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Imperviousness Density Change 2015-2018 (raster 20 m), Europe, 3-yearly, Aug. 2020

The High Resolution Layer Imperviousness Change (IMC) 2015-2018 is a 20m raster dataset showing change in imperviousness between 2015 and 2018 reference years, produced in the frame of the EU Copernicus programme.

The high resolution imperviousness products capture the percentage and change of soil sealing. Built-up areas are characterized by the substitution of the original (semi-) natural land cover or water surface with an artificial, often impervious cover. These artificial surfaces are usually maintained over long periods of time. A series of high resolution imperviousness datasets (for the 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018 reference years) with all artificially sealed areas was produced using automatic derivation based on calibrated Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). This series of imperviousness layers constitutes the main status layers. They are per-pixel estimates of impermeable cover of soil (soil sealing) and are mapped as the degree of imperviousness (0-100%). Imperviousness change layers were produced as a difference between the reference years (2006-2009, 2009-2012, 2012-2015, 2015-2018 and additionally 2006-2012, to fully match the CORINE Land Cover production cycle) and are presented 1) as degree of imperviousness change (-100% -- +100%), in 20m and 100m pixel size, and 2) a classified (categorical) 20m change product.

This dataset is provided as 20 meter rasters (fully conformant with EEA reference grid) in 100 x 100 km tiles grouped according to the EEA38 countries and the United Kingdom.

More information about the product can be found here https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/high-resolution-layer-imperviousness/imperviousness-change-2015-2018.

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Date ( Creation )
2020-08-28
Date ( Publication )
2020-08-28
Edition
01.00
Identifier
copernicus_r_3035_20_m_imc-2015-2018_p_2015-2018_v01_r00
Identifier
DAT-14-en
Unique resource identifier
10.2909/e3284161-abef-4a2e-a291-cd8ce1cab54e
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
  • Land use
Keywords
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )
  • United Kingdom
  • EEA38 (from 2020)
Keywords
GEMET ( Theme )
  • built-up area
  • urban area
  • soil surface sealing
  • sealing
  • built environment
  • land use
  • land cover
  • landscape alteration
Spatial scope ( Theme )
  • European
EEA Management Plan ( Theme )
  • 2018 3.6.1
EEA topics ( Theme )
  • Buildings and construction
  • Land use
  • Soil
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
20  m
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
Begin date
2015-01-01
End date
2018-12-31
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Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
  • GeoTIFF ( 1.0 )

OnLine resource
https://image.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/GioLandPublic/HRL_ImperviousnessChange_15_18/ImageServer ( ESRI:REST )
OnLine resource
https://image.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/GioLandPublic/HRL_ImperviousnessChange_15_18/ImageServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS ( OGC:WMS )
OnLine resource
Download (requires authentication) ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
https://doi.org/10.2909/e3284161-abef-4a2e-a291-cd8ce1cab54e ( DOI )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

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

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.

IMPORTANT: Please be aware that we are currently investigating the reliability of the magnitude of imperviousness increase that was mapped for the 2015-2018 period. The change products (as mapped) show a significant increase of the speed to soil sealing/imperviousness as compared to the previous periods for which we have change data (2006-2009, 2009-2012 and 2012-2015). We are confident that the trend and the spatial pattern of the trend reflects reality, but the magnitude of the increase needs to be further investigated. See background information in the Quality section here: https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/high-resolution-layer-imperviousness/imperviousness-change-2015-2018.

The validation report of the product is available here: https://land.copernicus.eu/en/technical-library/hrl-imperviousness-2018-validation-report/@@download/file.

Source
  • Imperviousness Density 2015 (raster 20 m), Europe, 3-yearly, Marc. 2018
  • Imperviousness Density 2018 (raster 10 m), Europe, 3-yearly, Aug. 2020
File identifier
e3284161-abef-4a2e-a291-cd8ce1cab54e XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2024-12-11T16:11:56.999361Z
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 3.6.1
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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