Fragmentation increase in Europe during 2009-2015

Figure Created 30 Jul 2019 Published 03 Dec 2019 Last modified 02 Aug 2019

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The map shows the difference of the years 2015 and 2009 and presents the increase in fragmentation in that period. The original 100m values were resampled to a 5 km grid for visualisation purposes.

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Temporal coverage:: 2009-2015
Tags:: land use , biodiversity , fragmentation
Geographic coverage:: Albania , Austria , Belgium , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Croatia , Cyprus , Czechia , Denmark , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Iceland , Ireland , Italy , Kosovo , Latvia , Liechtenstein , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Malta , Montenegro , Netherlands , North Macedonia , Norway , Poland , Portugal , Romania , Serbia , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Sweden , Switzerland , Turkey , United Kingdom
Methodology:: Fragmentation as a result of urban and transport infrastructure expansion is monitored using the Copernicus Imperviousness and the TeleAtlas road network datasets.
Units:: Percentage (of 2009 values)
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).
Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
Figure type:: Map

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The map presents fragmentation increase after outliers have been removed (less than 5 percentile and more than 90 percentile). Fragmentation was calculated for the years 2009, 2012 and 2015 using the effective mesh size method.

The map covers the EEA-39 member countries. Due to poor data coverage of fragmentation geometries for this period the following countries have been omitted: Cyprus, Iceland, Albania, Kosovo, Serbia, Cyprus, North Macedonia, Romania, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Turkey.

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Copernicus Land Monitoring Service - High Resolution Layers - Imperviousness The high resolution imperviousness products capture the percentage and change of soil sealing. Built-up areas are characterized by the substitution of the original (semi-) natural land cover or water surface with an artificial, often impervious cover. These artificial surfaces are usually maintained over long periods of time. A series of high resolution imperviousness datasets (for the 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2015 reference years) with all artificially sealed areas was produced using automatic derivation based on calibrated Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). This series of imperviousness layers constitutes the main status layers. They are per-pixel estimates of impermeable cover of soil (soil sealing) and are mapped as the degree of imperviousness (0-100%). Imperviousness change layers were produced as a difference between the reference years (2006-2009, 2009-2012, 2012-2015 and additionally 2006-2012, to fully match the CORINE Land Cover production cycle) and are presented 1) as degree of imperviousness change (-100% -- +100%), in 20m and 100m pixel size, and 2) a classified (categorical) 20m change product.

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The European environment — state and outlook 2020 Knowledge for transition to a sustainable Europe

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