Statistical methods used: Quantile Random Forest
	
Limitations or exclusions in the data: The dataset does not include data for Svalbard. 
	
Coordinate reference system: EPSG:3035
	
Bounding box (Xmin, Ymin, Xmax, Ymax): (900,000, 899,000, 7,401,000, 5,501,000)
	
Spatial resolution: 30m
	
Image size: 216,700P x 153,400L
	
File format: Cloud Optimized Geotiff (COG) format.



Support


If you discover a bug, artifact, or inconsistency, or if you have a question please raise a GitHub issue: GitLab Issues (tbc)


Name convention


To ensure consistency and ease of use across and within the projects, we follow the standard Ai4SoilHealth and Open-Earth-Monitor file-naming convention. The convention works with 10 fields that describe important properties of the data. In this way users can search files, prepare data analysis etc, without needing to open files. The fields are:



	
generic variable name: oc = organic carbon
	
variable procedure combination: iso.10694.1995.mg.cm3 = ISO method 10694:1995, with values in mg/cm3 for SOCD | iso.10694.1995.wpct = ISO method 10694:1995, with values in weighted percentage of organic carbon content.
	
Position in the probability distribution/variable type: m = mean | p975 = percentile 97.5 | p025 = percentile 2.5
	
Spatial support: 30m
	
Depth reference: b0cm..20cm = depth range from 0 to 20cm
	
Time reference begin time: 20000101 = 2000-01-01
	
Time reference end time: 20041231 = 2004-12-31
	
Bounding box: eu = pan-Europe
	
EPSG code: epsg.3035
	
Version code: v20240804 = version from 2024-08-04