EEA geospatial data catalogue
European catchments and Rivers network system (Ecrins), rivers - version 1, Jun. 2012
This dataset contains the “river segments” datasets of Ecrins v1.0.
River segments mimic the surface rivers on a simplified way, allowing simple journeying. As for FECs, but completed because of the process, any segment may have 0, 1 or 2 upstream and single downstream. The reason for single upstream is because spurious branching segments have been removed (~160,000) from CCM source during the Ecrins making.
The segments mimic rivers that are cultural, not simply defined objects. The “dummy rivers” (ID is CGENELIN) branches together all the segments which spring is most distant to the sea, then second most distant and connecting to this first set of segments, etc. the “true rivers” are those sets of segments having the same name, disregarding translation (segments on the Rheine, Rhin, etc. have same river ID). Name of true rivers is hosted in the EcrGaz database.
Dummy rivers maybe sorted out as “main drains” that either connect FECs together (continental FECs) or are the most important in a coastal FEC. Main drains are hence the potential population of “WFD large rivers”, since the FEC average size is ~1/10 of the threshold catchment size of main rivers.
The geodatabases contains two feature classes: C_Tr where all segments lines are. This table links to FECs, since a FEC may contain several segments. Feature class C_node contains all nodes, making implicit the flow direction that is identified in C_tr by FNode (from node) and TNode (to node).
Field River_ID links to flat table RivNames in EcrGaz personal geodatabase
Full documentation is in EEA technical report 9/2012, downloadable from the EEA website.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2012-06-08
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_v_3035_250_k_ecrins-rivers_p_1990-2006_v01_r00
- Citation identifier
- DAT-120-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
- 250000
- Topic category
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- Inland waters
Extent
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Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1990-01-01 2006-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Irregular
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Hydrography
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- GEMET
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hydrography
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- EEA topics
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Water
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- EEA Management Plan
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2012 1.4.1
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Resource constraints
- Use limitation
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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
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Larger work citation
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Distribution Information
- Distribution format
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Spatialite
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Microsoft Access (.mdb, .accdb)
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- OnLine resource
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Direct download
- OnLine resource
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GIS data documentation
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Title
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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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This dataset is derived from the segments and nodes data sets produced by CCM. Significant reprocessing has been carried out to clean the data sets, create hierarchy, populate incomplete fields (e.g. distance to the sea), create dummy rivers and, last but most important, give names to rivers.
A systematic check of branching errors is currently being carried out to identify topological errors (a->B and should be A->C) based on discharge computation and name matching.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 0176688a-1d75-45bc-8419-aaf45a59a72f
- 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/geonetwork/srv/api/records/0176688a-1d75-45bc-8419-aaf45a59a72f
- Date info (Creation)
- 2012-06-12T13:05:44Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T10:34:10.794507Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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