Geographic Information System of the European Commission (GISCO), Jan. 2009

As a permanent service of Eurostat, GISCO: promotes and stimulates the use of GIS within the European Statistical System and the Commission; manages and disseminates the Geographical reference database of the Commission; acts as a reference centre concerning GIS; promotes geo-referencing of statistics and collaboration between national statistical institutes and mapping agencies; pursues and ensures standardisation and harmonisation in the exchange of Geographic Information; co-leads the INSPIRE initiative on the introduction of a European Spatial Data Infrastructure.



Within the framework of the GISCO project, an extensive geo-referenced database has been developed. One of the main topics of the GISCO mandate is to extend, maintain and update this database.

List of data sets offered by GISCO per ISO 19115 topic category (short name in []):

a) Farming: farm accountancy data network [FADN]

b) Biota: Natural Vegetation [VEGT], Biogeographical Zones [BIOG], Biotopes [BIOT]

c) Boundaries: Territorial Units for Statistics (NUTS + Statistical Regions) [NUTS], Communes [COMM], Subcommunes [SCOM], Administrative regions [ADRG], Countries [CNTR]

d) Climatology / Meteorology / Atmosphere: Climate [CLIM]

e) Economy: Fishing Areas [FISH]

f) Elevation: Digital Elevation Model [DEM], Bathimetry [BATH]

g) Environment: Land Quality [LNQU], Designated Areas [DSIG]

h) Geo-scientific information: Soil Erosion Risk [SOER], Geology Geomorphology ErosionTrend [ERTR], Soil [SOIL], Sediments Discharges [SDDS], Coastal Erosion [COER]

i) Imagery/Base maps/Earth cover: Land Cover [LCOV]

j) Inland waters: Water Patterns [WTPT], Lakes [LAKE], Watersheds [WTSH]

k) Locations: Geographical Grid [GGGR], LUCAS [LUCA], Settlements [STTL], Gazetteer [GAZZ]

l) Oceans: Coastline boundaries [COAS], Sea Level rise [SELV]

m) Planning/Cadastre: Inter Regional [IREG], Leader Zones [LEAD], Less Favoured Areas [LFAV], National Support [NTSU], Structural Funds Zones [STFU], Urban Audit [URAU]

n) Society: Population [POPU], Degree of urbanisation [DGUR]

o) Transportation: Airports [AIRP], Ferry links [FERR], Ports [PORT], Road infrastructure [ROAD], Railway infrastructure [RAIL]

p) Utilities/Communication: Nuclear Power [NUPW], Energy Production [ENPR], Energy Transport [ENTR]



Further details can be found in gisco_naming_conventions_20090831.pdf

Simple

Date (Creation)
2009-01-13
Citation identifier
eurostat_v_4326_x_x_gisco_20090113
Status
Superseded

Point of contact

No information provided.

Point of contact

No information provided.
Maintenance and update frequency
Irregular

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units

  • Hydrography

  • Administrative units

  • Land cover
Keywords
    Keywords

      GEMET

      • protected area

      • soil erosion

      • vegetation

      • biogeography
      Use limitation

      License
      Access constraints
      Copyright
      Use constraints
      License
      Spatial representation type
      Vector
      Denominator
      1000000
      Denominator
      100000
      Denominator
      3000000
      Denominator
      10000000
      Denominator
      20000000
      Language of dataset
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Topic category
      • Environment
      • Geoscientific information
      N
      S
      E
      W
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      Begin date
      1996-01-01
      End date
      2009-01-13
      Coordinate reference system identifier
      EPSG:4326
      Reference system identifier
      OGP Surveying & Positioning Committee / urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:7.1:4258
      Distribution format
      • GDB ( )

      OnLine resource

      No information provided.
      Hierarchy level
      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

      n/a

      Metadata

      File identifier
      874742f9-d62f-48b4-8414-649a15653b8c XML
      Metadata language
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Hierarchy level
      Dataset
      Date stamp
      2021-04-22T15:55:22.701Z
      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
       
       
      Access to the catalogue

      Overviews

      overview

      Spatial extent

      thumbnail

      Keywords

      GEMET

      biogeography protected area soil erosion vegetation
      GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

      Administrative units Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units Hydrography Land cover


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