3,619 resources found
Dataset: Coastal waters - version 1, Oct. 2013
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
"Coastal water" are surface water on the landward side of a line, every point of which is at a distance of one nautical mile on the seaward side from the nearest point of the baseline from which the breadth of territorial waters is measured, extending where appropriate up to the outer limit of transitional waters.
Dataset: EUNIS Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation, distribution based on vegetation plot data - version 1, Nov. 2021
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
This metadata corresponds to the EUNIS Inland habitats with no or little soil and mostly with sparse vegetation, distribution based on vegetation plot data dataset. These habitat types are non-coastal habitats on substrates with no or little development of soil, mostly with less than 30% vegetation cover which are dry or only seasonally wet (with the water table at or above ground level for less t ... (read more)
Dataset: EEA reference grid for Gibraltar (10km), May 2013
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
The grid is based on proposal at the 1st European Workshop on Reference Grids in 2003 and later INSPIRE geographical grid systems. The sample grid available here is part of a set of three polygon grids in 1, 10 and 100 kilometres. The grids cover at least country borders and, where applicable, marine Exclusive Economic Zones v7.0, http://www.marineregions.org. Note that the extent of the grid into ... (read more)
Dataset: EU-Hydro – River Network Database - version 1.2, Sep. 2020
- Publisher
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
- Contact point
- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk (copernicus@eea.europa.eu)
EU-Hydro is a dataset for all EEA38 countries and the United Kingdom providing photo-interpreted river network, consistent of surface interpretation of water bodies (lakes and wide rivers), and a drainage model (also called Drainage Network), derived from EU-DEM, with catchments and drainage lines and nodes. The EU-Hydro dataset is distributed in separate files (river network and drainage network) ... (read more)
Dataset: EU-Hydro – River Network Database - version 1.0, Nov. 2019
- Publisher
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
- Contact point
- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk (copernicus@eea.europa.eu)
EU-Hydro is a dataset for all EEA39 countries providing photo-interpreted river network, consistent of surface interpretation of water bodies (lakes and wide rivers), and a drainage model (also called Drainage Network), derived from EU-DEM, with catchments and drainage lines and nodes. The production of EU-Hydro and the derived layers was coordinated by the European Environment Agency in the frame ... (read more)
Dataset: Projected number of extreme heatwaves (2020-2052; RCP 8.5; number in 33 years), Jul. 2015
The raster dataset presents the median of the projected number of extreme heatwaves in the near future (2020–2052) in Europe, following the Representative Concentration Pathways (RCP) 8.5 scenario. The dataset is one of the multimodel ensemble used to project future occurrence and severity of heat waves under different RCP, which were adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change for it ... (read more)
Dataset: Marine Protected Areas (MPA) assessment areas buffer zones - version 2, May 2020
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
The present dataset includes three buffer zones used to calculate statistics on Marine Protected Areas (MPA) coverage in EU's marine waters. The three buffer zones layers correspond to "Near shore MSFD Region/Subregion boundary zone (0-1 nautical miles)", "Territorial MSFD Region/Subregion boundary zone (1-12 nautical miles)" and "Offshore MSFD Region/Subregion boundary zone (beyond 12 nautical mi ... (read more)
Dataset: Leaf Area Index 1999-2020 (raster 1 km), global, 10-daily - version 2
- Publisher
- European Commission's Joint Research Centre
- Contact point
- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk (copernicus@eea.europa.eu)
Defined as half the total area of green elements of the canopy per unit horizontal ground area. Every 10-days estimates are available at global scale in the spatial resolution of about 1 km covering the period from 1999 to June 2020 from SPOT/VEGETATION and PROBA-V data. LAI was defined by CEOS as half the developed area of the convex hull wrapping the green canopy elements per unit horizontal gro ... (read more)
Dataset: Climate related economic losses_superseded (1980-2022)
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
This indicator considers the number of fatalities, the overall and insured economic losses from weather- and climate-related events in the EEA member countries in the period from 1980 to 2022. Hazards considered are those classified as meteorological hazards, hydrological hazards and climatological hazards, based on the classification by the International Council for Science (ICSU).
