EEA coastline for analysis (polygon) - version 3.0, March 2017

The EEA coastline dataset is created for detailed analysis with a Minimum Mapping Unit of e.g. 1:100000, for geographical Europe. The coastline is a hybrid product obtained from satellite imagery from two projects:

1) EUHYDRO (Pan-European hydrographic and drainage database) [ https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/satellite-derived-products/eu-hydro/view] and

2) GSHHG (A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database) [ 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.



This dataset is a polygon usable as a water-land mask.

Simple

Date (Creation)
2017-03-01
Date (Publication)
2017-03-01
Edition

3.0
Citation identifier
eea_v_3035_100_k_coastline-poly_1995-2017_p_v03_r00
Citation identifier
DAT-132-en
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

http://www.eea.europa.eu Point of contact

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

mette.lund@eea.europa.eu

irene.barrio@eea.europa.eu

Custodian
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Sea regions
Keywords
    Keywords

      Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

      • Europe

      GEMET

      • coast

      EEA Management Plan

      • 2018 2.6.1

      EEA topics

      • Seas and coasts
      Use limitation

      EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged ( http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

      Access constraints
      Other restrictions
      Other constraints
      no limitations to public access
      Spatial representation type
      Vector
      Denominator
      100000
      Language of dataset
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Topic category
      • Oceans
      • Elevation
      N
      S
      E
      W
      thumbnail




      Begin date
      1995-08-01
      End date
      2017-12-31
      Coordinate reference system identifier
      EPSG:3035
      Distribution format
      • SHP ( 1)

      OnLine resource
      Protocol Linkage Name

      EEA:FILEPATH

             		https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_3035_100_k_coastline-poly_1995-2017_p_v03_r00/

      WWW:URL

             		https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/9faa6ea1-372a-4826-a3c7-fb5b05e31c52

      Direct download

      ESRI:REST

             		https://marine.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Marine/EEA_coastline_2017/MapServer

      OGC:WMS

             		https://marine.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Marine/EEA_coastline_2017/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

      0
      Hierarchy level
      Dataset

      Conformance 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
      Statement

      Polygon: the polygon was derived from the parent dataset by adding two straight lines, one North-to-South, at the East-most part of the parent dataset, and the second one West-to-East, at the South–most part of the parent dataset. These 2 lines are taken from the NGA-derived coastline produced by the ETC-BD in 2008. Then a polygon dataset is created using the ArcGIS tool “Feature to Polygon”.

      The Baltic lagoons have been modified with the data from SVAR geodatabase version 2012_2, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI).

      Source

      Metadata

      File identifier
      9faa6ea1-372a-4826-a3c7-fb5b05e31c52 XML
      Metadata language
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Hierarchy level
      Dataset
      Date stamp
      2024-06-12T10:45:04.879542Z
      Metadata standard name

      ISO 19115/19139
      Metadata standard version

      1.0
      Metadata author
      Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Website Role

      European Environment Agency

      sdi@eea.europa.eu

      		Point of contact
       
       
      Access to the catalogue

      Overviews

      overview

      Spatial extent

      thumbnail

      Keywords

      EEA Management Plan

      2018 2.6.1
      EEA topics

      Seas and coasts
      GEMET

      coast
      GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

      Sea regions


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