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Urban Atlas Land Cover/Land Use Change 2012-2018 (vector), Europe, 6-yearly, Jan. 2021

The European Urban Atlas provides reliable, inter-comparable, high-resolution land use and land cover change data for 785 Functional Urban Areas (FUA) with more than 50,000 inhabitants between the reference years 2012 and 2018 in EEA38 countries (EU, EFTA, Western Balkan countries as well as Türkiye) and United Kingdom. The spatial data can be downloaded together with a map for each FUA covered and a report with the metadata for the respective area. The Urban Atlas Change layers have become available as of 2012.

Urban Atlas is a joint initiative of the European Commission Directorate-General for Regional and Urban Policy and the Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space in the frame of the EU Copernicus programme, with the support of the European Space Agency and the European Environment Agency.

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

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Date ( Creation )
2020-04-16
Date ( Publication )
2020-04-16
Date ( Revision )
2021-01-20
Edition
01.02
Identifier
copernicus_v_3035_10_m_uac-2012-2018_p_2011-2019_v01_r02
Identifier
DAT-190-en
Unique resource identifier
10.2909/949683b7-5795-4c72-845f-77d049010649
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
Maintenance and update frequency
Continual
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Land use
Keywords
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )
  • United Kingdom
  • EEA38 (from 2020)
Keywords
GEMET ( Theme )
  • urban area
  • land use
  • landscape alteration
  • land cover
Spatial scope ( Theme )
  • European
EEA topics ( Theme )
  • Land use
EEA Management Plan ( Theme )
  • 2018 3.6.2
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
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
Begin date
2011-01-01
End date
2019-12-31
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Supplemental Information
Spatial Resolution information: The Minimum Mapping Width is 10 m
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
  • Geopackage ( 1.1 )

OnLine resource
https://image.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/UrbanAtlas/UA_UrbanAtlasChange_2012_2018/MapServer ( ESRI:REST )
OnLine resource
UrbanAtlas_Change_2012_2018 ( OGC:WMS )

UrbanAtlas_Change_2012_2018

OnLine resource
Download (requires authentication) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
https://doi.org/10.2909/949683b7-5795-4c72-845f-77d049010649 ( DOI )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

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

Cartography based on satellite images Interpretation (2012: SPOT 5 or ALOS - resolution 2,5 meters ; 2018: Pléiades, KOMPSAT, Planet, SPOT 6, SuperView, etc. - resolution 2 or 4 meters)

Use of ancillary data (Google Earth, OpenStreet Map).

Production land use/cover maps for Functional Urban Area in Europe.

Typology:

11100 Continuous Urban Fabric (S.L. > 80%)

11210 Discontinuous Dense Urban Fabric (S.L. : 50% - 80%)

11220 Discontinuous Medium Density Urban Fabric (S.L. : 30% - 50%)

11230 Discontinuous Low Density Urban Fabric (S.L. : 10% - 30%)

11240 Discontinuous Very Low Density Urban Fabric (S.L. < 10%)

11300 Isolated Structures

12100 Industrial, commercial, public, military and private units

12210 Fast transit roads and associated land

12220 Other roads and associated land

12230 Railways and associated land

12300 Port areas

12400 Airports

13100 Mineral extraction and dump sites

13300 Construction sites

13400 Land without current use

14100 Green urban areas

14200 Sports and leisure facilities

21000 Arable land (annual crops)

22000 Permanent crops (vineyards, fruit trees, olive groves)

23000 Pastures

24000 Complex and mixed cultivation patterns

25000 Orchards at the fringe of urban classes

31000 Forests

32000 Herbaceous vegetation associations (natural grassland, moors...)

33000 Open spaces with little or no vegetations (beaches, dunes, bare rocks, glaciers)

40000 Wetland

50000 Water bodies

External Quality control realized by IGNFI.

The Minimum Mapping Unit is as follows:

Class 1 to Class 1: 0.1 ha;

Class 2 - 5 to Class 1: 0.1 ha;

Class 2 - 5 to Class 2 - 5: 0.25 ha;

Class 1 to Class 2 - 5: 0.25 ha.

The Minimum Mapping Width is 10 m.

Source
  • c82fc17a-a100-4cc8-b1a8-9d3566f57581
  • Urban Atlas Land Cover/Land Use 2012 (vector), Europe, 6-yearly, Jan. 2021
File identifier
949683b7-5795-4c72-845f-77d049010649 XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2024-02-06T16:45:13.535Z
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
2018 3.6.2
EEA topics
Land use
GEMET
land cover land use landscape alteration urban area
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Land use
Spatial scope
European

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