EEA geospatial data catalogue
European catchments and Rivers network system (Ecrins), lakes and reservoirs - version 1, Jun. 2012
This dataset contains the “lakes” datasets of Ecrins v1.0.
Lakes are very important features of any hydrographical system and have hence been added to Ecrins. This feature is more uncertain than the other ones since it results from the processing of different sources under a twin constraint of relevance and free of charges accessibility.
The current layer comprises 70,847 lake objects, that will certainly be updated in the months to come. A lake is, as a river both a geometric and cultural object. In areas where many lakes are intertwined, the difference between one and several lakes is often that a name has been found or not or that the Corine Land cover maker has placed a limit or not.
The database comprises the following tables: feature class C_Lak with all information related to all still waterbodies which area is more than the Corine Land cover threshold, plus those identified because a reservoir or any other relevant source. This table is completed by the centroids of lakes, V_lak_Centro. The complex relationships between lakes and river segments are documented by table lakInOut where the inlet and the outlet(s) segments are reported. Complementary tables, needed by the water accounts, v_lakperadmin et v_linterfec respectively document the lake to administrative entities, with shared area and same with FECs.
Being in relation with the other components of Ecrins, lakes are versioned with respect to catchments and rivers and with their update as well.
Lake naming comes from fours sources: ERM, Eldred2, Art 13 reporting and Wikipedia.
Hydrographical information (volume, Zaverage, Zmax) and is permanently updated from three source: Eldred2, the dams database, and Wikipedia
In version 1.0, the history of lakes is not documented. Most natural lakes have a time span much before and beyond the expected duration of Ecrins. Artificial lakes, related to dams have their history documented with the dam and some natural lakes are intermittent. This last category is not documented.
Since lower limit for lake inclusion is 25 ha, all “main lakes” under the WFD acceptation are present (except if missed for any reason, the most likely being creation of an artificial reservoir not present in the latest update).
Full documentation is in EEA technical report 9/2012, downloadable from the EEA website.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2012-06-08
- Edition
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01.00
- Citation identifier
- eea_v_3035_250_k_ecrins-lakes_p_1990-2006_v01_r00
- Citation identifier
- DAT-120-en
- Point of contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact European Environment Agency
Custodian
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 250000
- Topic category
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- Inland waters
Extent
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Extent
Temporal extent
- Time period
- 1990-01-01 2006-12-31
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Irregular
- EEA topics
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Water
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- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Hydrography
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- GEMET
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hydrography
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- EEA Management Plan
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2012 1.4.1
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Resource constraints
- Use limitation
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License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Resource constraints
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
Associated resource
- Association Type
- Larger work citation
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Data quality info
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Report
Result
- Title
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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
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See the referenced specification
Resource lineage
- Statement
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Main source is Corine Land cover 2006, checked against ERM lakes layer for identifying relevance of Corine Land cover classification. Secondary sources are Eldred2 (EEA dams database) and WFD Art 13 deliveries. For example, a large dams mentioned in Eldred with a lake of sufficient area is verified against the lake layer and eventual correction on Corine Land cover is carried out; this was often the case for narrow and long reservoirs on rivers that are frequently clustered, forgotten or ill-classified in Corine Land cover. The presence of lake in different sources is mentioned in the C_lak table and if possible the ID of the source element reported as well as the ID of the matched ERM lake, hence making a bridge between the Ecrins (operational data set) and the user of ERM (geographical data set).
Lake naming comes pro-parte from ERM, when a match is found and verified against other sources, from Art 13 reporting and from Wikipedia. Lakes matched to Wikipedia entries are as well flagged.
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Reference System Information
Reference System Information
- Code
- EPSG:3035
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- c156fb97-f3ea-4e61-b33f-b48236cb7f30
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Contact
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Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role European Environment Agency
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/geonetwork/srv/api/records/c156fb97-f3ea-4e61-b33f-b48236cb7f30
- Date info (Creation)
- 2012-06-12T13:15:49Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2025-10-09T11:12:56.14595Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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ISO 19115/19139
- Edition
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1.0
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