EEA coastline for analysis (raw) - version 3.0, Mar. 2017

The EEA coastline for analysis is created for highly detailed analysis, e.g. 1:100 000, for geographical Europe. The coastline is a hybrid product obtained from projects using satellite imagery as data source: EUHYDRO ( https://land.copernicus.eu/imagery-in-situ/eu-hydro ) and GSHHG ( http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/ ). The defining criteria was altitude level = 0 from EUDEM ( https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/satellite-derived-products/eu-dem/view ). Outside the coverage of the EUDEM, the coastline from GSHHG was used without modifications. A few manual amendments to the dataset were necessary to meet requirements from EU Nature Directives, Water Framework Directive and Marine Strategy Framework Directive. In 2015, several corrections were made in the Kalogeroi Islands (coordinates 38.169, 25.287) and two other Greek little islets (coordinates 36.766264, 23.604318), as well as in the peninsula of Porkkala (around coordinates 59.99, 24.42).

In this revision (v3, 2017), 2 big lagoons have been removed from Baltic region, because, according to HELCOM, are freshwater lagoons.

Date (Creation): 2017-03-28

Date (Publication): 2017-03-28

Edition: 3.0

Citation identifier: eea_v_3035_100_k_coastline-raw_1995-2012_p_v03_r00

Citation identifier: DAT-132-en

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu	Point of contact
European Environment Agency		mette.lund@eea.europa.eu irene.barrio@eea.europa.eu	Custodian

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

EEA topics

Biodiversity

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Sea regions

Keywords

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

Europe

Keywords

GEMET

coastal area
coast

EEA Management Plan

2018 2.6.1

Sous-regions marines

/Métropole
/Métropole/Manche mer du Nord
/Métropole/Mers Celtiques
/Métropole/Golfe de Gascogne
/Métropole/Méditerranée occidentale

Thématiques - SIMM

/Etat du Milieu/Littoral

Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS

/Données administratives

Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS

/Données dérivées/Références statistiques

Use limitation: 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 ( http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright ).

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations to public access

Code: https://land.copernicus.eu/imagery-in-situ/eu-hydro

Association Type: Source

Code: https://land.copernicus.eu/imagery-in-situ/eu-hydro

Association Type: Source

Code

Association Type: Source

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 100000

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Oceans
Elevation

Begin date: 1995-08-01

End date: 2012-12-31

Unique resource identifier

Distribution format

Name	Version
SHP	1.0

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
EEA:FILEPATH	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_3035_100_k_coastline-raw_1995-2012_p_v03_r00/Europe_coastline_raw_rev2017.shp
ESRI:REST	https://marine.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Marine/EEA_coastline_v2017/MapServer	EEA coastline for analysis - version 3.0, March 2017
OGC:WMS	https://marine.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Marine/EEA_coastline_v2017/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS
WWW:URL	https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/db4cfdd3-0687-4460-a2c7-fd10ca29c214	Direct download

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Statement: The criteria for defining the coastline is the line separating water from land. The EEA coastline is a product derived from two sources: EUHYDRO ( https://land.copernicus.eu/imagery-in-situ/eu-hydro ) and GSHHG ( http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/ ) A priority defined in the input data, first EUHYDRO geometry and, as auxiliary data, GSHHG dataset. The EUHYDRO do not cover the required extension of EEA coastline. The EUHYDRO gaps are in Iceland, Canarias, Madeira, Azores, small islands (not represented in EUDEM) and the northern of Black Sea. For that reason, the GSHHG dataset is an input for the process which allow to populate the EUHYDRO shapefile.

The creation process was focused on generate the coastline as line datasets and, later, as secondary product, defining the polygon layer sea-land. Thank reiterative processes based on conversion (from water mask of EUHYDRO to polygon), selection, dissolving and conversion (to line) tools, it was possible to obtain a continuous and homogeneous coastline. The fundamental step into the workflow was the selection of sea features using the water mask polygon (with 255 value into EUHYDRO datasets). The inland water bodies (freshwaters) are rejected by these criteria, except the water bodies connected, at least by one point, to the sea (it is the cases of some transitional water bodies).

Two Baltic lagoons have been modified with the data from SVAR geodatabase version 2012_2, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI).

The patchwork coastline has been subjected to quality assessment based on evaluate the degree of coverage and topological errors.

Source

Metadata

File identifier: db4cfdd3-0687-4460-a2c7-fd10ca29c214 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2024-06-12T10:44:53.480151Z

Metadata standard name: ISO 19115/19139

Metadata standard version: 1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu	Point of contact

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