Data
Quiet areas in Europe
GIS data
Quiet areas in Europe
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Metadata
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Reporting obligations (ROD)
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- Not applicable
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Geographic accuracy:
- Grid: 100 m cells
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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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Methodology:
Suitable distance layer from noise sources built following a fuzzy approach (*), calculating the 'membership' to the quietness range (0–1) by means of a linear relationship, considering the mean value obtained as no suitable (= 0) and maximum distance obtained as suitable (= 1). The distance values between not suitable (mean value) and suitable (maximum value) will be reassigned with a new value between 0 and 1 following a linear equation.
(*) The production of threshold distance layers around noise sources has been made following a fuzzy approach rather than obtaining a buffer with sharp limits. Membership to a 0-1 range has been obtained according to a linear function.
Full methodology: Good practice guide on quiet areas.Technical report No 4/2014
http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/good-practice-guide-on-quiet-areas-
Coordinate reference system:
- EPSG:3035
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Data sources
European Topic Centre - Air Pollution and Climate Change Mitigation. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Núria Blanes; nuria.blanes@uab.cat
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Owners:
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
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Processors:
- European Topic Centre on Air pollution and Climate change mitigation (ETC/ACM)
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For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/quiet-areas-in-europe-2 or scan the QR code.
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