High-resolution soil map of the Federal State of Brandenburg with derivations of the water and wind erosion risks

Dataset contains an area-wide map of the soil properties of Brandenburg and Berlin as shape file, which meets the requirements of a 1 : 10,000 scale representation. In order to cover the entire area of the state, the map was composed of different sources: Soil Quality Appraisal, Medium-scale Agricultural Site Mapping (MMK), an extrapolation of the MMK as well as the area of Berlin. From 2008 onwards, the map was the basis for the annual classification of field blocks with regard to their water and wind erosion risk within the framework of "Cross Compliance" in Brandenburg. Each mapping unit has a value of the K-factor, describing the soil erodibility for water erosion based on the Universal Soil Loss Equation (USLE) and a risk class for wind erosion derived from the DIN 19706 “Soil quality - Determination of the soil exposure risk from wind erosion”.