Shoreline

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EUROSION was a project commissioned by the General Directorate Environment of the European Commission 2002-2004. The construction of the EUROSION shoreline results from a three-step process: - a baseline shoreline for the whole European coastline has been compiled using different sources of data: (i) the first version of CORINE Coastal Erosion for EU countries as of 1990 (this version was derived from digitisation of topographical maps), (ii) SABE CoastLine at scale 1:100,000 - for countries which joined EU after 1990 and Centre East European Countries, (iii) the World Vector Shoreline (WVS) at scale 1:250,000 for some specific territories such as Crete and other greek islands, Malta, Cyprus, Baltic States and Romania. GISCO 1:1 Million is used to "connect" EU territories (e.g. Slovenia with Greece, Greece and Black Sea region) and complete ultraperipheral regions. - Comparison of the baseline shoreline with declassified LANDSAT satellite images distributed by NASA has made it possible to identify and fill data gaps (especially the delineation of estuaries and missing islands) - The baseline shoreline is then being improved locally as part of the process to produce the layer Geomorphology and geology - (see corresponding section). Improvements are based upon large scale maps (in general 1:50,000).