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European river catchments

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Created 19 Aug 2008 Published 19 Aug 2008 Last modified 17 Mar 2023

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The purpose of the European river catchments (ERC) is to provide a homogeneous European catchments dataset at scale 1:1 million that can be used together with the digital topographic data of EuroGlobalMap

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Zipped geodatabase format, vector polygon

Zipped geodatabase format, vector polygon (ZIP archive)
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Zipped shapefile, vector polygon

Shapefile extracted from the ERC110708F1v1 geodatabase

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Methodology

European river catchments - Methodology

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Geographic accuracy:: 100 m
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 (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Methodology:: The European River Catchments were created using as main input the CCM River and Catchment Database (source: JRC, 2006) version 2.0, extracting watersheds order 5 (CCM2 wso5). The coastline of the European River Catchments was extracted from the EuroGlobalMap water lines dataset version 1.1 (source: Eurogeographics). Manual editing, based on different national and international information sources, was needed to obtain data consistency with EuroGlobalMap. Attributes are created partly using attributes from EuroGlobalMap. Please download the methodology document for further description.
Coordinate reference system:: EPSG:3035
Data sources: CCM River and Catchment Database, JRC/IES, copyright European Commission - JRC, 2007, http://agrienv.jrc.it/activities/catchments/. EuroGlobalMap v2.0, Eurogeographics, http://www.eurogeographics.org/. See also below under Methodology.
Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)