Geographic Information System of the European Commission (GISCO), Jan. 2009

As a permanent service of Eurostat, GISCO: promotes and stimulates the use of GIS within the European Statistical System and the Commission; manages and disseminates the Geographical reference database of the Commission; acts as a reference centre concerning GIS; promotes geo-referencing of statistics and collaboration between national statistical institutes and mapping agencies; pursues and ensures standardisation and harmonisation in the exchange of Geographic Information; co-leads the INSPIRE initiative on the introduction of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure.



Within the framework of the GISCO project, an extensive geo-referenced database has been developed. One of the main topics of the GISCO mandate is to extend, maintain and update this database.

List of data sets offered by GISCO per ISO 19115 topic category (short name in []):

a) Farming: farm accountancy data network [FADN]

b) Biota: Natural Vegetation [VEGT], Biogeographical Zones [BIOG], Biotopes [BIOT]

c) Boundaries: Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS + Statistical Regions) [NUTS], Communes [COMM], Subcommunes [SCOM], Administrative regions [ADRG], Countries [CNTR]

d) Climatology / Meteorology / Atmosphere: Climate [CLIM]

e) Economy: Fishing Areas [FISH]

f) Elevation: Digital Elevation Model [DEM], Bathimetry [BATH]

g) Environment: Land Quality [LNQU], Designated Areas [DSIG]

h) Geo-scientific information: Soil Erosion Risk [SOER], Geology Geomorphology ErosionTrend [ERTR], Soil [SOIL], Sediments Discharges [SDDS], Coastal Erosion [COER]

i) Imagery/Base maps/Earth cover: Land Cover [LCOV]

j) Inland waters: Water Patterns [WTPT], Lakes [LAKE], Watersheds [WTSH]

k) Locations: Geographical Grid [GGGR], LUCAS [LUCA], Settlements [STTL], Gazetteer [GAZZ]

l) Oceans: Coastline boundaries [COAS], Sea Level rise [SELV]

m) Planning/Cadastre: Inter Regional [IREG], Leader Zones [LEAD], Less Favoured Areas [LFAV], National Support [NTSU], Structural Funds Zones [STFU], Urban Audit [URAU]

n) Society: Population [POPU], Degree of urbanisation [DGUR]

o) Transportation: Airports [AIRP], Ferry links [FERR], Ports [PORT], Road infrastructure [ROAD], Railway infrastructure [RAIL]

p) Utilities/Communication: Nuclear Power [NUPW], Energy Production [ENPR], Energy Transport [ENTR]



Further details can be found in gisco_naming_conventions_20090831.pdf

Simple

Identification info

Date (Creation)
2009-01-13
Citation identifier
eurostat_v_4326_x_x_gisco_i_2009_V01_r00

Status
Superseded
Spatial representation type
Vector

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
1000000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
100000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
3000000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
10000000

Spatial resolution

Equivalent scale

Denominator
20000000
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information

Extent

N
S
E
W




Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
1996-01-01 2009-01-13
Maintenance and update frequency
Irregular
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

  • Hydrography

  • Administrative units

  • Land cover

GEMET

  • protected area

  • soil erosion

  • vegetation

  • biogeography

Resource constraints

Use limitation

License

Resource constraints

Access constraints
copyright
Use constraints
license
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • GDB

OnLine resource

Direct download (Eionet authentication)

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

n/a

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:4326

Reference System Information

Reference system identifier
OGP Surveying & Positioning Committee/urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:7.1:4258

Metadata

Metadata identifier
874742f9-d62f-48b4-8414-649a15653b8c

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/874742f9-d62f-48b4-8414-649a15653b8c

Date info (Creation)
2010-10-11T17:05:17Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T11:01:36.568095Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
Access to the catalogue

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

GEMET

biogeography protected area soil erosion vegetation
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Administrative units Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units Hydrography Land cover


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