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Coarse fragements (%) content in topsoil modelled by Multivariate Additive Regression Splines

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In southern Europe, the percentage of coarse fragments is mostly higher than in northern Europe

Ballabio C., Panagos P., Montanarella L. Mapping topsoil physical properties at European scale using the LUCAS database (2016) Geoderma, 261 , pp. 110-123.

Soil
  • Cyprus
  • Portugal
  • Spain
  • Malta
  • Denmark
  • United Kingdom
  • Sweden
  • Netherlands
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Germany
  • Luxembourg
  • Ireland
  • France
  • Slovakia
  • Czechia
  • Italy
  • Slovenia
  • Croatia
  • Greece
  • Estonia
  • Latvia
  • Lithuania
  • Finland
  • Hungary
  • Bulgaria
  • Poland
  • Romania
European Environment Agency, Joint Research Centre (JRC)European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC)

Resolution: 500m
Geographical Coverage: European Union 
Input data: LUCAS 2009 Topsoil 20,000 sample point data
Model: Multivariate Additive Regression Splines (MARS)