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Datasets
GISCO - Metropolitan Regions 2021 (MREG 2021), May 2021Geopackage
Temporal coverage: 2021
Archived or restricted datasets
GISCO - Metropolitan Regions 2021 (MREG 2021), Oct. 2020GDBArchived
Published: 18 Oct 2020
Temporal coverage: 2021
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The delineation of European mountain areas was carried out by using digital elevation models, considering different criteria combination of thresholds of altitude, climate, and topography variables (IP2008 8.2.7 Regional and territorial development of mountain areas, ETC/LUSI - EEA). The dataset covers the EEA38 member countries pluse United Kingdom, Andorra and San Marino
European Settlement Map
The European Settlement Map is a spatial raster dataset that is mapping human settlements in Europe
It offers new opportunities in Earth observation related research by allowing to study urbanisation and related features across Europe in urban and rural areas, from continental to country perspective, from regional to local, until single blocks.
European Image Mosaic
European Image Mosaic provides a seamless pan-European ortho-rectified mosaic processed from individual satellite image scenes.
European Image Mosaic has a three years update cycle and in high resolution is available for the 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015 and 2018 reference years. In very high resolution European image mosaic is available only for the 2012 and 2018 reference years (due to data availability and quality issues).
The European Image Mosaic product suite is part of the European Union’s Copernicus Land Monitoring Service.