geo.be Metadata Catalog
geo.be Metadata Catalog (National Geographic Institute)
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Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
This web service allows viewing/downloading datasets from Electricity network
Share of undeveloped cadastral aera - Wallonia
Share of the cadastral surface area that is not artificially developed in the cadastral and not unknown surface area to the administrative entity (region, province, district and municipality) for Wallonia
•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.
The land use and land cover data used by IWEPS for Wallonia are taken from the Belgian Cadastre (SPF Finance). A cadastral parcel includes the buildings, annexes, outbuildings, accesses and gardens that are contiguous to it, provided that the whole forms an indivisible whole and is assigned to the same use (SPF Finance, 2014). For each cadastral parcel, the surface area and the cadastral nature are available. The latter corresponds to the main use of the parcel at the time of its last cadastral registration (e.g. house, farm, business, etc.). In 2008, a land use nomenclature was developed on the basis of a joint reflection by the standing conference on territorial development, the SPW Environment and the IWEPS. The cadastral natures were grouped into 16 land use categories. These 16 categories can be grouped together to distinguish between artificial and non-artificial land. This grouping of parcels is based on the work of the European CORINE Land Cover (CLC) project in order to facilitate comparisons with other European regions. The land registry data are not exhaustive. In 2021, 5.2% of Wallonia's territory is not registered and/or of unknown nature. The unregistered areas are part of the public space (roads, squares, railways, rivers and canals, etc.). These areas of unknown nature are not homogeneously distributed over the Walloon territory. The proportion of unknown areas varies from 2% (larger or rural municipalities) to over 20% (Liège and Visé). The Sambre-et-Meuse region accounts for a large proportion of this area.
Owners' origin - Real estate companies corresponds to the dataset describing the origin of the legal persons engaged in real estate activities (section L of the NACE-BEL 2008 nomenclature) that are holders of real rights over immovable properties located in Belgium according to the municipality of their headquarters for legal persons settled in Belgium and according to the country or territory of their headquarters for foreign legal persons. This dataset is made up of seven classes. The first class shows, at national level, for each type of property, the total number of parcels, the number of parcels held by holders from each Belgian municipality and the number of parcels held by holders from each country or territory. The number of parcels takes into account the shares actually held. The second class shows this information at the level of the three regions. The following classes do the same at the level of provinces, arrondissements, municipalities, land register divisions and statistical sectors. The dataset is freely downloadable, in the form of zipped CSV files.
The licence is fully available in French (https://finances.belgium.be/sites/default/files/Licence_plan_opendata_FR.PDF) or in Dutch (https://financien.belgium.be/sites/default/files/Licentie_plan_opendata_NL.PDF).
Owners’ origin - Real estate companies is based on the reference cadastral database and the database relating to legal persons. The former records for each parcel, the cadastral nature, the holders of real rights and the nature of their right. These variables are determined following a change in real right or following the registration of a deed. The second database contains various items of information for each legal person from the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises, the authentic source for legal persons.
Mineral resources in the sand and gravel extraction areas in the Belgian part of the North Sea
The dataset shows in the form of polygons the sand and gravel extraction sites in the Belgian marine areas as defined by the successive marine spatial plans. A 2014 version illustrates the 2014-2020 plan while the 2020 version illustrates the 2020-2026 plan.
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The geometry of the sand and gravel extraction areas included in the dataset is a faithful copy of the extraction areas allowed by the 2014-2020 and 2020-2026 marine spatial plans.
Deze web-service verzekert de visualisatie van de gegevens van de FOD Economie, conform aan de specificaties van INSPIRE. De datasets waarvan de structuur conform de specificaties van INSPIRE zijn, zijn opgenomen.
Administrative, statistical and cadastral units
INSPIRE compliant discovery service for geographic information made available by the Belgian Federal Government.
National wastewater-based epidemiological surveillance of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV)
The national wastewater-based epidemiological surveillance of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) monitors the RSV presence in several wastewater treatment plants across Belgium. This dataset contains the results per treatment plant since the beginning of the surveillance in January 2024. The results consist of the RSV concentrations over time as well as other data needed for the interpretations such as the flow rates of the treatment plants and the population covered.
