Irish Spatial Data Exchange
Riparian Zones 2012 – Land Use Land Cover
The European Environment Agency, as lead authority under the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, co-ordinate the development of high resolution “local component” or “hot spot monitoring” datasets. Comparable data is produced across Europe using earth observation methods developed in partnership with private industry. The Environmental Protection Agency, as members of the European network EIONET, provides data quality assessments and disseminates the data for Ireland.
The Riparian Zones 2012 Land Use Land Cover dataset has full wall to wall coverage of land use and land cover class within riparian areas that lie within a dynamic buffer of a Strahler Level 3 Rivers and above. Riparian zones represent transitional areas occurring between land and freshwater ecosystems, characterised by distinctive hydrology, soil and biotic conditions and strongly influenced by the stream water. They provide a wide range of riparian functions (e.g. chemical filtration, flood control, bank stabilization, aquatic life and riparian wildlife support, etc.) and ecosystem services. The dataset uses the MAES classification and further product information can be found <a href=" https://land.copernicus.eu/user-corner/technical-library/RZ_CS3_17_Nomenclature_Guideline_I30.pdf"> here. </a> It is worth noting that under the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service there are plans for future updates of this data.
Simple
- Alternate title
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Riparian Zones 2012 (LULC)
- Date (Publication)
- 2015-08-08T00:00:00
- Citation identifier
- LC.IE.EPA.COPERNIUS_RIPARIANZONES_LULC
- Purpose
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The data aims to support the objectives of several European legal acts and policy initiatives, such as the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, the Habitats and Birds Directives and the Water Framework Directive.
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
Distributor European Environment Agency under the framework of Copernicus
Originator
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
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GemetInspireTheme
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Land cover
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GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1
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land
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land use
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land cover
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Riparian Zone
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Environmental Protection Agency
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Copernicus
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Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
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CLMS
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EEA
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Local Component
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Hot Spot Monitoring
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ISO 3166
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IE
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- Use limitation
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Data was produced with funding by the European Union. Copyright Copernicus Programme
Access to data is based on a principle of full, open and free access as established by the Copernicus data and information policy Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 of 12 July 2013. This regulation establishes registration and licensing conditions for GMES/Copernicus users and can be found here. Free, full and open access to this data set is made on the conditions that:
1. When distributing or communicating Copernicus dedicated data and Copernicus service information to the public, users shall inform the public of the source of that data and information.
2. Users shall make sure not to convey the impression to the public that the user's activities are officially endorsed by the Union.
3. Where that data or information has been adapted or modified, the user shall clearly state this.
4. The data remain the sole property of the European Union. Any information and data produced in the framework of the action shall be the sole property of the European Union. Any communication and publication by the beneficiary shall acknowledge that the data were produced “with funding by the European Union”.
DISCLAIMER:
The Environmental Protection Agency has undertaken to distribute the data on behalf of EEA under Specific Contract No 3436/R0-Copernicus/EEA.56990 implementing Framework service contract No EEA/IDM/R0/16/009/Ireland. The Environmental Protection Agency accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to the content and use of these data.
The European Environment Agency accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to the information on this site and the information does not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the EEA or other European Communities bodies and institutions.
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Data is for public use under Creative Commons CC-By 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- License
- Other constraints
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Denominator
- 50000
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
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- Begin date
- 2006-01-01T00:00:00
- End date
- 2012-01-01T00:00:00
Vertical extent
- Minimum value
- 0
- Maximum value
- 1014
Vertical CS
Vertical datum
- Reference system identifier
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EPSG
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http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/2157
EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset 2009-11-25
- Distribution format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
10.x
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
GIS Team
Publisher
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name text/html
https://gis.epa.ie/GetData/Download Download data
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https://land.copernicus.eu/ Copernicus Land Monitoring Service Website
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https://land.copernicus.eu/local/riparian-zones EEA Complete Riparian Zones Data & Metadata
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https://land.copernicus.eu/user-corner/technical-library/RZ_CS3_17_Nomenclature_Guideline_I30.pdf Riparian Zones Product Specification
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Data Specification on Land cover
- Alternate title
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INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0
- Date (Publication)
- 2013-12-10
- Explanation
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The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.
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- No
Conformance result
- Title
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Explanation
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Level of conformance with the COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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- No
- Statement
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The Riparian Zones Land Cover/Land Use (LC/LU) classification is tailored to the needs of biodiversity monitoring in a tailored buffer zone along large and medium-sized European rivers (with Strahler levels 3-8 derived from EU-Hydro). LC/LU is extracted from VHR satellite data and other available data in a buffer zone of selected rivers (Strahler 3+). The classes follow the pre-defined nomenclature on the basis of MAES typology of ecosystems (Level 1 to Level 4) and Corine Land Cover, providing 80 distinct thematic classes with a Minimum Mapping Unit (MMU) of 0.5 ha and a Minimum Mapping Width (MMW) of 10 m.
The method is a Semi-automatic classification of 1.5m VHR2 SPOT-6 and 2.5m VHR2 SPOT-5 HRG satellite data from the DWH_MG2b_CORE_03 dataset (Optical VHR2 coverage over EU 2011-2013 and Riparian zones) and computer assisted visual refinement. Subsequently intersection of classification results with additional data (CLC 2006/2012, GIO HRL Tree Cover Density, Urban Atlas 2006/2012).
The EPA quality assessment is that overall the data has a good overall accuracy, the data has a high resolution data with good national coverage. The national verification team found some minor issues with classification and delineation but overall there is potential for use in national assessments.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 1dfdb651-d4b9-457f-a8fe-c3434d1fa161 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2019-02-14T12:32:01Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISDI Metadata Profile
- Metadata standard version
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1.2
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Environmental Protection Agency
Data Analyst
Point of contact
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