European Monitoring of Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes (EMBAL)
European Monitoring of Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes (EMBAL) is a project was commissioned by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV). It is a LUCAS-compatible field survey that visits 500 × 500m plots chosen from a 2 × 2 km grid across all EU-27 during the peak phenological period. In each campaign it records land-cover, landscape elements, habitat types, plot-scale biodiversity and pollination resources.This EMBAL viewer provides access to EMBAL data and plots without georeferenced information or the field photographs collected by surveyors.
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About this resource
- Alternate Identifier
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12a37edf-6594-4ba2-bbb4-52d6c12e3bf0
- Publication Date
- 2025-09-15
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European Monitoring of Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes (EMBAL)
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EMBAL
- Abstract
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European Monitoring of Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes (EMBAL) is a project was commissioned by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV). It is a LUCAS-compatible field survey that visits 500 × 500m plots chosen from a 2 × 2 km grid across all EU-27 during the peak phenological period. In each campaign it records land-cover, landscape elements, habitat types, plot-scale biodiversity and pollination resources.This EMBAL viewer provides access to EMBAL data and plots without georeferenced information or the field photographs collected by surveyors.
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English
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- Keywords (NA)
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agriculture
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biodiversity
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Geographic Coverage
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European Union
Bounding Box
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-25.00
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45.00
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72.00
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26.00
Temporal Coverage
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2022-09-15
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2023-09-15
License Information
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According to the European Commission reuse notice, reuse is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by the Decision of 12 December 2011. The general principle of reuse can be subject to conditions which may be specified in individual copyright notices. Therefore users are advised to refer to the copyright notices of the individual websites maintained under Europa and of the individual documents. Reuse is not applicable to documents subject to intellectual property rights of third parties.
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European Commission reuse notice
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Online
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European Monitoring of Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes (EMBAL)
Distribution
Online
- A brief description of the the content of online URL.
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EMBAL toolkit
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1,2,3 (2026): European Monitoring of Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes (EMBAL). European Commission, Joint Research Centre [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.H0E5N7G PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/723355a8-e549-4691-9c0d-83ab7fc7a0c4
