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Pan-European High Resolution Image Mosaic 2018 - False Colour, Coverage 1 (10 m), Sept. 2019

The pan-European High Resolution (HR) Image Mosaic 2018 provides cloud-free high resolution false colour imagery for EEA39 countries. The mosaic has been produced using Sentinel-2 data in 10 meter resolution, at a Sentinel 2 tile level, and consists of 1079 Sentinel-2 tiles. The imagery for each state is acquired within a predefined window corresponding to the vegetation season in 2018.

The false colour composite consists of a three band stack and includes the following bands:

Band 8 – NIR (0.842 μm)

Band 4 – Red (0.665 μm)

Band 3 – Green (0.560 μm)

The mosaic primarily is used as input data in the production of various Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) datasets and services, such as land cover maps and high resolution layers on land cover characteristic and can be also useful for CLMS users for visualizations and classifications on land.

Since the pan-European High Resolution Mosaic 2018 is created exclusively from Sentinel-2 data, the imagery can be downloaded from The Copernicus Open Access Hub (mission ongoing since 2015) at https://scihub.copernicus.eu/. Global Sentinel-2 Image Mosaics Hub at https://land.copernicus.eu/imagery-in-situ/global-image-mosaics/ can be also used to automatically create mosaics over the area of interest.

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Date ( Creation )
2019-09-05T00:00:00
Date ( Publication )
2019-09-05T00:00:00
Edition
01.00
Identifier
copernicus_r_3035_10_m_hrim-fc-cov1-2018_p_2017-2019_v01_r00
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
As needed
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Orthoimagery
Keywords
Keywords
GEMET ( Theme )
  • satellite image
  • raster
  • mosaic
  • environmental policy
  • general
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )
  • EEA38 (from 2020)
  • United Kingdom
Spatial scope ( Theme )
  • European
Temporal resolution ( Temporal )
  • As needed
EEA topics ( Theme )
  • Land use
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
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
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Begin date
2017-01-01
End date
2019-12-31
Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
  • GeoTIFF ( )

OnLine resource
https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/european-image-mosaic/high-resolution-image-mosaic-2018-false-colour-10m ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
https://image.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/GioLand/HRIM_HR_FalseColour_2018/ImageServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS ( OGC:WMS )
OnLine resource
https://image.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/GioLand/HRIM_HR_FalseColour_2018/ImageServer ( ESRI:REST )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

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

Presence of perennial snow and glaciers is to be expected in products.

Haze: acceptability assessed by EEA.

The sun elevation angle is higher than 20° to ensure sufficient illumination and to minimize the effect of shadows

The off-nadir viewing angle is less than 25°.

Pixel alignment: The values of the coordinates for the upper-left corner (x and y) of the upper-left pixel of an image dataset shall be an integer multiple of the pixel size (resolution) in the corresponding direction (x and y)

Time window:

A narrow time window for the 2018 growing season was respected where possible. If too many clouds, gaps, or cloud shadow artefacts were observed in the tile, the time window was extended to utilize a slightly wider time window. This was fully utilized in Iceland and the UK and Ireland. Various other tiles within the dataset were also processed using the wide time window. Iceland was an extreme case, and around Vatnajökull National Park data from 2017 was used to gapfill. In this area the 2018 composite was overlayed on top of a clearest image from 2017 to avoid no-data gaps. The 2017 and 2019 data usage is minimal throughout the coverage.

File identifier
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Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2025-02-25T10:42:53.389053Z
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 topics
Land use
GEMET
environmental policy general mosaic raster satellite image
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Orthoimagery
Spatial scope
European

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