Dataset: CORINE Land Cover Change 2012-2018 (vector), Europe, 6-yearly - version 2020_20u1, May 2020
- Publisher
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
- Contact point
- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk (copernicus@eea.europa.eu)
Corine Land Cover Change 2012-2018 (CHA1218) is one of the Corine Land Cover (CLC) datasets produced within the frame the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service referring to changes in land cover / land use status between the years 2012 and 2018. CLC service has a long-time heritage (formerly known as "CORINE Land Cover Programme"), coordinated by the European Environment Agency (EEA). It provides con ... (read more)
Dataset: Imperviousness Density 2021 (raster 10 m), Europe, 3-yearly, Jun. 2025
- Publisher
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
- Contact point
- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk (copernicus@eea.europa.eu)
The Imperviousness Density (IMD) 2021 layer is part of the High Resolution Layer (HRL) Imperviousness and contains the approximate density of artificial sealing per pixel (range: 0-100%) for the reference year 2021 as derived from Sentinel-2 image time series. The production of the HRL Imperviousness is coordinated by EEA in the frame of Copernicus, the Earth observation component of the European ... (read more)
Dataset: Tree Cover Density 2018 (raster 100 m), Europe, 3-yearly, Sep. 2020
- Publisher
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
- Contact point
- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk (copernicus@eea.europa.eu)
This metadata refers to the HRL Forest 2018 primary status layer Tree Cover Density (TCD). The TCD raster product provides information on the proportional crown coverage per pixel at 10m spatial resolution and ranges from 0% (all non-tree covered areas) to 100%, whereby Tree Cover Density is defined as the "vertical projection of tree crowns to a horizontal earth’s surface“. The production of the ... (read more)
Dataset: Urban Atlas Land Cover/Land Use 2012 (vector), Europe, 6-yearly, Jan. 2021
- Publisher
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
- Contact point
- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk (copernicus@eea.europa.eu)
The European Urban Atlas provides reliable, inter-comparable, high-resolution land use and land cover data for 785 Functional Urban Area (FUA) for the 2012 reference year in EEA38 countries (EU, EFTA and Western Balkan countries as well as Türkiye) and United Kingdom. The spatial data can be downloaded together with a map for each FUA covered and a report with the metadata for the respective area. ... (read more)
Dataset: Air Quality Health Risk Assessments (NUTS3 and countries)
- Publisher
- European Environment Agency
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency
This data set presents health risk calculation of exposure to three main pollutants (PM2.5, NO2 and O3) and information on PM10 concentrations at NUTS3, country and city levels. In addition, average and population weighted average concentration values are available in the data set for PM10, PM2.5, NO2 and O3 (SOMO35). The calculations are made for years 2005 to 2020. The concentrations data are ta ... (read more)
Dataset: GISCO - Communes 2013, Dec. 2015
This dataset shows pan-European administrative boundaries down to commune level version 2013. Communes are equivalent to Local Administrative Units, level 2 (LAU2), LAU2 for Greece (EL) are subject to confirmation. The Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS) and the LAU nomenclature are hierarchical classifications of statistical regions that together subdivide the EU economic terr ... (read more)
Dataset: Common Database on Designated Areas (CDDA) version 10 - vector and tabular data for internal use, Oct. 2012
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
The European inventory of nationally designated areas holds information about protected sites and about the national legislative instruments, which directly or indirectly create protected areas.
Dataset: Industrial Reporting under the Industrial Emissions Directive 2010/75/EU and European Pollutant Release and Transfer Register Regulation (EC) No 166/2006 - ver. 13.0 Dec. 2024 (Tabular data)
This metadata refers to the geospatial dataset representing the status of the EEA Industrial Reporting database as of 16 December 2024 (version 12). The release and emissions data cover the period 2007-2023 as result of the data reported under the E-PRTR facilities, 2017-2023 for IED installations and WI/co-WIs, and 2016-2023 for LCPs. These data are reported to EEA under Industrial Emissions Dire ... (read more)
Dataset: Waterbase - Water Quantity, 2022
- Publisher
- European Environment Agency
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency
Waterbase is the generic name given to the EEA's databases on the status and quality of Europe's rivers, lakes, groundwater bodies and transitional, coastal and marine waters, on the quantity of Europe's water resources, and on the emissions to surface waters from point and diffuse sources of pollution. The dataset contains time series of water quantity data, reported by EEA member countries and c ... (read more)
Dataset: Biogeographical regions, Europe 2016, ver. 1
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
The biogeographical regions dataset contains the official delineations used in the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC) and for the EMERALD Network set up under the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention). The Pannonian region of Serbia was missing in previous versions and this has been corrected in the 2016 version. Some Arctic islands which do not bel ... (read more)
Dataset: WISE WFD monitoring sites reported under Water Framework Directive 2016
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
The service contains information on the European monitoring sites used for the assessment of the status of surface water bodies and groundwater bodies in the 2nd River Basin Management Plans (RBMP). The information was reported to the European Commission under the Water Framework Directive (WFD) reporting obligations. The dataset compiles the available spatial data related to the 2nd RBMPs due in ... (read more)