Elevation map of Europe (3km grid)

The map is made using the global digital elevation model (DEM) derived from GTOPO30. Note that the values in the file are not the original elevation data. The data has been processed to create an image for presentation purposes streching a predefined colour template over the derived values.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2016-07-07T13:25:07+00:00
Date (Publication)
2016-07-07T13:25:07+00:00
Citation identifier
eea_r_4326_3_km_elevation-map-europe_p_2004_v01_r00

Citation identifier
DAT-36-en

Citation identifier
digital-elevation-model-of-europe

Point of contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

 Point of contact

European Environment Agency

http://www.eea.europa.eu#organization

Publisher
Topic category
  • Environment

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
2004-01-01 2004-12-31
Maintenance and update frequency
EEA Management Plan

  • 2004 0.0.0

EEA topics

  • Waste and recycling

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • Albania

  • Armenia

  • Austria

  • Belarus

  • Belgium

  • Bosnia and Herzegovina

  • Bulgaria

  • Croatia

  • Cyprus

  • Czechia

  • Denmark

  • Estonia

  • Finland

  • France

  • Georgia

  • Germany

  • Greece

  • Hungary

  • Iceland

  • Ireland

  • Italy

  • Latvia

  • Liechtenstein

  • Lithuania

  • Luxembourg

  • Malta

  • Moldova

  • Montenegro

  • Netherlands

  • Norway

  • Poland

  • Portugal

  • Romania

  • Russia

  • Serbia

  • Slovakia

  • Slovenia

  • Spain

  • Sweden

  • Switzerland

  • Türkiye

  • Ukraine

  • United Kingdom

Resource constraints

Use limitation

(Letter of the U.S. Geological Survey (Michael G Benson) dated 6/01/2004 ref. OMST 1-1 to EEA (SBJ) filed by CDR/data policy/USGS/elevation data).

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
No limitations to public access
Language
English
Additional Information

Geographical coverage: Russian Federation covered until Ural Mountains.1000 m

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • GeoTIFF

OnLine resource

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_4326_3_km_elevation-map-europe_p_2004_v01_r00

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Data quality info

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Report

Result

Date (Publication)

Resource lineage

Statement

The data set was compiled by EEA and is derived from the GTOPO30 dataset ( http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/gtopo30/gtopo30.html). The DTM was converted to raster (georefernced tiff) using Arcview and Grid Pig extension. The Caspian Sea border, the Africa depression and some areas from the Netherlands, all under sea level were corrected. The DTM was hillshaded using ArcMap and Spatial Analyst using following parametres: Azimuth: 315, Altitude: 45, Model shadows: Yes, Z factor: 10, Cell size: 1000 m.

GTOPO30, available from U.S. Geological Survey, EROS Data Center, Sioux Falls, South Dakota. GTOPO30 is a global digital elevation model (DEM) with a horizontal grid spacing of 30 arc seconds (approximately 1 kilometer). GTOPO30 was derived from several raster and vector sources of topographic information. GTOPO30, completed in late 1996, was developed over a three year period through a collaborative effort led by staff at the U.S. Geological Survey´s EROS Data Center (EDC). The following organizations participated by contributing funding or source data: the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the United Nations Environment Programme/Global Resource Information Database (UNEP/GRID), the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), the Instituto Nacional de Estadistica Geografica e Informatica (INEGI) of Mexico, the Geographical Survey Institute (GSI) of Japan, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research of New Zealand, and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Metadata

Metadata identifier
2a933ad8-eca1-4367-98f1-ba5d826242dd

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

Type of resource

Resource type
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/2a933ad8-eca1-4367-98f1-ba5d826242dd

Date info (Creation)
2022-09-07T08:03:53.023Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T10:42:38.577119Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115-3:2018

Edition

1.0

 
 
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Keywords

EEA Management Plan

2004 0.0.0
EEA topics

Waste and recycling


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