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Water and Wetness 2018 (raster 100 m), Europe, 3-yearly - version 2, Nov. 2020

The Copernicus High Resolution Layer Water and Wetness (WAW) 2018 is a thematic product showing the occurrence of water and wet surfaces over the period from 2012 to 2018 for the EEA38 area and the United Kingdom. This metadata refers to the 100 meter aggregate raster, provided as a full EEA38 and United Kingdom mosaic (fully conformant to with the EEA reference grid). The production of the High Resolution Water and Wetness layers was coordinated by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in the frame of the EU Copernicus programme

Two Water and Wetness products are available:

- The main Water and Wetness (WAW) product, with defined classes of (1) permanent water, (2) temporary water, (3) permanent wetness and (4) temporary wetness.

- The additional expert product: Water and Wetness Probability Index (WWPI).

The products show the occurrence of water and indicate the degree of wetness in a physical sense, assessed independently of the actual vegetation cover and are thus not limited to a specific land cover class and their relative frequencies.

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Date ( Creation )
2020-11-19
Date ( Publication )
2020-11-19
Edition
01.00
Identifier
copernicus_r_3035_100_m_waw-2018_p_2012-2018_v01_r00
Identifier
DAT-202-en
Unique resource identifier
10.2909/f6bbd22c-52e5-4e47-9b09-943415fcb52e

Point of contact

No information provided.

Point of contact

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Point of contact

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Point of contact

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Maintenance and update frequency
Continual
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ( Theme )
  • Land cover
Keywords
Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. ( Place )
  • EEA38 (from 2020)
  • United Kingdom
Keywords
GEMET ( Theme )
  • water
  • land cover
  • land use
  • forest management
  • landscape alteration
Spatial scope ( Theme )
  • European
EEA topics ( Theme )
  • Land use
EEA Management Plan ( Theme )
  • 2018 3.6.1
Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

Access to data is based on a principle of full, open and free access as established by the Copernicus data and information policy Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 of 12 July 2013. This regulation establishes registration and licensing conditions for GMES/Copernicus users.

Free, full and open access to this data set is made on the conditions that:

1. When distributing or communicating Copernicus dedicated data and Copernicus service information to the public, users shall inform the public of the source of that data and information.

2. Users shall make sure not to convey the impression to the public that the user's activities are officially endorsed by the Union.

3. Where that data or information has been adapted or modified, the user shall clearly state this.

4. The data remain the sole property of the European Union. Any information and data produced in the framework of the action shall be the sole property of the European Union. Any communication and publication by the beneficiary shall acknowledge that the data were produced “with funding by the European Union”.

Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
100  m
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
Begin date
2012-01-01
End date
2018-12-31
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Unique resource identifier
EPSG:3035
Distribution format
  • GeoTIFF ( 1.0 )

OnLine resource
https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/high-resolution-layers/water-wetness/status-maps/water-wetness-2018 ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
OnLine resource
https://doi.org/10.2909/f6bbd22c-52e5-4e47-9b09-943415fcb52e ( DOI )
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

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

The 10m classified Water and Wetness layer is aggregated to 100m for the complete European LAEA layer according to the procedure described as follows: for the aggregation of the 10m classified product to a 100m raster in a concise way, all underlying 10m cells are considered. A majority rule is applied to ensure that the most appropriate class value is given to the 100m cell,

considering all underlying 100 pixels that are covered by the 100m raster cell. The 100m cell receives the code of the majority of 10m pixels, under consideration of the fraction of valid and un-valid pixels and equality. More information about the aggregation methodology and about the product in general can be found here: https://land.copernicus.eu/user-corner/technical-library/hrl-water-and-wetness-2018-user-manual.

Quality assurance follows the ISO9000 standards for Quality Management and comprises of dedicated procedures of on-going 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 will be 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.

Source
  • 7992f641-bf77-47b7-b0c1-74fc832b78b1
File identifier
f6bbd22c-52e5-4e47-9b09-943415fcb52e XML
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2023-08-15T14:48:06.625Z
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
Land use
GEMET
forest management land cover land use landscape alteration water
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Land cover
Spatial scope
European

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