Elevation breakdown

Topics: Coasts and seas ,

The Elevation breakdown is used to allocate land cover changes into homogeneous areas as function of height, slope and distance to the sea

GIS data

Elevation breakdown raster 1 km (zipped TIFF file)

ebk1km.zip (ZIP archive)
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Methodology

Elevation breakdown methodology, pdf version

elevationbreakdown_040906.pdf (PDF document)
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Additional information

It defines five relief typologies: 1) low coasts, 2) high coasts, 3) inlands, 4) uplands and 4) mountains. The enumeration corresponds to values in the grid.

Relation:: Parent data set: Reference grid for Land cover accounts (LEAC); Parent data set: Corine land cover 2000 coastline
Publish date:: 15 Nov 2007
Last upload:: 23 Aug 2006
Geographical coverage:: EU25, EU27, EU12, EU15, Albania, Andorra, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Switzerland
Geographic accuracy:: 1 000 m
Tags:: LEAC | mountain | geospatial data | elevation | raster data
Scale of the data set:: 1:1000000
Rights:: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency.
Methodology:: This version of the Elevation breakdown was created using the LEAC 1 km grid as reference system. Areas next to the sea (less than10 km from the coastline) are considered Coasts and split in two categories: Low coasts (less than 50 m) and High coasts (more than 50 m). Inlands are the areas between 0 and 200 m outside the coastal strip. Uplands are the zones between 200 - 500 m plus the flat areas between 500 and 1000. The slopy areas between 500 and 1000 m and all the areas over 1000 m are classified as Mountains (see enclosed PDF file for further details). This grid contains all the 1 km reference grid cells that intersect with CLC data including intertidal flats and estuaries. The reference coastline used to define the distance to the coast was created ommiting the intertidal flats and estuaries. This is the reason why in some areas the coastal strip can be wider than 10 km.
Coordinate reference system:: EPSG:3035
Owners:: European Environment Agency
Processors:: The European Topic Centre on Land Use and Spatial Information