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Common European Chorological Grid Reference System (CGRS)

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Created 23 Oct 2003 Published 23 Oct 2003 Last modified 20 Mar 2023

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Topics: Biodiversity — Ecosystems Policy instruments

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In year 2000 representatives of the atlas groups mapping the European vascular plants, mammals, birds, amphibians, reptiles, fungi and invertebrates agreed to use the CGRS as a common grid for species distribution mapping. The CGRS grid is modified from the Military Grid Reference System (MGRS). The MGRS itself is an alphanumeric version of a numerical UTM (Universal Transverse Mercator) or UPS (Universal Polar Stereographic) grid coordinate.

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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:

see http://www.luomus.fi/english/botany/afe/index.htm

Units:

Grid size 50 km x 50 km

Coordinate reference system:

EPSG:4326

Data sources

Atlas Florae Europaeae (AFE), https://www.luomus.fi/en/utm-mgrs-atlas-florae-europaeae.

Hosted by the Finnish Museum of Natural History, LUOMUS.

Owners:

European Environment Agency (EEA)

Processors:

European Topic Centre on Biological Diversity (ETC/BD)

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