HRL Grasslands

High Resolution Layer Grasslands products map the location and size of permanent and temporary grasslands, in addition to providing information on mowing events across the EEA38. These products are all offered at high resolution and include annual status layers. Change layers are also available, showing grassland vegetation gain and loss in 3-yearly updates. The products are designed to be used by researchers, policymakers, farmers, or anyone else who stands to benefit from monitoring the state of grassland ecosystems in Europe. Key application areas range from implementation or monitoring of various European Union (EU) policies such as the Habitats Directive or the Common Agriculture Policy, to contributing to research on how climate change is impacting grassland ecosystems. The products were initially on a 3-year update cycle, producing reference year 2015. From reference year 2017 and onwards the products are produced annually, except change layers which will remain on a 3-year update cycle. High Resolution Layer Grasslands product is part of the European Union’s Copernicus Land Monitoring Service.

IdentificationAbout this resource

Alternate Identifier: EO:EEA:DAT:HRL:GRA

Publication Date: 2025-01-21

Title: HRL Grasslands

Abstract: High Resolution Layer Grasslands products map the location and size of permanent and temporary grasslands, in addition to providing information on mowing events across the EEA38. These products are all offered at high resolution and include annual status layers. Change layers are also available, showing grassland vegetation gain and loss in 3-yearly updates. The products are designed to be used by researchers, policymakers, farmers, or anyone else who stands to benefit from monitoring the state of grassland ecosystems in Europe. Key application areas range from implementation or monitoring of various European Union (EU) policies such as the Habitats Directive or the Common Agriculture Policy, to contributing to research on how climate change is impacting grassland ecosystems. The products were initially on a 3-year update cycle, producing reference year 2015. From reference year 2017 and onwards the products are produced annually, except change layers which will remain on a 3-year update cycle. High Resolution Layer Grasslands product is part of the European Union’s Copernicus Land Monitoring Service.

Dataset Language: eng

Metadata Provider: SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics - Olivier Martin (Data Manager)

Dataset Contact: European Environment Agency

Keywords (Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.)

EEA38 (from 2020)
United Kingdom
EEA39

Keywords (EEA topics)

Biodiversity
Land use
Nature

Keywords (GEMET)

land use
landscape alteration
forest management
land cover
mowing
agricultural method
grassland

Keywords (GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0)

Land cover
Land use

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European

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Bounding Box

West Bounding Coordinate: 55.2087

East Bounding Coordinate: 55.8416

North Bounding Coordinate: -20.8656

South Bounding Coordinate: -21.3949

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Range of Dates

Begin Date: 2010-01-01

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Resource License

License Name: no limitations to public access

URL: https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/metadata-codelist/LimitationsOnPublicAccess/noLimitations

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Online

A brief description of the the content of online URL.: Copernicus Land Monitoring Service

URL: https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/high-resolution-layer-grasslands

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