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Small Woody Features 2018 (raster 5 m), Europe, 3-yearly, May 2023

High Resolution land cover characteristics for the 2018 reference year. Small woody landscape features are important vectors of biodiversity and provide information on fragmentation of habitats with a direct potential for restoration while also providing a link to hazard protection and green infrastructure, amongst others. VHR_IMAGE_2018 made available in the ESA Copernicus DWH will be the main data source for the detection of small woody features identifiable within the given image resolution. The Small Woody Features (SWFs) layer contains woody linear and patchy elements but will not be further differentiated into trees, hedges, bushes and scrub. The spatial pattern shall be limited to linear structures and isolated patches on the basis of geometric characteristics.

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Date (Publication)
2023-05-10
Edition

1.0

Citation identifier
copernicus_r_3035_5_m_swf-2018_p_2017-2019_v01_r00
Code
10.2909/a8e683b1-2f96-45c8-827f-580a79413018

Point of contact

No information provided.
Maintenance and update frequency
Annually

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Land cover

Keywords

    Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

    • EEA39

    Keywords

      GEMET

      • land use

      • land cover

      • landscape alteration

      • land

      • landscape

      Spatial scope
      • European
      EEA topics
      • Land use
      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
      Grid
      Distance
      5  m
      Language of dataset
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Topic category
      • Environment
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      Begin date
      2017-01-01
      End date
      2019-12-31
      Coordinate reference system identifier
      EPSG:3035
      Distribution format
      • GeoTIFF ( )

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      OnLine resource
      Protocol Linkage Name

      ESRI:REST

      https://image.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/GioLandPublic/HRL_SmallWoodyFeatures_2015_005m/ImageServer

      OGC:WMS

      https://copernicus.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/GioLandPublic/HRL_SmallWoodyFeatures_2018_005m/ImageServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

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      WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

      https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/high-resolution-layers/small-woody-features/small-woody-features-2018?tab=download

      Download (requires authentication)

      OnLine resource

      No information provided.
      OnLine resource
      Protocol Linkage Name

      DOI

      https://doi.org/10.2909/a8e683b1-2f96-45c8-827f-580a79413018
      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

      The HRL Small Woody Feature Raster Product is primarily based on a supervised classification of satellite image time-series from VHR_IMAGE_2018 acquired from May 2017 to September 2019.



      Geometric specifications: The Pixel resolution is 5m x 5 m. MMU, MML and MMW is applied on the vector product from which the raster product is derived.

      Vector product: For patchy structures of trees and scrub the MMU is >200 m2 (size limit of 50 000m2). The MMW for linear structures/elements is < 30m. The MML for linear structures/elements is of > 30 m length.

      The positional accuracy is less than 5 m.



      Quality assurance follows the ISO 9001:2015 standards for Quality Management and comprises of dedicated procedures of quality checks (QA breakpoints) during implementation of the production chain, in order to keep persistent control over the various stages of production, assure fitness-for-purpose of the end-products and that all quality requirements are fulfilled. Priority has been given to the target thematic accuracy to be achieved by each product, as well as to the issues of product consistency (spatial, thematic, temporal) and homogeneity.

      Quality Assessment: The quality assessment has been performed according to INSPIRE Data Specifications. The data quality elements considered are: (i) Completeness, (ii) Logical Consistency, (iii) positional accuracy, (iv) Thematic Accuracy, (v) Temporal quality and (vi) Usability.



      Accuracy assessment approach: stratified random point sampling. Interpretation of sampling points has been performed on the best available reference data. The general accuracy level of the HRL SWF products shall be in the order of 80 % for Overall thematic Accuracy, User’s Accuracy and Producer’s Accuracy.

      Metadata

      File identifier
      a8e683b1-2f96-45c8-827f-580a79413018 XML
      Metadata language
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Hierarchy level
      Dataset
      Date stamp
      2023-09-20T11:43:40.671Z
      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

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      Keywords

      EEA topics

      Land use
      GEMET

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

      Land cover
      Spatial scope

      European


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