EEA geospatial data catalogue
EEA potential flood-prone area extent, Jan. 2020
The EEA potential flood prone area extent delineates the area that is flooded once every 100 years, i.e. the probability of flooding is 1% assuming that flooding is unrestricted. The potential flood prone area is comprised of the river channel and floodplain. In reality, the floodplain is split into an active floodplain where flooding still occurs, and former floodplain where flooding is restricted due to flood protection. The former floodplain could be flooded again either if a flood exceeds the capacity of flood protection, or if factors that control the presence of water were removed. These factors include channel and floodplain morphological alterations as well as structural flood protection measures.
The spatial coverage of the data set is EEA39 countries.
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2019-02-01
- Date (Publication)
- 2020-01-31
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_v_3035_50_k_flood-prone_p_2011-2016_v01_r00
- Citation identifier
- DAT-231-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
- 50000
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 100 m
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
- Elevation
Extent
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2011-01-01 2016-02-11
Extent
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- GEMET
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- sensitive environment
- sensitive natural area
- geography
- Water Framework Directive
- flood risk management
- hydrography
- natural risk analysis
- flooding
- animal habitat
- wildlife protection
- adaptation strategy
- water
- flood
- land use
- aquatic environment
- alluvial plain
- natural risks prevention
- environmental policy
- wetland
- surface water management
- inland water
- EEA Management Plan
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2020 1.5.3
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- EEA topics
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Water
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Land use
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Extreme weather
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Climate change adaptation
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Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
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).
- 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 spatial layer: Potential flood prone area extent, was derived from two spatial layers:
1. “JRC flood hazard map for Europe 100-year return period” and
2. “Copernicus Potential Riparian Zone layer” from the ‘Delineation of Riparian Zone’ data set.
JRC flood hazard map 100-year return period” layer is a result of flood model “LisFlood” and available for Europe in resolution of 100x100 m ( https://data.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset/jrc-floods-floodmapeu_rp100y-tif).
Copernicus Potential Riparian Zone layer is based on combining different hydrological and geomorphological parameters. These parameters are derived from the input data sets and are weighted differently dependent on their significance and quality. The resulting membership degree of each input parameter is finally combined into a single membership degree expressing the likelihood of an area to be part of a potential riparian zone. The minimum mapping unit of the Potential Riparian Zone (RZ) layer is 0.5 ha (geometric resolution and equivalent scale: raster 25 m and vector 1:50000).
Since "JRC flood hazard map 100-year return period" was provided in raster format, it was first converted to vector (polygon), then it was merged with "Copernicus Potential Riparian Zone layer" into one data set and clipped to EEA39 assessment extent. Derived spatial data set of the “Potential flood-prone area extent” covers 15% of EEA39 assessment area (or an area of 1,221,828 km2 ).
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 28c36420-c31b-440e-80c5-8064696f3517
- 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/28c36420-c31b-440e-80c5-8064696f3517
- Date info (Creation)
- 2020-01-30T11:44:03Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-02-09T19:45:04.065225Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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