Data description

Digital Soil Map of Sweden

Last changed: 25 October 2024

Digital Soil Map of Sweden is a publicly available (CC-BY licence) digital map product that provides information on various soil properties in the topsoil (the top 2 dm of the soil layer) of farmland. The product consists of several map layers. These are estimated soil clay, sand and silt contents in % and USDA/FAO texture class (see SoilTextureTriangle on Wikipedia).

The map has a spatial resolution of 50 m × 50 m and covers virtually all arable land in southern Sweden, up to and including Gävleborg County. Areas classified as organic soils in SGU's Quaternary Geological Map and agricultural blocks classified as wetlands in the Swedish Board of Agriculture's block database from 2013 have not been mapped, but are available as a separate map layer to mark their extent.

The digital arable land map was developed by the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Sweden (SGU). SGU and the Swedish National Space Agency funded the development work, while the Swedish Board of Agriculture and Lantmäteriet contributed data. Hushållningssällskapet also participated in the work.

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The map can be downloaded from the Geological Survey of Sweden: Lerhaltskartan - digital åkermarkskarta.

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Contact

Mats Söderström

Metadata

Funding agency SLU, the Swedish Geological Survey, the Swedish National Space Board, the Swedish Board of Agriculture, Lantmäteriet and Hushållningssällskapet.
Keywords field, arable land, soil properties, digital soil mapping, soil mapping, topsoil, clay content, geodata
Data citation

Piikki, K., Söderström, M. 2019. Digital soil mapping of arable land in Sweden – Validation of performance at multiple scales. Geoderma, 352, 342–350. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoderma.2017.10.049
File format GeoTiff
Start date 2016-01-01
Frequency of update Irregularly
Limitations with regard to usage

To be assessed on a case-by-case basis according to the spatial resolution and attribute accuracy needs of the application.
Subject area
  • Soil properties and soil chemistry
Habitat type
  • Agricultural landscapes
Swedish environmental objectives
  • A varied agricultural landscape
  • Zero eutrophication
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National soil type mapping of topsoil in Swedish arable land
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