Date (Creation)

2026-02-26

Date (Revision)

2026-02-26

Citation identifier

BE.NGI-IGN / 38510297-4856-11f1-a9f0-847b573ec00f

Status

Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Geographic Institute	Charlotte Gilon	products@ngi.be	Custodian

Maintenance and update frequency

Biannually

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Elevation

Belgian Federal Thesaurus

• Federal viewer
• Geology and physical relief

Data.gov.be themes

• Environment

INSPIRE feature concept dictionary

• Elevation Grid Coverage

GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01

• federal government
• relief (land)
• altitude

Spatial scope

• National

Keywords

• hillshade, altitude, digital terrain model

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

•The custodian of the resource holds the rights of property (including the rights of intellectual property) to the geographic files

•The custodian grants the user the right to use the data for his internal use.

•Commercial use of the data under any form is strictly forbidden

•Custodian’s name must be mentioned each time the data are being used publically.

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

No limitations on public access

Use limitation

•The custodian of the resource holds the rights of property (including the rights of intellectual property) to the geographic files

•The custodian grants the user the right to use the data for his internal use.

•Commercial use of the data under any form is strictly forbidden

•Custodian’s name must be mentioned each time the data are being used publically.

Spatial representation type

Grid

Distance

5  m

Language

English

Character set

8859 Part 15

Topic category

• Elevation

Description

Belgium

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:3812

Distribution format

Name	Version
TIFF
Esri Geodatabase

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

The product Hillshade DTM 5m is a shaded slope view based on regional elevation data compiled and updated in the form of a digital terrain model (DTM) with a 5m resolution.

The source data used to produce this DTM are the DTM at a 1m-resolution from the regions: data from Digitaal Vlaanderen (former AIV and former AGIV) for the Flemish Region, data from the SPW for the Walloon Region and data from Paradigm for the Region of Brussels-Capital. These regional DSM are derived from the clouds of points obtained during the LiDAR campaign (flight of 9 October 2021 for Brussels, from 19 February 2021 to 5 March 2022 for Wallonia and from 20 February 2013 to 20 April 2015 for Flanders).

The DTM 5m is improved and updated internally using direct photogrammetric surveys based on the most recent aerial photographs. The DTM 5m consists of a compilation of the best available data, and these are constantly updated and improved.

To create this representation, we have used the following parameters:

- Azimut: 315° (angle of the fictitious light source relative to the north)

- Angle: 45° (angle of the fictitious light source above the horizon)

Slope shading views allow the creation of a graphic shading effect that gives an idea of the terrain relief on cartographic representations.

LiDAR data coming from regions do not stop at borders, the coverage of the data extends beyond the limits of Belgium and offers a buffer of variable size all around Belgium.

Metadata

File identifier

38510297-4856-11f1-a9f0-847b573ec00f XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Parent identifier

DTM 5m

24b4a487-484e-11f1-a0b1-847b573ec00f

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2026-06-17T15:16:58

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Geographic Institute	Floor Van Damme	metadata@ngi.be	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
French
Dutch; Flemish
German
English	UTF8