0b6254bb-4c7d-41d9-8eae-c43b05ab2965 European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu pointOfContact 2025-10-09T10:36:04.436097Z ISO 19115/19139 1.0 EPSG:3035 EPSG:32738 EPSG:32740 EPSG:32620 EPSG:32622 Grassland 2017 - Present (raster 10m), Europe, yearly, Nov. 2024 2024-05-21 creation 2024-12-01 publication 01.00 copernicus_r_3035_10_m_gra_p_2017-now_v01_r00 10.2909/0b6254bb-4c7d-41d9-8eae-c43b05ab2965 The High Resolution Layer Grassland (GRA) raster product provides a binary status layer of grassland/non-grassland mask. This grassy and non-woody vegetation baseline product includes all kinds of grasslands: managed grassland, semi-natural grassland and natural grassy vegetation. It does not include temporary grasslands, which are masked out using the corresponding Ploughing indicator (PLOUGH), indicating on the number of years since a pixel was last ploughed. This dataset is provided annually starting in 2017 with 10 meter rasters (fully conformant with the EEA reference grid) in 100 x 100 km tiles covering the EEA38 countries. High Resolution Layer Grasslands product is part of the European Union’s Copernicus Land Monitoring Service. Confidence layer available for the dataset. This dataset includes data from the French Overseas Territories (DOMs) European Commission https://commission.europa.eu owner Copernicus Land Monitoring Service JRC-Copernicus-Land@ec.europa.eu https://land.copernicus.eu custodian European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu http://www.eea.europa.eu publisher Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk JRC-Copernicus-Land@ec.europa.eu https://land.copernicus.eu/en/contact-service-helpdesk pointOfContact https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/public/catalogue-graphic-overview/0b6254bb-4c7d-41d9-8eae-c43b05ab2965.png Land use Land cover GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeutheme-theme EEA38 (from 2020) Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. 2015-07-17T12:00:00 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.place.regions land use GEMET 2021-11-30 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.gemet European Spatial scope 2019-05-22 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeumetadatacodelistSpatialScope-SpatialScope Nature Land use Biodiversity EEA topics 2020-09-24 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.eea-topics 2024 6.5.24 EEA Management Plan 2021-08-25 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.eea-mp no limitations to public access 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. grid 10 utf8 environment imageryBaseMapsEarthCover -31.285 44.807 27.642 71.165 2018-01-01 -54.6203 -51.6142 2.1065 5.7653 -61.815 -60.994 15.8241 16.5206 -61.2351 -60.7907 14.3837 14.8826 55.2087 55.8416 -21.3949 -20.8656 44.9382 45.3053 -13.0793 -12.5781 GTiff https://geoserver.vlcc.geoville.com/geoserver/ows?service=WMS&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities OGC:WMS HRL_GRA:GRA_S2017 CLMS_HRL_Grassland_S2017_R10m https://geoserver.vlcc.geoville.com/geoserver/ows?service=WMS&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities OGC:WMS HRL_GRA:GRA_S2018 CLMS_HRL_Grassland_S2018_R10m https://geoserver.vlcc.geoville.com/geoserver/ows?service=WMS&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities OGC:WMS HRL_GRA:GRA_S2019 CLMS_HRL_Grassland_S2019_R10m https://geoserver.vlcc.geoville.com/geoserver/ows?service=WMS&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities OGC:WMS HRL_GRA:GRA_S2020 CLMS_HRL_Grassland_S2020_R10m https://geoserver.vlcc.geoville.com/geoserver/ows?service=WMS&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities OGC:WMS HRL_GRA:GRA_S2021 CLMS_HRL_Grassland_S2021_R10m https://wekeo.copernicus.eu/data?view=catalogue&facets=contactOrg~European Environment Agency WWW:DOWNLOAD WEkEO Portal Download (requires authentication) https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/high-resolution-layer-grasslands WWW:LINK Product Information & Technical Documentation https://doi.org/10.2909/0b6254bb-4c7d-41d9-8eae-c43b05ab2965 DOI 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 2010-12-08 publication See the referenced specification The Grassland layers (GRA) are directly derived from the Herbaceous cover (HER) and Ploughing Indicator (PLOUGH). A pixel is considered to be grassland if it has been herbaceous for six consecutive years. To retrieve this information the corresponding binary HER layer is masked with the corresponding PLOUGH layer, leaving only HER pixels which have not been ploughed in the previous year. Like the herbaceous product, each Grassland layer is clipped to the yearly BVL extent and filtered to a Minimum Mapping Unit (MMU) of 0.03 ha. This dataset is a continuation of the HRL Grassland timeseries, previously generated on a 3-year update cycle since 2015. The models and input data used to generate the product have evolved and therefore higher quality is to be expected as the timeseries progress. Quality assurance follows the ISO9000 standards for Quality Management and comprises of dedicated procedures of ongoing 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 accuracies 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) Thematic Accuracy, (iv) Temporal quality and (v) Usability. Each of them (excl. the Thematic Accuracy hereafter) forms a section in the QA/QC Procedures.