EO:EEA:DAT:HRL:IMP SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics Olivier Martin Data Manager olivier.martin@sib.swiss United Kingdom EEA38 (from 2020) EEA39 Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. Buildings and construction Soil Land use Buildings and construction Land use Soil EEA topics land cover urban area sealing soil surface sealing built-up area land use built environment landscape alteration built-up area urban area soil surface sealing sealing built environment land use land cover landscape alteration GEMET Land cover Land use Land cover Land use GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 European Spatial scope European Environment Agency sdi@eea.europa.eu 2025-09-22 The High Resolution Layer Imperviousness product maps the spatial distribution and dynamics of artificially sealed and built-up areas across Europe. It includes two main datasets: Imperviousness Density, which gives a percentage of sealed surfaces per pixel, and its binary sub-class Impervious Built-Up. Density and classfied change datasets as well as aggregated layers, such as Share of Built-Up, are available for both main datasets. The product has an update cycle of three years. It is available from the 2006 reference year onwards for the Imperviousness Density datasets and from the 2018 reference year onwards for the Impervious Built-Up datasets. High Resolution Layer Imperviousness product is part of the European Union’s Copernicus Land Monitoring Service. eng no limitations to public access https://inspire.ec.europa.eu/metadata-codelist/LimitationsOnPublicAccess/noLimitations Copernicus Land Portal https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/high-resolution-layer-imperviousness?tab=overview -67.00 61.00 72.00 -18.00 2005-01-01 2021-12-31