Urban Atlas Building Height 2012 (raster 10 m), Europe - version 3, Oct. 2022

This metadata refers to the Copernicus Building Height 2012 third version. The dataset is a 10m high resolution raster layer containing height information generated for selected cities and urban areas in the EEA38 member countries and United Kingdom as part of the Urban atlas suite of products. Height information is based on satellite data and derived datasets like the digital surface model (DSM), the digital terrain model (DTM) and the normalized DSM.



The satellite data sources are IRS-P5 stereo images for the capital cities and VHR false stereo pairs extracted from the MAXAR catalogue (WV-01, WV-02, GE-01 and IK) for the remaining areas supplemented by LiDAR data as additional option.

Simple

Identification info

Date (Creation)
2022-10-06
Date (Publication)
2022-10-06
Edition

03.00

Citation identifier
copernicus_r_3035_10_m_ua-bh-2012_p_2012_v03_r00

Identifier

Code
10.2909/42690e05-edf4-43fc-8020-33e130f62023
Spatial representation type
Grid

Spatial resolution

Spatial resolution
10 m
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
  • Elevation

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
2012-01-01 2014-12-31

Extent

N
S
E
W




Maintenance and update frequency
Continual
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Land cover

  • Land use

  • Elevation

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • North Macedonia

  • Kosovo (UNSCR 1244/99)

  • Serbia

  • Iceland

  • Montenegro

  • Norway

  • EU27 (from 2020)

  • Switzerland

  • Albania

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Türkiye

  • United Kingdom

GEMET

  • model

  • urban area

  • building

  • land use

  • land cover

  • landscape alteration

Spatial scope
EEA topics

  • Land use

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

The Copernicus component is governed by Regulation (EU) No 2021/696 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 April 2021 establishing the Union Space Programme and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme and repealing Regulations (EU) No 912/2010, (EU) No 1285/2013 and (EU) No 377/2014 and Decision No 541/2014/EU. Within the Copernicus component, a portfolio of land monitoring activities has been delegated by the European Union to the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.



The Copernicus land monitoring products and services are made available on a principle of full, open and free access, as established by the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 of 12 July 2013.



Free, full and open access to the products and services of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service is made on the conditions that:



1. When distributing or communicating Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products and services (data, software scripts, web services, user and methodological documentation and similar) to the public, users shall inform the public of the source of these products and services.



2. Where the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products and services have been adapted or modified by the user, the user shall clearly state this.



3. Users shall make sure not to convey the impression to the public that the user's activities are officially endorsed by the European Union.

Associated resource

Association Type
Revision Of
Metadata Reference
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Additional Information

Spatial Resolution information: The Minimum Mapping Width is 10 m

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • GeoTIFF

OnLine resource

CLMS Website

Download (requires authentication)

OnLine resource

0

UA_BuildingHeights_2012_10m

OnLine resource

https://copernicus.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/UrbanAtlas/UA_BuildingHeights_2012_10m/ImageServer

OnLine resource

https://doi.org/10.2909/42690e05-edf4-43fc-8020-33e130f62023

OnLine resource

Product Information & Technical Documentation

Data quality info

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Report

Result

Title
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

See the referenced specification

Resource lineage

Statement

This product is generated based on satellite (LIDAR) information acquired as close as possible to the defined reference year. Based on these images a digital surface model (DSM) is generated. Afterwards a digital terrain model (DTM) is derived from the DSM with different filter algorithms and the assistance of Urban Atlas 2012 datasets. The calculation of the normalized DSM is done by a simple subtraction of the DTM from the DSM. The final product is then clipped based on UA 2012 building blocks and fully quality controlled.

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:3035
Maintenance and update frequency

Metadata

Metadata identifier
42690e05-edf4-43fc-8020-33e130f62023

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

Type of resource

Resource type
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/42690e05-edf4-43fc-8020-33e130f62023

Date info (Creation)
2022-09-28T13:00:11.29Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T10:47:17.340707Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
Access to the catalogue

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA topics

Land use
GEMET

building land cover land use landscape alteration model urban area
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Elevation Land cover Land use
Spatial scope

European


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