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.

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	Electronic mail address	Website	Role
European Commission		https://commission.europa.eu	Owner
Copernicus Land Monitoring Service	copernicus@eea.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	copernicus@eea.europa.eu	https://land.copernicus.eu/en/contact-service-helpdesk	Point of contact

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

European

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: 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.

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

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

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