Ecosystem types of Europe 2012 - Terrestrial habitats - version 3 revision 1, Feb. 2019

The data set aims to contribute to a better biological characterization of terrestrial ecosystems across Europe (EEA-39). As such it represents probabilities of EUNIS (EUropean Nature Information System) habitat presence at Level 2 (this corresponds to EUNIS level 3 for marine habitats).



The map combines spatially explicit data on land cover information with non-spatially referenced habitat information of the EUNIS classification. The objective of the data set produced by EEA and its Topic Centre ETC/BD is to improve the biological description of land based ecosystem types and their spatial distribution across Europe.



Since it is partly based on non-spatial explicit mapping the spatial and thematic accuracy is not of same quality as delineated maps. For terrestrial habitats the geometric and thematic accuracy is estimated in the reliability map 2012 v3.1 as secondary product.



The work supports Target 2 Action 5 of the implementation of the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, established to achieve the Aichi targets of the Convention of Biological Diversity (CBD). It further ad-dresses the MAES process (Mapping and Assessing of Ecosystems and their Services). The MAES ecosystem typology differentiates three levels and with certain differences follows the EUNIS classification: whereas MAES level 2 the proposal corresponds to EUNIS level 1, MAES level 3 follows closely the EUNIS level 2. A representation of MAES level 2 is contained in the reliability map as secondary product.

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Date (Creation)
2018-12-31
Edition

03.01
Citation identifier
eea_r_3035_100_m_ecosystem-types-terrestrial-c_p_2012_v03_r01
Citation identifier
DAT-146-en
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

http://www.eea.europa.eu Point of contact

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Custodian
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Land cover

  • Habitats and biotopes
Keywords
    Keywords

      Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

      • EEA39

      GEMET

      • ecosystem services

      • ecosystem

      • environmental assessment

      • ecosystem type

      • riparian zone

      • land cover

      • habitat
      Spatial scope

      EEA Management Plan

      • 2018 1.7.5

      EEA topics

      • Biodiversity

      • Land use

      • Forests and forestry
      Use limitation

      EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged ( http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

      Access constraints
      Other restrictions
      Other constraints
      no limitations to public access
      Spatial representation type
      Grid
      Distance
      100  m
      Language of dataset
      English
      Topic category
      • Biota
      • Environment
      • Inland waters
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      Begin date
      2012-01-01
      End date
      2012-12-31
      Coordinate reference system identifier
      EPSG:3035
      Distribution format
      • GeoTIFF ( 1)

      OnLine resource
      Protocol Linkage Name

      EEA:FILEPATH

             		https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_100_m_ecosystem-types-terrestrial-c_p_2012_v03_r01/eea_r_3035_100_m_etm-terrestrial-c_2012_v3-1_r00.tif

      OGC:WMS

             		https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Ecosystem/EcosystemTypeMap_v3_1_Terrestrial/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

      ESRI:REST

             		https://bio.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Ecosystem/EcosystemTypeMap_v3_1_Terrestrial/MapServer

      WWW:URL

             		https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/7c0cf3f2-ab54-4cd0-a635-b322df7197f6

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      Dataset

      Conformance 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
      Statement

      In comparison to the Ecosystem Type Map 2006 v2.1, the Ecosystem Type Map 2012 v3.1 shows changes in four specific aspects:



      a) Changes of the mapping ruleset:

      The ruleset to translate land cover information from CLC to EUNIS level 2 has been improved to v3.1 based a validation with in-situ vegetation relevés and experience from ETM v2.1. Crosswalks to integrate new datasets of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service are also based on ruleset v3.1.



      b) Use of updated datasets:

      • CORINE Land Cover 2012 accounting layer (instead of CLC 2012 status layer)

      • HRL Forests 2012 (Forest Type, Tree Cover Density)

      • HRL Imperviousness 2012

      • OpenStreetMap (OSM) data 2015 (main roads, selected land use information)



      c) Integration of new available Copernicus data:

      • Urban Atlas 2012

      • Riparian Zones 2012

      • Natura 2000 (N2k) 2012

      • HRL Grassland 2012

      • HRL Permanent Water Bodies 2012



      d) Spatial extension to include Azores



      Mapping process:

      The basic approach for the ecosystem type mapping is the geographic and thematic refinement of a certain land cover input datasets to translate the original LC information into the EUNIS classification.

      The mapping approach is based on four elements:

      1. Original Land cover (LC) information to be mapped into EUNIS L2:

      - CORINE Land Cover

      - Copernicus Local Components: Urban Atlas, Riparian Zones, Natura 2000

      - High Resolution Layers (Forest, Imperviousness, Grassland, Permanent Waterbodies)

      - OpenStreetMap (Main roads, selected LC classes)



      2. Mapping rules based on crosswalks:

      Crosswalks provide the information, from what original land cover information EUNIS classes can be derived. The Mapping rules define which (stable and variable) datasets are needed for the refinement and how they have to be classified (setting thresholds) to translate the original LC information into the EUNIS classification.



      3. Stable core input datasets

      Datasets to be used for the refinement: Environmental zone, potential natural vegetation, altitude etc.



      4. Variable input datasets

      HRL Imperviousness, HRL Forest (Tree Cover Density)



      Each LC input dataset is processed and mapped into EUNIS L2 independently with its own crosswalk. The components are assembled together later in the following order (priority from low to high):

      1. CLC 2012 accounting

      2. Urban Atlas 2012

      3. Riparian Zones 2012

      4. Natura 2000 (N2k) 2012

      5. HRL Imperviousness 2012

      6. OSM land use 2015

      7. HRL Grassland 2012

      8. HRL Permanent Water Bodies 2012

      9. OSM main roads 2015

      10. HRL Forest 2012 (Forest Type)



      Outputs:

      a) Primary output is the actual map representing EUNIS classes on Level 2 with a resolution of 100 x 100 m.

      b) The Reliability Map is the secondary output containing geometric & thematic reliability, rule_ID, data source and MAES L2 classification for each raster cell.



      More information can be found in the ETC/BD Technical Paper 11/2018 "Ecosystem Type Map v3.1-Terrestrial and marine ecosystems" provided with the dataset (Ecosystem_mapping_v3_1.pdf).

      Source

      Metadata

      File identifier
      7c0cf3f2-ab54-4cd0-a635-b322df7197f6 XML
      Metadata language
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Hierarchy level
      Dataset
      Date stamp
      2021-04-27T11:32:08.054Z
      Metadata standard name

      ISO 19115/19139
      Metadata standard version

      1.0
      Metadata author
      Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Website Role

      European Environment Agency

      sdi@eea.europa.eu

      		Point of contact
       
       
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      Keywords

      EEA Management Plan

      2018 1.7.5
      EEA topics

      Biodiversity Forests and forestry Land use
      GEMET

      ecosystem ecosystem services ecosystem type environmental assessment habitat land cover riparian zone
      GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

      Habitats and biotopes Land cover
      Spatial scope

      European


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