EEA geospatial data catalogue
EEA coastline for analysis (raw) - version 3.0, Mar. 2017
The EEA coastline for analysis is created for highly detailed analysis, e.g. 1:100 000, for geographical Europe. The coastline is a hybrid product obtained from projects using satellite imagery as data source: EUHYDRO ( https://land.copernicus.eu/imagery-in-situ/eu-hydro) and GSHHG ( http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/). The defining criteria was altitude level = 0 from EUDEM ( https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/satellite-derived-products/eu-dem/view). Outside the coverage of the EUDEM, the coastline from GSHHG was used without modifications. A few manual amendments to the dataset were necessary to meet requirements from EU Nature Directives, Water Framework Directive and Marine Strategy Framework Directive. In 2015, several corrections were made in the Kalogeroi Islands (coordinates 38.169, 25.287) and two other Greek little islets (coordinates 36.766264, 23.604318), as well as in the peninsula of Porkkala (around coordinates 59.99, 24.42).
In this revision (v3, 2017), 2 big lagoons have been removed from Baltic region, because, according to HELCOM, are freshwater lagoons.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2017-03-28
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-03-28
- Edition
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3.0
- Citation identifier
- eea_v_3035_100_k_coastline-raw_1995-2012_p_v03_r00
- Citation identifier
- DAT-132-en
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact European Environment Agency
Custodian
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 100000
- Topic category
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- Oceans
- Elevation
Extent
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Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1995-08-01 2012-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- EEA topics
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Biodiversity
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- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Sea regions
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- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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Europe
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- GEMET
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coastal area
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coast
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- EEA Management Plan
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2018 2.6.1
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Resource constraints
- Use limitation
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
Associated resource
- Association Type
- source
- Metadata Reference
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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SHP
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- OnLine resource
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EEA coastline for analysis - version 3.0, March 2017
- OnLine resource
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Direct download
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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The criteria for defining the coastline is the line separating water from land. The EEA coastline is a product derived from two sources: EUHYDRO ( https://land.copernicus.eu/imagery-in-situ/eu-hydro) and GSHHG ( http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/) A priority defined in the input data, first EUHYDRO geometry and, as auxiliary data, GSHHG dataset. The EUHYDRO do not cover the required extension of EEA coastline. The EUHYDRO gaps are in Iceland, Canarias, Madeira, Azores, small islands (not represented in EUDEM) and the northern of Black Sea. For that reason, the GSHHG dataset is an input for the process which allow to populate the EUHYDRO shapefile.
The creation process was focused on generate the coastline as line datasets and, later, as secondary product, defining the polygon layer sea-land. Thank reiterative processes based on conversion (from water mask of EUHYDRO to polygon), selection, dissolving and conversion (to line) tools, it was possible to obtain a continuous and homogeneous coastline. The fundamental step into the workflow was the selection of sea features using the water mask polygon (with 255 value into EUHYDRO datasets). The inland water bodies (freshwaters) are rejected by these criteria, except the water bodies connected, at least by one point, to the sea (it is the cases of some transitional water bodies).
Two Baltic lagoons have been modified with the data from SVAR geodatabase version 2012_2, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI).
The patchwork coastline has been subjected to quality assessment based on evaluate the degree of coverage and topological errors.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- db4cfdd3-0687-4460-a2c7-fd10ca29c214
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/db4cfdd3-0687-4460-a2c7-fd10ca29c214
- Date info (Creation)
- 2018-03-08T16:13:07Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T11:18:12.240028Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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