EEA geospatial data catalogue
European mountain areas - version 1, Dec. 2008
The delineation of European mountain areas was carried out by using digital elevation models, considering different criteria combination of thresholds of altitude, climate, and topography variables (IP2008 8.2.7 Regional and territorial development of mountain areas, ETC/LUSI - EEA).
This dataset was created in 2008, covers the full European continent and is a reference layer for the EEA Report No 6/2010 on Europe's ecological backbone: recognising the true value of our mountain ( https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/europes-ecological-backbone).
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2008-12-12
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_v_3035_25_k_european-mountain_p_2008_v1_r00
- Citation identifier
- DAT-215-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
- 25000
- Topic category
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- Environment
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2008-01-01 2008-12-12
Extent
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Elevation
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- GEMET
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mountainous area
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climate
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altitude
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- Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
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Andorra
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San Marino
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EEA39
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- EEA Management Plan
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2019 1.8.2
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Resource constraints
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
- Language
- English
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
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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The criteria for generating the European mountain areas data were based on the global dataset by Kapos et al. (2000), using the GTOPO30 global digital elevation model (DEM) developed by the US Geological Survey. The dataset excluded the climatic criteria for areas north of 62ºN. Additionally, to create continuous areas, and considering that topographic constraints play a greater role when they extend over a certain area, isolated mountainous areas of less than 10 km2 were not considered. However, non-mountainous areas of less than 10km2 within mountain massifs were included (ETC/LUSI - EEA, 2008).
References:
Kapos, V., Rhind, J., Edwards, M., Price, M.F. and Ravilious, C. 2000.
Developing a map of the world’s mountain forests In M.F. Price and N. Butt (eds.)
Forests in sustainable mountain development: A state-of-knowledge report for 2000. CAB International, Wallingford: 4-9.
IP2008 8.2.7 Regional and territorial development of mountain areas, ETC/LUSI - EEA
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 60c8302b-35cd-4376-9cda-865dd42fab7b
- 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/catalogue/srv/api/records/60c8302b-35cd-4376-9cda-865dd42fab7b
- Date info (Creation)
- 2019-07-17T12:00:05Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T10:53:44.607597Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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