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EEA coastline for analysis

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Prod-ID: DAT-132-en
Created 11 Dec 2018 Published 11 Dec 2018 Last modified 11 Dec 2018
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The EEA coastline dataset has been created for detailed analysis (e.g.:1/100000) for geographical Europe. 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 Directive. In 2015, several corrections were made in the Kalogeroi Islands and two other Greek little islets, as well as in the peninsula of Porkkala. In this revision from 2017, two big lagoons have been removed from Baltic region, because, according to HELCOM, are freshwater lagoons.

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Derived data set:  MSFD regions and subregions
Derived data set:  Environmental Accounting Reference Layers - SDI
Derived data set:  Regional seas around Europe
information.png Scale of the data set:
1:100000
information.png 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).
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information.png Methodology:

A priority was defined in the input data: first EU-Hydro geometry and, as auxiliary data, GSHHG dataset. The coastline of EU-Hydro represents the separation of land and water detected from Image2006 scenes. The status of the tidal wave depends on the date and time of the cloud-free scene used in Image 2006. The EU-Hydro do not cover the geographical requirements for EEA coastline. The EU-Hydro gaps are in Iceland, Canarias, Madeira, Azores, small islands (not represented in EU-DEM) and the northern Black Sea.

The creation process was focused on generating the coastline as line dataset and, later, as a secondary product, defining the polygon layer sea-land. The fundamental step of the workflow was the selection of sea features using a water mask polygon (value in EU-Hydro datasets = 255). The inland water bodies (fresh water) are rejected by this criteria, except the water bodies connected, at least by one point, to the sea (it is the case of some transitional water bodies). A few manual amendments to the dataset were necessary to meet the requirements from EU Nature Directives, Water Framework Directive and Marine Strategy Framework Directive. The line dataset consists of one single line for the whole coastline. The polygon dataset was derived from the parent line dataset by adding two straight lines, one North-to-South, at the East-most part of the parent dataset, and the second one West-to-East, at the South–most part of the parent dataset. The two straight lines are taken from the NGA-derived coastline produced by the ETC-BD in 2008.

information.png Coordinate reference system:
EPSG:3035
information.png Data sources

EU-Hydro is a european-wide hydrological reference data set currently being developed under the Copernicus, http://www.copernicus.eu/, the European Earth Observation Programme.

GSHHG, "A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database", http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg

NGA coastline, Coastline features from the National Geospatial-Intelligency Agency (NGA).

information.png Owners:
European Environment Agency (EEA)
information.png Processors:
European Environment Agency (EEA)
 

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Data MSFD regions and subregions The present map provides the spatial extent of MSFD regions and subregions, as agreed by the MSFD Committee in November 2016. In the Marine Strategy Framework Directive - MSFD (Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 establishing a framework for community action in the field of marine environmental policy), four marine regions are listed (Article 4): Baltic Sea, North-east Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea
Data Regional seas around Europe The regional seas around Europe are the Baltic Sea, the Barents Sea, the Black Sea, the Iceland Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, the North-east Atlantic Ocean, the Norwegian Sea, and the White Sea. The regional seas are harmonised with existing boundaries established under the Regional Sea Conventions (OSPAR, HELCOM, Barcelona, and Bucharest Convention) and MSFD regions and subregions, as agreed by the Marine Strategy Framework Directive Committee in November 2016.
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Environmental Accounting Reference Layers - SDI This is a collection of the geospatial Environmental Accounting Reference Layers of the Integrated Data Platform published on the website and registered in EEA`s Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI). The link under "GIS data" points to the SDI thematic node on Environmental Accounting Reference Layers.

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