EEA coastline for analysis (raw) - version 1.0, Jun. 2013

The criteria for defining the coastline is the line separating water from land. The EEA coastline is a product derived from two sources: EUHYDRO [link not available - yet] 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 requirement for EEA coastline. The EUHYDRO gaps are in Iceland, Canarias, Madeira, Azores, small islands (not represented in EUDEM) and the northern of Black Sea. The creation process was focused on generating the coastline as line dataset and, later, as a secondary product, defining the polygon layer sea-land. The fundamental step into the workflow was the selection of sea features using a water mask polygon (value in EUHYDRO datasets = 255). The inland water bodies (freshwaters) are rejected by this criteria, except the water bodies connected, at least by one point, to the sea (it is the cases of some transitional water bodies). A few manual amendments to the dataset were necessary to meet requirements from EU Nature Directives, Water Framework Directive and Marine Strategy Framework Directive. This dataset consists of a series of contiguous coastal segments. The source of each of them (EUDEM, GSHHG...) is available as attribute.

Date (Creation): 2013-06-28

Edition: 1.0

Citation identifier: eea_v_3035_100_k_coastline-raw_1995-2012_p_v01_r00

Status: Superseded

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 oscar.gomez@eea.europa.eu		Custodian

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Sea regions

GEMET

coast

Keywords

Place

Europe

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).

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

Begin date: 1995-08-01

End date: 2012-12-31

Coordinate reference system identifier: EPSG:3035

Distribution format

SHP ( )

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
EEA:FILEPATH	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_3035_100_k_coastline-raw_1995-2012_p_v01_r00/Europe_coastline_raw_20130605.shp
WWW:URL	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/47142840-45c7-4e23-a497-c6fc4fd84a48	Direct download

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: The criteria for defining the coastline is the line separating water from land. The EEA coastline is a product derived from two sources: EUHYDRO [link not available - yet] 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 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 this criteria, except the water bodies connected, at least by one point, to the sea (it is the cases of some transitional water bodies).

The patchwork coastline has been subjected to quality assessment based on evaluate the degree of coverage and topological errors.