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Environmental information systems
The series of EEA coastline datasets has been created for detailed analysis. The coastline is a hybrid product obtained from satellite imagery from two projects: EUHYDRO (Pan-European hydrographic and drainage database) and GSHHG (A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database), as well as some manual amendments to meet requirements from EU Nature Directives, Water Framework Directive and Marine Strategy Framework
Datasets
EEA coastline for analysis (polygon) - version 3.0, March 2017SHPESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 1 Mar 2017
Temporal coverage: 1995-2017
Archived or restricted datasets
EEA coastline for analysis (line) - version 2.0, Sep. 2015SHPArchived
Published: 31 Aug 2015
Temporal coverage: 1995-2012
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EEA coastline for analysis (polygon) - version 2.0, Sep. 2015SHPArchived
Published: 31 Aug 2015
Temporal coverage: 1995-2012
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EEA coastline for analysis (raw) - version 2.0, Jun. 2015SHPArchived
Temporal coverage: 1995-2012
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EEA coastline for analysis (polygon) - version 1.0, Jun. 2013SHPArchived
Temporal coverage: 1995-2012
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EEA coastline for analysis (line) - version 1.0, Jun. 2013SHPArchived
Temporal coverage: 1995-2012
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EEA coastline for analysis (raw) - version 1.0, Jun. 2013SHPArchived
Temporal coverage: 1995-2012
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EEA basemap
This Discomap web map service provides an EU-27 (2020) basemap for internal EEA use as a background layer in viewers or any other web application.
It is provided as REST and as OGC WMS services, dynamic and cached. The cached service has a custom cache at the following scales: 1/50.000.000 1/42.000.000 1/36.000.000 (Europe's size) 1/30.000.000 1/20.000.000 1/10.000.000 1/5.000.000 1/2.500.000 1/1.000.000.
EEA Reference grid
The grid is based on the recommendation at the 1st European Workshop on Reference Grids in 2003 and later INSPIRE geographical grid systems. For each country three vector polygon grid shape files, 1, 10 and 100 km, are available. The grids cover at least country borders - plus 15km buffer - and, where applicable, marine Exclusive Economic Zones v7.0 - plus 15km buffer - (www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/marbound).
Note that the extent of the grid into the marine area does not reflect the extent of the territorial waters.
EEA Administrative Boundaries
The administrative boundaries of the 38 EEA member countries and the United Kingdom layer contains various aggreation levels using the NUTS 2016 classification (Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics): country (NUTS0), NUTS1, NUTS2, and NUTS3 regions. The datasest has been created in raster format with a spatial resolution of 100m grid size, matching with the Corine Land Cover accounting layers. This dataset has been created as a reference layer for performing spatial analysis and calculating statistics at country level for the European territory as needed by accounting activities such as Land and Ecosystem Accounting (LEAC). The datasets has been derived from the EuroBoundaryMap 2020 (EBM 2020) from EuroGeographics, while coastal areas were derived from the Economic Exclusive Zone dataset version 11 (from the Flanders Marine Institute IMIS). The Eurostat GISCO database has also been used to validate/check eventual gaps in EBM 2020.