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Agricultural Soil Map of Austria - Soil Depth

Soil depth refers to the depth of unconsolidated soil layers and is restricted in vertical extent by the occurrence of solid rock, solidified or hardened layers, or a predominant coarse fraction. The Agricultural Soil Map of Austria distinguishes a total of six classes, three primary and three secondary classes. The primary classes comprise "shallow" (<30cm), "medium" (30cm - 70cm), and "deep" (>70cm), while the secondary classes include the transition classes "shallow to medium," "medium to deep," and "highly variable." Soil depth as distinguished in this map refers to the extent to which a manually-operated soil drill (“Pürckhauer”) can be driven into the soil. This should not be confused with the soil depth to which root growth is possible known as the "effective depth" or "physiological depth". Typically, physiological depth extends beyond soil depth, since plant roots can partially penetrate dense layers or layers with a high proportion of coarse material. Nevertheless, the soil depth offers a suitable estimate of the soil volume accessible for root growth, as well as the soil's capacity to retain water and nutrients.

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Bundesforschungs- und Ausbildungszentrum für Wald, Naturgefahren und Landschaft (BFW)
Category
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food
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Bodeneigenschaft HighValueDataset National Soil Soil characteristic agriculture soil
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Maintainer	Bundesforschungs- und Ausbildungszentrum für Wald, Naturgefahren und Landschaft (BFW)
Maintainer Email	guenther.aust@bfw.gv.at
Publisher	Bundesforschungs- und Ausbildungszentrum für Wald, Naturgefahren und Landschaft (BFW)
Publisher Email	andre.musil@bfw.gv.at
License	Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
License Citation	Datenquelle: (c) BFW, CC BY 4.0
Metadata Link	INSPIRE Metadaten
Geographic Bounding Box	POLYGON (9.53357, 46.40749, 17.16639, 49.01875)
Lineage Quality	Austrian Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW)
Schema Name	OGD Austria Metadata 2.6
Schema Language	eng
ID	9eb263f1-2fa8-4647-9ff9-295b332e93cc
Human readable URL	https://www.data.gv.at/katalog/en/dataset/agricultural-soil-map-of-austria-soil-depth

Agricultural Soil Map of Austria - Soil characteristic Soil Depth - ETRS89 / LAEA - Geopackage Download

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Metadata last updated	August 5, 2025
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Metadata Identifier	9eb263f1-2fa8-4647-9ff9-295b332e93cc
Data URL	https://inspire.lfrz.gv.at/000604/ds/Gruendigkeit_BFW_Oesterreich.gpkg

Agricultural Soil Map of Austria - Soil characteristic Soil Depth - ETRS89 / LAEA - Shape Download

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Metadata Identifier	9eb263f1-2fa8-4647-9ff9-295b332e93cc
Data URL	https://inspire.lfrz.gv.at/000604/ds/Gruendigkeit_BFW_Oesterreich.zip

Agricultural Soil Map of Austria - Soil characteristic Soil Depth Download

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Metadata last updated	August 5, 2025
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License	Creative Commons Namensnennung 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Data Identifier	24c517e7-b40a-4505-a447-4f9f8db79022
Metadata Identifier	9eb263f1-2fa8-4647-9ff9-295b332e93cc
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Metadata last updated	August 5, 2025
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Metadata Identifier	9eb263f1-2fa8-4647-9ff9-295b332e93cc
Data URL	https://gis.lfrz.gv.at/api/geodata/i000604/ogc/features/v1/

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Metadata last updated	August 5, 2025
Data Language	ger
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Metadata Identifier	9eb263f1-2fa8-4647-9ff9-295b332e93cc
Data URL	https://portal.lfrz.at/at.lfrz.metadaten/srv/api/records/b04525b0-ff45-4445-940a-ab48e43ada1c

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