3,508 resources found
Dataset: Land Cover and Land Cover Change in selected hot-spots outside Europe
The Copernicus Hot Spot Monitoring (HSM) activity delivers land cover and land cover change products on Key Landscapes for Conservation (KLC) and protected areas, with an initial emphasis on the African continent, which are characterized by pronounced anthropogenic pressures that require high mapping accuracy. Land cover and land cover change products are based on medium to high and very high reso ... (read more)
Dataset: WISE WFD river basin districts and sub-units reported under Water Framework Directive 2010
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
The web service contains information on the European river basin districts and sub-units delineated for the 1st River Basin Management Plans (RBMP) under the Water Framework Directive (WFD). 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 1st RBMPs due in 2010 (he ... (read more)
Dataset: Copernicus HRL Forests and Corine Land Cover Forest products
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
The High-Resolution Layers Forest consist of 3 status and change products: tree cover density, dominant leaf type and forest type product. The products are available every 3 years for the period 2012-2018. The Corine Land Cover Forest products have assessed status and changes since 2000 and include 4 forest classes: 311 (broadleaved forests), 312 (conifer forests), 313 (mixed forests), and 324 (tr ... (read more)
Dataset: Natura 2000 250 m (raster) - mid 2009
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
This dataset was built from the original Natura 2000 vector. The raster grid is aligned with the EEA reference grid GeoTIFFs generated by GRASS, according to the GeoTIFF Revision 1.0 specifications at https://www.ogc.org/publications/standard/geotiff/. The information displays if there is or not Natura 2000 sites under each specific pixel zone.
Dataset: Geographic Information System of the European Commission (GISCO)
This metadata refers to the whole content of GISCO reference database, which contains both public datasets (also available for the general public through http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata) and datasets to be used only internally by the EEA (typically, but not only, GISCO datasets at 1:100k).
Dataset: Areas burnt by wildfires
This data presents the extent of areas in European countries directly affected by wildfires. It can be used as one of the indications where the danger of wildfires may persist or increase in the future under the changing climate..
Dataset: Urban Morphological Zones 2000 (vector) - version 13, Apr. 2010
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
A UMZ is defined as a "set of urban areas laying less than 200 m apart". Urban areas have been selected from Corine Land Cover 2000, version 13, by means of a complex methodology explained below.
Dataset: Potential cultural impact (ESPON climate project)
Combined potential impacts of changes in inundation depths of a 100 year river flood event and a sea level rise adjusted 100 year coastal storm surge event on registered World Heritage sites and museums. Impact calculated as combination of regional exposure to climatic changes and recent data on regional sensitivity. Fluvial inundation depths changes calculated by comparing 1961-1990 and 207102100 ... (read more)
Dataset: EEA reference grid for Türkiye (100km), May 2011
- 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 v2.0, http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/marbound. Note that the extent of the g ... (read more)
Dataset: WISE GWB provisional dataset for horizon 2 - PUBLIC VERSION, Oct. 2012
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
The shape file GWB_horizon_h2 comprises all GWBs located in the groundwater body horizon 2. Depending on the applied method these Ground Water Bodies are either underlying the uppermost groundwater body horizon 1 or form the uppermost groundwater body resources in many parts of a MS. The dbf tables of the shape files include the columns “EU_CD_GW” as the GWB identifier and “Horizon” describing the ... (read more)
Dataset: Emissions in European shipping areas
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
This series of data shows different emissions from shipping in European waters.
Dataset: Annual average water stress (ClimWatAdapt project, 2025 EcF)
Annual average water stress indicator WEI on river basin level for 2025, SCENES scenario Economy First (EcF).A water stress indicator is defined as the total withdrawal of freshwater resources in relation to the long-term average availability of the freshwater water resources within a river (sub)basin. One of the most important indicators for water scarcity or water stress is the water exploitatio ... (read more)
Dataset: Fluorinated greenhouse gases
Data reported by companies on the production, import, export, destruction and feedstock use of fluorinated greenhouse gases in the European Union during the years 2007-2019. The primary data is synthesised and aggregated at EU level and used to assess the progress on HFC phase-down made under both EU legislation and the UN framework as part of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol. The dat ... (read more)
Dataset: Common Database on Designated Areas (CDDA) version 8 - 250m raster for internal use, Jun. 2010
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
Consolidated raster containing the original CDDA polygons.
Dataset: Waterbase - UWWTD: Discharge Points
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
The Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (1991) concerns the collection, treatment and discharge of urban waste water and the treatment and discharge of waste water from certain industrial sectors. The objective of the Directive is to protect the environment from the adverse effects of the waste water discharges. This series covers the Discharge Points data reported under UWWTD data calls.
Dataset: OSPAR marine protected areas
This dataset represents the Network of Marine Protected Areas within OSPAR (Convention for the Protection of the marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic). MPAs are understood as areas for which protective, conservation, restorative or precautionary measures have been instituted for the purpose of protecting and conserving species, habitats, ecosystems or ecological processes of the marine en ... (read more)
Dataset: Reference Land Cover Change in Great Virunga 2000-2016 (vector) - version 1, Feb. 2019
- Publisher
- European Commission's Joint Research Centre
- Contact point
- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk (copernicus@eea.europa.eu)
This metadata refers to the Land Cover Change vector data generated over Virunga (Africa) in the framework of the Copernicus Global Land Hot Spot Mapping (C-GL-HSM) contract under the coordination of JRC. This area of interest is either mapped with the generic 8 classes dichotomus legend (CAF_02_lcc_a) or the detailed modular legend (CAF_02_lcc_b). The mapped area of interest (AOI) represents a Ke ... (read more)
Dataset: Annual start of vegetation growing season and trends
This is the time series of the start of the vegetation growing season (day of the year) and the derived linear trends in the start of the vegetation growing season (in day / year). The start of the growing season time-series is based on the time series of the Plant Phenology Index (PPI). The PPI index is optimized for efficient monitoring of vegetation phenology and is derived from the source MODI ... (read more)
Dataset: Offshore wind farms, Jan. 2012
Offshore Wind Farm locations and attribute data. List of main attributes provided in the spatial dataset: + WindfarmId (ID of the windfarm) + Name_1 (Name of the windfarm) + OtherNames (Other name of the windfarm) + CountryNam (Country where the windfarm is set) + Comments (Comments) + WindfarmSt (Windfarm Status or Project Status) + CapacityMW (Capacity of the windfarm) + NoTurbines (Number of tu ... (read more)
Dataset: Hydrographic vector features digitised from historical topographic maps
- Contact point
- European Environment Agency (sdi@eea.europa.eu)
Historical military topographic maps have been the basis for the digitisation of hydrographic features mapped in the period from 1816 to 1869. The digitisation was carried out in three different areas of interest (“pilot areas”) in the Danube River basin: 1) Lower and Upper Austria, 2) Balta Brailei - Wallachia, and 3) Drava River Catchment. The historical maps were provided by the Arcanum portal ... (read more)