Urban Atlas Land Cover/Land Use Change 2012-2018 (vector), Europe, 6-yearly, Jan. 2021

The European Urban Atlas provides reliable, inter-comparable, high-resolution land use and land cover change data for 785 Functional Urban Areas (FUA) with more than 50,000 inhabitants between the reference years 2012 and 2018 in EEA38 countries (EU, EFTA, Western Balkan countries as well as Türkiye) and United Kingdom. The spatial data can be downloaded together with a map for each FUA covered and a report with the metadata for the respective area. The Urban Atlas Change layers have become available as of 2012.



Urban Atlas is a joint initiative of the European Commission Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy and the Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space in the frame of the EU Copernicus programme, with the support of the European Space Agency and the European Environment Agency.



You can read more about the product here: https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/urban-atlas/urban-atlas-change-2012-2018.

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Date (Creation)
2020-04-16
Date (Publication)
2020-04-16
Date (Revision)
2021-01-20
Edition

01.02
Citation identifier
copernicus_v_3035_10_m_uac-2012-2018_p_2011-2019_v01_r02
Citation identifier
DAT-190-en
Code
10.2909/949683b7-5795-4c72-845f-77d049010649
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

copernicus@eea.europa.eu

https://land.copernicus.eu Distributor

European Environment Agency

copernicus@eea.europa.eu

https://land.copernicus.eu Custodian

European Environment Agency

copernicus@eea.europa.eu

https://land.copernicus.eu Point of contact

Point of contact

No information provided.
Maintenance and update frequency
Continual

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Land use
Keywords

    Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

    • United Kingdom

    • EEA38 (from 2020)
    Keywords

      GEMET

      • urban area

      • land use

      • landscape alteration

      • land cover
      Spatial scope

      EEA topics

      • Land use

      EEA Management Plan

      • 2018 3.6.2
      Access constraints
      Other restrictions
      Other constraints
      no limitations to public access
      Use constraints
      Other restrictions
      Other constraints

      Access to data is based on a principle of full, open and free access as established by the Copernicus data and information policy Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 of 12 July 2013. This regulation establishes registration and licensing conditions for GMES/Copernicus users.



      Free, full and open access to this data set is made on the conditions that:



      1. When distributing or communicating Copernicus dedicated data and Copernicus service information to the public, users shall inform the public of the source of that data and information.



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



      3. Where that data or information has been adapted or modified, the user shall clearly state this.



      4. The data remain the sole property of the European Union. Any information and data produced in the framework of the action shall be the sole property of the European Union. Any communication and publication by the beneficiary shall acknowledge that the data were produced “with funding by the European Union”.

      Spatial representation type
      Vector
      Distance
      10  m
      Language of dataset
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Topic category
      • Environment
      • Imagery base maps earth cover
      Begin date
      2011-01-01
      End date
      2019-12-31
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      Additional Information

      Spatial Resolution information: The Minimum Mapping Width is 10 m
      Coordinate reference system identifier
      EPSG:3035
      Distribution format
      • Geopackage ( 1.1)

      OnLine resource
      Protocol Linkage Name

      ESRI:REST

             		https://image.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/UrbanAtlas/UA_UrbanAtlasChange_2012_2018/MapServer

      OGC:WMS

             		https://image.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/UrbanAtlas/UA_UrbanAtlasChange_2012_2018/MapServer/WMSServer?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.3.0

      WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

             		https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/urban-atlas/urban-atlas-change-2012-2018#Download

      Download (requires authentication)
      OnLine resource
      Protocol Linkage Name

      DOI

             		https://doi.org/10.2909/949683b7-5795-4c72-845f-77d049010649
      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

      Cartography based on satellite images Interpretation (2012: SPOT 5 or ALOS - resolution 2,5 meters ; 2018: Pléiades, KOMPSAT, Planet, SPOT 6, SuperView, etc. - resolution 2 or 4 meters)

      Use of ancillary data (Google Earth, OpenStreet Map).

      Production land use/cover maps for Functional Urban Area in Europe.



      Typology:

      11100 Continuous Urban Fabric (S.L. > 80%)

      11210 Discontinuous Dense Urban Fabric (S.L. : 50% - 80%)

      11220 Discontinuous Medium Density Urban Fabric (S.L. : 30% - 50%)

      11230 Discontinuous Low Density Urban Fabric (S.L. : 10% - 30%)

      11240 Discontinuous Very Low Density Urban Fabric (S.L. < 10%)

      11300 Isolated Structures

      12100 Industrial, commercial, public, military and private units

      12210 Fast transit roads and associated land

      12220 Other roads and associated land

      12230 Railways and associated land

      12300 Port areas

      12400 Airports

      13100 Mineral extraction and dump sites

      13300 Construction sites

      13400 Land without current use

      14100 Green urban areas

      14200 Sports and leisure facilities

      21000 Arable land (annual crops)

      22000 Permanent crops (vineyards, fruit trees, olive groves)

      23000 Pastures

      24000 Complex and mixed cultivation patterns

      25000 Orchards at the fringe of urban classes

      31000 Forests

      32000 Herbaceous vegetation associations (natural grassland, moors...)

      33000 Open spaces with little or no vegetations (beaches, dunes, bare rocks, glaciers)

      40000 Wetland

      50000 Water bodies



      External Quality control realized by IGNFI.



      The Minimum Mapping Unit is as follows:

      Class 1 to Class 1: 0.1 ha;

      Class 2 - 5 to Class 1: 0.1 ha;

      Class 2 - 5 to Class 2 - 5: 0.25 ha;

      Class 1 to Class 2 - 5: 0.25 ha.

      The Minimum Mapping Width is 10 m.
      Source

      Metadata

      File identifier
      949683b7-5795-4c72-845f-77d049010649 XML
      Metadata language
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Hierarchy level
      Dataset
      Date stamp
      2024-02-06T16:45:13.535Z
      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

      EEA Management Plan

      2018 3.6.2
      EEA topics

      Land use
      GEMET

      land cover land use landscape alteration urban area
      GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

      Land use
      Spatial scope

      European


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