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Soil data of various scales is needed for good management of agricultural and environmental resources. On the European level soil information is used for crop monitoring, yield forecasting, agricultural planning, feasibility studies for rural development, natural hazards forecasting, such as floods and landslides or slowly acting processes such as erosion, acidification and other types of chemical, biological and physical degradation of soils. However, no soil database for the European Union to support these goals had existed before the late eighties. The strong need for policy support has speeded up the database compilation and resulted in the first version of the Soil Geographical Database of Eurasia at scale 1:1 million (SGDBE1M). Despite its limitations, SGDBE1M is still among the few databases which serve as a flagship in the development of the small scale spatial databases in Europe. The version 2.0 of SGDBE1M was published recently, in 2004. The refinement of the database and the extension of its geographic coverage to Eurasia and the Mediterranean Africa are in preparation (ESB 2004)
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Dobos, E., Daroussin, J., Montanarella, L. (2007). A Quantitative Procedure for Building Physiographic Units for the European SOTER Database. In: Peckham, R.J., Jordan, G. (eds) Digital Terrain Modelling. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36731-4_10
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