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  • Topic / Tool | Last updated: 24 Nov 2025
Soil Monitoring

EUSO supports the development of an operational EU-Wide Soil Monitoring System, through the LUCAS Soil Module.

Soil Observatory

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  • Soils host 59% of life on earth and delivers up to €11 trillion in ecosystem value every year!
  • The EU loses over 50 billion euros annually due to degradation - but restoring it could yield 6x the return!
  • 62% of EU soils show signs of degradation and the full extent may be even worse!
  • Globally soils store more carbon than all plants and the atmosphere - agricultural topsoils in the EU store 9.3 billion tonnes of organic carbon but they have lost almost 1% in the last decade!
  • Europe paves over 800 km2 of soil every year - that’s 6 San Siro stadiums lost daily to urban expansion!
  • 95% of the world’s food is produced by soil and it supplies 98% of EU daily calories.

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LUCAS 2027

This will be the reference page for Memeber State for all the things related to the land use/cover area frame statistical survey (LUCAS) in 2027.

LUCAS 2015 TOPSOIL data

Data from the 2015 LUCAS campaign soil component containing soil properties data (clay, silt and sand content, coarse fragments, pH (CaCl2 and H2O), organic…

LUCAS 2018 Soil Module

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…

EU Soil Observatory Dashboard

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