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Copernicus High Resolution Water Snow and Ice Monitoring: Water Layer Rolling Archive (WLRA) 2009-2021, 10m

The Rolling Archive database (WLRA) is one of the products of the pan-European High-Resolution Water Snow & Ice portfolio (HR-WSI), which are provided at high spatial resolution from the Sentinel-2 and Sentinel-1 constellations data from September 1, 2016 onwards.

The High Resolution Water Layer portfolio consists of the Water Layer (WL), the Water Presence Index (WPI), the Water confidence layer (WCL) and the Rolling archive (WLRA).

The WLRA consists of intermediate production layers such as water and wetness masks showing the seasonal water and dry occurrences starting 2009. The masks are used for the generation of the Water Layer which covers a period of seven years per reference year and is regularly updated every three years. It is therefore important that it is consistent over

the entire period. To guarantee reproducibility and future continuation of the baseline product, these masks are provided within a database consisting of all

seasonal masks starting from 2009.

With the new update of the Water product, the HR WL for the reference year 2021 only water masks will be continued. Additionally, the computation frequency changed from seasonal to monthly masks. This update covers a period from 2016.09.01 to 20211231 including an update of the masks already availbe from the historic 2018 production. The binary masks are provided across Europe in a spatial resolution of 10 m x 10 m as GeoTiffs zipped in a ZARR file.

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Date ( Publication )
2025-04-23
Edition
01.00
Identifier
copernicus_r_3035_10_m_wcd_p_2009-now_v01_r00
Identifier
da67c24d-a8b3-4b43-a321-aedf9e5f0c83
Unique resource identifier
10.2909/c4803f9f-f0ef-412c-8519-407f36986133

Point of contact

No information provided.
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 cover
  • Hydrography
Keywords
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )
  • United Kingdom
  • EEA38 (from 2020)
Keywords
GEMET ( Theme )
  • monitoring
  • land cover
  • environmental policy
  • landscape alteration
  • water
  • ice
  • climate change impact
  • snow
Spatial scope ( Theme )
  • European
EEA topics ( Theme )
  • Water
  • Environmental inequalities
Temporal resolution ( Temporal )
  • Monthly
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
10  m
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
2009-01-01
End date
2021-12-31 Now
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Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
  • GeoTIFF ( 1.0 )

Protocol
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
Name
EEA Taskman ticket
Function
Information

OnLine resource

No information provided.
OnLine resource
https://doi.org/10.2909/c4803f9f-f0ef-412c-8519-407f36986133 ( DOI )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Date ( Publication )
2010-12-08
Explanation
See the referenced specification
Statement
Input data are the Water and Ice cover products (WIC S2) and Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 and Landsat of the 12 years time period.
File identifier
c4803f9f-f0ef-412c-8519-407f36986133 XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-04-23T12:45:31.758093Z
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
Environmental inequalities Water
GEMET
climate change impact environmental policy ice land cover landscape alteration monitoring snow water
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Hydrography Land cover
Spatial scope
European

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