Grassland 2015 (raster 20 m), Europe, 3-yearly, Apr. 2018

The main high resolution grassland product is the Grassland layer, a grassland/non-grassland mask for the EEA39. This grassy and non-woody vegetation baseline product includes all kinds of grasslands: managed grassland, semi-natural grassland and natural grassy vegetation. It is a binary status layer for the 2015 reference year mapping grassland and all non-grassland areas in 20m and (aggregated) 100m pixel size and for the 2018 reference year - in 10m and (aggregated) 100m pixel size.

The production of the high resolution grassland layers was coordinated by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in the frame of the EU Copernicus programme.

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Identification info

Date (Creation)
2018-04-09
Date (Publication)
2018-04-09
Citation identifier
copernicus_r_3035_20_m_gra-2015_p_2014-2016_v01_r00

Identifier

Code
10.2909/35a036bb-c027-401c-8625-2ecf722e8461
Point of contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Commission

https://commission.europa.eu

Owner

Copernicus Land Monitoring Service

JRC-Copernicus-Land@ec.europa.eu

https://land.copernicus.eu

Custodian

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

http://www.eea.europa.eu

Publisher

Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk

JRC-Copernicus-Land@ec.europa.eu

https://land.copernicus.eu/en/contact-service-helpdesk

Point of contact
Spatial representation type
Grid

Spatial resolution

Spatial resolution
20 m
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Imagery base maps earth cover

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
2014-01-01 2016-12-31

Extent

N
S
E
W




N
S
E
W




Maintenance and update frequency
Continual
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Land cover

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • EEA39

GEMET

  • forest management

  • land cover

  • landscape alteration

  • land use

  • grassland

Spatial scope
EEA topics

  • Land use

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access

Resource constraints

Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

The Copernicus component is governed by Regulation (EU) No 2021/696 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 April 2021 establishing the Union Space Programme and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme and repealing Regulations (EU) No 912/2010, (EU) No 1285/2013 and (EU) No 377/2014 and Decision No 541/2014/EU. Within the Copernicus component, a portfolio of land monitoring activities has been delegated by the European Union to the European Environment Agency (EEA) and the DG Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.



The Copernicus land monitoring products and services are made available on a principle of full, open and free access, as established by the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 of 12 July 2013.



Free, full and open access to the products and services of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service is made on the conditions that:



1. When distributing or communicating Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products and services (data, software scripts, web services, user and methodological documentation and similar) to the public, users shall inform the public of the source of these products and services.



2. Where the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service products and services have been adapted or modified by the user, the user shall clearly state this.



3. Users shall make sure not to convey the impression to the public that the user's activities are officially endorsed by the European Union.

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distribution format

  • GeoTIFF

OnLine resource

0

HRL_Grassland_2015

OnLine resource

Product Information & Technical Documentation

OnLine resource

https://doi.org/10.2909/35a036bb-c027-401c-8625-2ecf722e8461

OnLine resource

https://image.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/GioLandPublic/HRL_Grassland_2015/MapServer

OnLine resource

CLMS Website

Download (requires authentication)

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

See the referenced specification

Resource lineage

Statement

Thematic accuracy: The thematic accuracy assessment will be made on the primary layer, the grassland mask. The target will be set at 85 % to be achieved within each biogeographic region. A quantitative approach will be used based on a set of stratified random point samples compared to external datasets (e.g. GoogleEarth, national orthophotos or national grassland datasets). Achieved overall accuracy: 96.66%. Geometric accuracy (positioning accuracy): Less than half a pixel. According to ortho-rectified satellite image base delivered by ESA.

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:3035
Maintenance and update frequency

Metadata

Metadata identifier
35a036bb-c027-401c-8625-2ecf722e8461

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/35a036bb-c027-401c-8625-2ecf722e8461

Date info (Creation)
2018-06-22T12:25:53Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T10:44:49.208093Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
Access to the catalogue

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA topics

Land use
GEMET

forest management grassland land cover land use landscape alteration
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Land cover
Spatial scope

European


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