4e92b07d-48b0-4a53-9db2-fd8d07070cc1 European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu pointOfContact 2025-10-09T10:49:48.196842Z ISO 19115/19139 1.0 EPSG:3035 Small Woody Features 2015 (raster 5 m), Europe, 3-yearly - Nov. 2019 2019-11-06 creation 2019-11-06 publication 2020-03-04 revision 01.00 copernicus_r_3035_5_m_swf-2015_p_2014-2016_v01_r00 DAT-237-en 10.2909/4e92b07d-48b0-4a53-9db2-fd8d07070cc1 The HRL Small Woody Features (SWF) is a new Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CMLS) product, which provides harmonized information on linear structures such as hedgerows, as well as patches (200 m² ≤ area ≤ 5000 m²) of woody features across the EEA39 countries. 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. The SWF layer contains woody linear, and small patchy elements, but is not differentiated into trees, hedges, bushes and scrub. The spatial pattern are limited to linear structures and isolated patches (patchy structures) on the basis of geometric characteristics. Additional Woody Features (AWF) are also included in this product. They consist of woody structures that do not fulfil the SWF geometric specifications but which are connected to valid SWFs structures. VHR imagery (DEIMOS-2, Pleiades 1A, Pleiades 1B, GeoEye-1, SPOT 6, SPOT 7, WorldView-2, WorldView-3 images from 2015) made available in the ESA Copernicus DWH are the main data source for the detection of small woody features identifiable within the given image resolution. The dataset is available for the 2015 reference year and is produced in three different formats. This metadata corresponds to the SWF 5m spatial resolution raster layer, which distinguishes between SWF (code =1) and AWF (code =3) ). This layer is derived from the SWF vector product in order to be more in line with other HR layers, and for allowing raster processing of the results. It describes the SWF landscape according to the high resolution of the input data, but without taking into account the possible small geometric inaccuracy of the vector product (due to VHR geometric imprecision, automatic processing such as smoothing, etc.). The geometric resolution is consistent with the EEA reference grid. 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/4e92b07d-48b0-4a53-9db2-fd8d07070cc1.png Land cover GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeutheme-theme EEA39 Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. 2015-07-17 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.place.regions land cover urban area sealing built environment land use soil surface sealing landscape alteration GEMET 2021-11-30 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.gemet European Spatial scope 2019-05-22 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeumetadatacodelistSpatialScope-SpatialScope 2020 3.6.7 EEA Management Plan 2023-06-22 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.eea-mp Biodiversity Agriculture and food Land use EEA topics 2020-09-24 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.eea-topics 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 5 utf8 environment imageryBaseMapsEarthCover 2014-01-01 2016-12-31 -31.268814 44.820546 27.638029 71.185417 GeoTIFF 1.0 https://image.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/GioLandPublic/HRL_SmallWoodyFeatures_2015_005m/ImageServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS OGC:WMS 0 HRL_SmallWoodyFeatures_2015_005m https://image.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/GioLandPublic/HRL_SmallWoodyFeatures_2015_005m/ImageServer ESRI:REST https://image.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/GioLandPublic/HRL_SmallWoodyFeatures_2015_005m/ImageServer https://doi.org/10.2909/4e92b07d-48b0-4a53-9db2-fd8d07070cc1 DOI https://doi.org/10.2909/4e92b07d-48b0-4a53-9db2-fd8d07070cc1 https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/high-resolution-layer-small-woody-features/small-woody-features-2015#download WWW:DOWNLOAD CLMS Website Download (requires authentication) https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/high-resolution-layer-small-woody-features WWW:LINK Product Information & Technical Documentation 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 Supervised classification and visual interpretation of linear and patchy features on pan-sharpened VHR_IMAGE_2015. 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 (code = 1). Besides, the Minimum Mapping Unit (MMU) for small patches of trees is 200 m² while the Maximum Mapping Unit (MaxMU) is defined by 5000 m². The Minimum Mapping Length (MML) of linear elements is 50 m. There is also an other distinction between this two structures: width (30 m maximum for linear instead of 30 m minimum for patchy). Additional Woody Features (code = 3) consist of woody structures that do not fulfil the SWF geometric specifications but which are connected to valid SWFs structures, as well as patchy structures too large to be considered as valid SWF. No data (code = 254). Out of Large Region limits (code = 255). Tiles NO116 (Southeast Norway) and NO119 (Northeast Norway) have been discontinued and will not be published due to lack of availability of suitable satellite data. Some tiles in the dataset are marked as v. 020. These tiles did first show unsatisfactory results and had to be reprocessed.