Coastal Zones Land Cover/Land Use Change 2012-2018 (vector), Europe, 6-yearly, Feb. 2021

The Coastal Zones LC/LU Change (CZC) 2012-2018 is providing the Land Cover / Land Use (LC/ LU) change for areas along the coastline of the EEA38 countries and the United Kingdom, between the reference years 2012 and 2018. The Coastal Zones product monitors landscape dynamics in European coastal territory to an inland depth of 10 km with a total area of approximately 730,000 km², with all the relevant areas (estuaries, coastal lowlands, nature reserves). The production of the coastal zone layers was coordinated by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in the frame of the EU Copernicus programme, as part of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) Local Component.

The Coastal Zones Change product covers a buffer zone of coastline derived from EU-Hydro v1.1. The Land Cover/Land Use (LC/LU) Change layer is extracted from Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite data and other available data. The reference years for the change are 2012 and 2018. The class definitions follow the pre-defined nomenclature on the basis of Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES) typology of ecosystems (Level 1 to Level 4) and CORINE Land Cover adapted to the specific characteristics of coastal zones. The classification provides 71 distinct thematic classes with a Minimum Mapping Unit (MMU) of 0.5 ha and a Minimum Mapping Width (MMW) of 10 m. The status product is available for the 2012 and 2018 reference years.

This CZC dataset is distributed in vector format, in a single OGC GeoPackage file covering the area of interest.

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

Date (Creation): 2020-11-12

Date (Publication): 2020-11-12

Date (Revision): 2021-02-24

Edition: 01.00

Citation identifier: copernicus_v_3035_10_m_czc-2012-2018_p_2010-2019_v01_r00

Code: 10.2909/c88e743d-e838-49e1-8c80-54f26bcf4ab8

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
Hydrography
Land cover

Keywords

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

United Kingdom
EEA38 (from 2020)

Keywords

GEMET

land use
hydrography
landscape alteration
land cover
coastal area

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: Vector

Distance: 10 m

Denominator: 10000

Language of dataset: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Environment
Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 2010-01-01

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 ( )

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
ESRI:REST	https://image.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/CoastalZones/CZ_CoastalZonesChange_2012_2018/MapServer
OGC:WMS	https://image.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/CoastalZones/CZ_CoastalZonesChange_2012_2018/MapServer/WMSServer?service=WMS&request=GetCapabilities&version=1.3.0
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/coastal-zones/coastal-zones-change-2012-2018#download	Download (requires authentication)
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://land.copernicus.eu/en/technical-library/coastal-zones-nomenclature-and-mapping-guideline/@@download/file	Nomenclature and mapping guideline – Coastal Zones Land Cover/Land Use 2012 and 2018 and Land Cover/Land Use Change 2012-2018
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://land.copernicus.eu/en/technical-library/coastal-zones-nomenclature-table/@@download/file	Factsheet – Coastal Zones Land Cover/Land Use 2012 and 2018 and Land Cover/Land Use Change 2012-2018 - land cover and land use nomenclature
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://land.copernicus.eu/en/technical-library/coastal-zones-qaqc-report/@@download/file	Quality assessment report – Coastal Zones Land Cover/Land Use 2012 and 2018 and Land Cover/Land Use Change 2012-2018

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
DOI	https://doi.org/10.2909/c88e743d-e838-49e1-8c80-54f26bcf4ab8

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: Computer assisted visual mapping of LC/LU change between the reference years 2012 and 2018. The main dataset for visual image interpretation of reference year 2012 was the DWH_MG2b_CORE_03 dataset (Optical VHR2 coverage over EU 2011-2013) while for reference year 2018 was the VHR_IMAGE_2018 dataset (Optical VHR coverage of EEA-39 2017-2019), consisting of 2m Pléiades, Kompsat 3/3A, SuperView-1 and 4m SPOT-6/7, TripleSat, PlanetScope and Deimos satellite data. The nomenclature is the basis of the MAES typology of ecosystems adapted to the specific needs of coastal zones monitoring and it is composed by 71 classes.

Positional Accuracy: less than 5 m (according to geo-location accuracy of satellite imagery delivered by ESA: less than 5m RMSE). Thematic accuracy (area-corrected Overall Accuracy): 99.6%. Accuracy Assessment approach: Stratified Random Point Sampling with 11619 sampling points. Interpretation of sampling points has been performed on the best available reference data.

The Minimum Mapping Unit is 0.5 ha.

The Minimum Mapping Width is 10 m.

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