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Share of Built-Up Change 2018-2021 (raster 100 m), Europe, 3-yearly, Jun 2025

The Share of Built-Up Change (SBUC) 2018-2021 layer is part of the High Resolution Layer (HRL) Imperviousness and contains the change of built-up per pixel (increase or decrease in percentage) as derived from the difference between the Impervious Built-Up (IBU) status layers for the reference years 2018 and 2021, in an aggregated version of 100m spatial resolution. The production of the HRL Imperviousness is coordinated by EEA in the frame of Copernicus, the Earth observation component of the European Union’s Space programme.

The product is a raster dataset with 100-meter grid spacing (spatial resolution) that covers the 38 Eionet member and cooperating countries as well as the United Kingdom (i.e. EEA38+UK). It is distributed as 100 x 100 km tiles that are fully conformant with the EEA reference grid.

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Date ( Creation )
2025-05-01
Date ( Publication )
2025-08-01
Edition
01.00
Identifier
copernicus_r_3035_100_m_sbuc-2018-2021_p_2018-2021_v01_r00
Identifier
DAT-14-en
Unique resource identifier
10.2909/43974050-c538-4b38-b390-2f909f523ad1
Owner
  European Commission
https://commission.europa.eu
Custodian
  Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
https://land.copernicus.eu
Publisher
  European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark
http://www.eea.europa.eu
Point of contact
  Copernicus Land Monitoring Service helpdesk
https://land.copernicus.eu/en/contact-service-helpdesk

Point of contact

No information provided.
Maintenance and update frequency
Continual
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Land cover
  • Land use
Keywords
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )
  • EEA38 (from 2020)
  • United Kingdom
Keywords
GEMET ( Theme )
  • built-up area
  • urban area
  • land use
  • landscape alteration
  • built environment
  • soil surface sealing
  • sealing
  • land cover
Spatial scope ( Theme )
  • European
EEA topics ( Theme )
  • Soil
  • Land use
  • Buildings and construction
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
100  m
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
Begin date
2018-01-01
End date
2021-12-31
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Supplemental Information

Pixel codes:

0 to 99: 1-100% Built-Up decrease

100: Unchanged Built-Up areas

101-200: 1-100% Built-Up increase

201: Unchanged non-built-up areas

255: Outside area

Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
  • GeoTIFF ( 1.0 )

OnLine resource
Product Information & Technical Documentation ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
WEkEO Portal ( WWW:URL )

OnLine resource

No information provided.
OnLine resource
https://doi.org/10.2909/43974050-c538-4b38-b390-2f909f523ad1 ( DOI )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Statement

The Share of Build-Up Change 2018-2021 layer was derived by computing the difference between the Impervious Build-Up status layers for the reference years 2021 and 2018 (IBU 2021 – IBU 2018) using a change mask, followed by an averaging operation to aggregate pixels to a coarser resolution (100 m). The change mask, derived from harmonic coefficients of NDVI data from 2018 and 2021, was used in the process as it served as a proxy for land-cover change.

Changes to previous release (2018):

- Introduction of a new production system and algorithm (U-Net CNN).

- Reduction of in-situ data dependency for dataset production.

- First Impervious Built-up Change (IBUC) layer (2018-2021).

File identifier
43974050-c538-4b38-b390-2f909f523ad1 XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-09-17T15:14:25.525891Z
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
  European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 , Copenhagen , K , 1050 , Denmark
 
 

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Keywords

EEA Management Plan

EEA topics
Buildings and construction Land use Soil
GEMET
built environment built-up area land cover land use landscape alteration sealing soil surface sealing urban area
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Land cover Land use
Spatial scope
European

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