Grassland 2015 (raster 100 m), Europe, 3-yearly, Apr. 2018

The main high resolution grassland product is the Grassland layer, a grassland/non-grassland mask for the EEA39. This grassy and non-woody vegetation baseline product includes all kinds of grasslands: managed grassland, semi-natural grassland and natural grassy vegetation. It is a binary status layer for the 2015 reference year mapping grassland and all non-grassland areas in 20m and (aggregated) 100m pixel size and for the 2018 reference year - in 10m and (aggregated) 100m pixel size. The production of the high resolution grassland layers was coordinated by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in the frame of the EU Copernicus programme.

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ccdc1b47-5e01-4ce2-a91d-a7fddc2d72c8

Publication Date
2018-04-09
Title

Grassland 2015 (raster 100 m), Europe, 3-yearly, Apr. 2018

Short Name

Grassland 2015 (raster 100 m)

Abstract

The main high resolution grassland product is the Grassland layer, a grassland/non-grassland mask for the EEA39. This grassy and non-woody vegetation baseline product includes all kinds of grasslands: managed grassland, semi-natural grassland and natural grassy vegetation. It is a binary status layer for the 2015 reference year mapping grassland and all non-grassland areas in 20m and (aggregated) 100m pixel size and for the 2018 reference year - in 10m and (aggregated) 100m pixel size. The production of the high resolution grassland layers was coordinated by the European Environment Agency (EEA) in the frame of the EU Copernicus programme.

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English

 
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Keywords (EEA keyword list)

  • Copernicus

  • High resolution layer

Keywords (GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0)

  • Land cover

Keywords (EEA topics)

  • Land use

Keywords (GEMET)

  • Forest management

  • Grassland

  • Land cover

  • Land use

  • Landscape alteration

Keywords (Spatial scope)

  • European

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

  • EEA39

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

Europe

Bounding Box

West Bounding Coordinate

-31.27

East Bounding Coordinate

-13.42

North Bounding Coordinate

66.57

South Bounding Coordinate

27.64

Bounding Altitudes

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Maximum
Unit

Geographic Coverage

Geographic Description

Europe

Bounding Box

West Bounding Coordinate

-10.62

East Bounding Coordinate

44.82

North Bounding Coordinate

71.19

South Bounding Coordinate

34.56

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Maximum
Unit

Temporal Coverage

Range of Dates

Begin Date

2014-01-01

End Date

2016-12-31

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Intellectual Rights

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.

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No limitations to public access

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

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Copernicus Land Monitoring Service Website (requires authentication)

URL
https://land.copernicus.eu/en/products/high-resolution-layer-grassland/grassland-2015#download

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Online

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Product Information and Technical Documentation

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

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Online

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ArcGIS REST Services Directory

URL
https://image.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/GioLandPublic/HRL_Grassland_2015/MapServer

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Online

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EEA geospatial data catalogue

URL
https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/copernicus/api/records/b77b7ce3-04f8-44ae-aaae-b5e5af0f9682?language=all
 
 

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Methods

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Thematic accuracy: The thematic accuracy assessment will be made on the primary layer, the grassland mask. The target will be set at 85 % to be achieved within each biogeographic region. A quantitative approach will be used based on a set of stratified random point samples compared to external datasets (e.g. GoogleEarth, national orthophotos or national grassland datasets). Achieved overall accuracy: 96.66%. Geometric accuracy (positioning accuracy): Less than half a pixel. According to ortho-rectified satellite image base delivered by ESA.

Citation

Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (2018).Grassland 2015 (raster 100 m), Europe, 3-yearly, Apr. 2018. European Environment Agency https://doi.org/10.2909/b77b7ce3-04f8-44ae-aaae-b5e5af0f9682

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1.0

 
 

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Data Format

Externally Defined Format

Format Name

GeoTIFF