Elevation Breakdown based on EU-DEM (resolution 1km), Dec. 2016

Generalisation at 1 km resolution of elevation breakdown 100 m (based on EU-DEM).

This layer defines homogeneous areas as function of height, slope and distance to the sea. The Elevation Breakdown is used to allocate Land Cover Changes into homogeneous areas as function of height, slope and distance to the sea. It defines five relief typologies: 1) Low coasts, 2) High Coasts, 3) Inlands, 4) Uplands and 4) Mountains. The previous enumeration corresponds to values in the grid.This layer is an updated version using similar methodology to the one created on 2006 (same classes and thresholds) but it has been generated using up-to-date high resolution datasets (EU-DEM) in order to create a more accurate layer.

Date ( Publication ): 2016-12-20

Date ( Creation ): 2016-12-20

Identifier: eea_r_3035_1_km_ebk-eudem_2012

Point of contact

European Environment Agency

Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark

http://www.eea.europa.eu

Custodian

European Environment Agency - Eva Ivits ( Environmental data centre for land use )

Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark

http://www.eea.europa.eu

Maintenance and update frequency: Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )

Elevation

EEA keyword list

LEAC
mountain
IDP_topics_Topography
IDP_shortname_Elevation_Breakdown_1km

EEA categories ( Theme )

geospatial data

GEMET ( Theme )

land cover

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )

EEA32 (2006-2013)

Spatial scope ( Theme )

European

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Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: No limitations to public access

Spatial representation type: Grid

Distance: 1 km

Metadata language: en

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Elevation

Begin date: 2012-01-01

End date: 2012-12-31

CRS identifier: EPSG:3035

Distribution format

GTiff ( 6.0 )

OnLine resource: https://land.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Elevation/Elevation_Breakdown_2012_1km/MapServer ( ESRI:REST )

OnLine resource: 0 ( OGC:WMS )
Elevation Breakdown 1km (based on EU-DEM)

OnLine resource: Direct download (Eionet authentication) ( WWW:URL )

OnLine resource: https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/continental/europe/elevation/eea_r_3035_1_km_ebk-eudem_2012/eea_r_3035_1_km_ebk-eudem_2012.tif ( EEA:FILEPATH )

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication ): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Statement: Generalisation at 1 km resolution of elevation breakdown 100 m (based on EU-DEM), which was created as an update using the Digital Elevation Model over Europe from the GSGRDA project (EU-DEM, resolution 25 m). Areas next to the sea (<10 km from the coastline) were considered Coasts and splited in two categories: Low coasts (< 50 m) and High coasts (> 50 m). Inlands were the areas between 0 and 200 m outside the coastal strip. Uplands were the zones between 200 - 500 m plus the flat areas between 500 and 1000. The slopy areas between 500 and 1000 m and all the areas over 1000 m were classified as Mountains.

Input layers include:

- EUDEM resampled to 100m (derived from EU-DEM 25m)

- Coastline and reference mask, provided by GISAT.

Detailed methodology is available on http://forum.eionet.europa.eu/etc-sia-consortium/library/2012_subvention/261_2_ludc/133_elevation_data/elevation-breakdown-final-report-1 (section 2).