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Points Of Interest - Cult elements contains point elements relating to the cult, namely churchs (anglican, catholic, orthodox, protestant), mosques, synanogues, buddhist temples, chapels, abbeys, priories and other religious buildings or small monuments in Belgium.
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The DTM 1m, digital terrain model at 1m-resolution, is a homogeneous and regular point grid indicating the height of the ground level in order to model its surface, without taking into account objects on the surface such as buildings and vegetation. DTM 1m is achieved by interpolating in Lambert 2008 source data in Lambert 72 and at a 1m-resolution from the Flemish (2013-2015) and Brussels (2021) Regions, and by adding Lambert 2008 data at 1m-resolution from the Walloon Region (2021-2022).
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The DTM 5m, digital terrain model at 5m-resolution, is a homogeneous and regular point grid indicating the height of the ground level in order to model its surface, without taking into account objects on the surface such as buildings and vegetation. The DTM 5m is the result of the assembly of different data coming from various sources and with different coordinate systems and resolutions. The DTM 1m is achieved by interpolating in Lambert 2008 source data in Lambert 72 and at a 1m-resolution from the Flemish (2013-2015) and Brussels (2021) regions, and by adding Lambert 2008 data at 1m-resolution from the Walloon Region (2021-2022). The DTM 5m is obtained by resampling of the DTM 1m. In addition, the DTM 5m is improved and updated internally using direct photogrammetric surveys based on the most recent aerial photographs.
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The European Urban Atlas provides reliable, inter-comparable, high-resolution land use and land cover data for 800 Functional Urban Area (FUA) for the 2012 reference year in EEA39 countries. This datasets contains the FUA for Belgium (Antwerpen, Brugge, Bruxelles_Brussel, Charleroi, Gent, Kortrijk, Leuven, Liege, Mons, Namur and Oostende).
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The product is made of 6 "high resolution layers" covering all the Belgian territory as part of a European-wide coverage. The 6 layers concern 6 distinct themes: Imperviousness, Tree cover density, Forest type, Permanent grasslands, Wetlands and Permanent waterbodies. The 6 layers were produced by an automatic classification based on satellite images and collateral data and achieved by private companies (EEA service providers), and they were verified and enhanced by Belgium. At the Belgian level, verification and enhancements were made by AGIV for the northern part and SPW for the southern part. The NGI coordinated the project.
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This dataset contains the most recent orthophoto mosaics for the Belgian territory. Orthophotos are aerial photographs that have been geometrically corrected (orthorectification) to eliminate distortions caused, among other things, by terrain, the camera lens and the camera viewing angle. As a result, they have accurate geometry and can be used for cartography, measurements and visual analysis, among other applications. The orthophoto data are provided by the Belgian administrative Regions and integrated by the National Geographic Institute (NGI) into a single national coverage. The transitions between the orthophotos from the different Regions are carefully adjusted to create a seamless and visually homogeneous whole. The dataset is updated annually with the most recent orthophoto data. The aim is to provide complete national orthophoto coverage every year. However, not every year provides complete coverage of Belgium. In such cases, the national coverage is supplemented with orthophotos from previous years. The dataset is updated in phases. For the 2026 edition, orthophoto tiles for Wallonia are currently available. The data for Flanders will be added as soon as they become available. The 2026 data can currently be downloaded, but have not yet been included in the WMS/WMTS web services. All orthophotos are colour images (RGB). The ground sampling distance (GSD) is 25 cm in Wallonia and 12.5 cm in Flanders and the Brussels-Capital Region. Since 2026, the orthophoto mosaics have been divided into tiles according to the NGI 25K grid, a fixed geographical grid covering the Belgian territory. The data can be downloaded as compressed JPEG2000 files (JP2), together with the corresponding world file (.j2w) and metadata describing the extent. The dataset is INSPIRE-compliant.
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This is the discovery service for the metadata which are made available by the Belgian federal government. It only contains the resources which have been declared for the INSPIRE reporting, i.e. the resources which contain the keyword “reporting INSPIRE”.
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INSPIRE compliant discovery service for geographic information made available by the Belgian Federal Government.
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Whole of marks whose height with respect to the zero mark of the second general leveling is known.
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The data set contains a seamless polygonal layer representing the land cover in Belgium for the year 2006 and the year 2012. The polygons are spread over 32 classes from the CORINE Land Cover legend which are present un Belgium. The minimum map unit is 25 ha. The conceptual scale is 1:100 000. The data set also contains a polygon layer showing changes of more than 5 ha in the land cover between 2006 and 2012.
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