Wastewater, Epidemiological surveillance, Epidemiology, Infectious diseases, RSV, Respiratory syncytial virus
Environmental Health Determinant Measure
The surveillance started in January 2024 for the whole country. Samples are collected every week at each selected wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) using 24-hour volume proportional or time proportional auto-samplers. Samples are stored at 4°C and analyzed within 24 hours. The samples from the Walloon region and Brussels-Capital Region and the provinces of West-Vlanderen, Oost-Vlanderen and Vlaams-Brabant are analyzed by the Foodborne pathogens unit of Sciensano while samples from the provinces of Antwerpen and Limburg are analyzed by the Microbiology, Parasitology and Hygiene Laboratory of the University of Antwerp. The two laboratories use a harmonized protocol. After concentration and RNA extraction, the samples are analyzed by RT-dPCR. Two gene sequences one specific to RSV subgroup A and one to subgroup B are analyzed. These sequences target the N gene encoding for the nucleoprotein. The quality of the results is checked and validated at the laboratory level. If the quality is insufficient, additional analyzes are performed. Once received by the data manager, the laboratory results undergo a second validation before being integrated in the database. The 24 hours-representative flow rates of each WWTP are collected using flowmeters and are provided by the wastewater agencies (Hydria and Aquiris for the WWTPs of Brussels, Société Publique de Gestion de l'Eau (SPGE) for the WWTPs of Wallonia and Aquafin for the WWTPs of Flanders). Domestic inhabitant equivalents (IE) are used to estimate the population coverage of each WWTP. IE are based on several data sources (population data, building type data, connection to the network and WWTPs geographical coverage data). IE are provided by SPGE in Wallonia and by the Vlaamse Milieumaatschappij (VMM) in Flanders. In Brussels the population is estimated based on the data provided by Statbel. The data provided by the wastewater agencies and VMM are validated by the data manager before being integrated in the database.
Landcover100Map is a digital version of the NGI’s topographic cartography on a scale of 1 :100 000. The images come from the symbolisation of the objects and the themes in the topo-geographic inventory of the Belgian territory (ITGI), which is built and kept up-to-date by the NGI. Landcover100Map is meant for a regional use on a larger scale than the one for Top50Map, typically on the scale of a province. The land use theme is very salient in this topographic cartography. The relief is represented by shadowing.
The Landcover100Map is made by automatic symbolisation processes. The topo-geographic data set for the 1:100 000 scale is generated by generalisation of the data on the scale of 1:50 000. This data set also contains satellite data, based on the Corine Land Cover project launched within the CORINE programme (COordination des INformations sur l'Environnement) of the European Commission.
UV Index derived from spectral measurements with a Brewer UV spectrophotometer. This product is not publically available yet.
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Every two year the spectrophotometers are calibrated by an external company. A 1000W NIST-traceable reference lamp is used to make an absolute calibration. For the absolute UV calibration small 50W lamps are used once a month to verify the calibration level.
Networks of automatic lidar-ceilometer systems
The ceilometer CL51 employs a pulsed diode laser LIDAR technology, where short, powerful laser pulses are sent out in a vertical or near-vertical direction. The reflection of light (backscatter) caused by clouds, precipitation or other obscuration is analysed and used to determine the cloud base height, the cloud layer height and the amount of clouds (in octas) in different layers.
The cloud base height, the cloud layer height and the amount of clouds in different layers are computed by the Vaisala CL51 algorithm based on raw backscatter data (time resolution: 6 s and vertical resolution: 10 m). The sky condition algorithm is calculated every five minutes based on data collected during the last 30 minutes. The last 10 minutes are double-weighted to make the algorithm more responsive to variations in cloudiness. The algorithm uses cloud base height and timing information to find cloud base height close each other. These cloud base height are combined into clusters and a height value is calculated for each cluster. This height gives the base height of a cloud layer represented by the cluster. The algorithm reports layers by combining clusters whose heights are close to each other and then selecting clusters that cover the greatest amount of sky.
Walloon Institute for Evaluation, Foresight and Statistics (IWEPS)
FPS Finance - General Administration of Patrimonial Documentation (GAPD)
FPS Economy, SMEs, Self-employed and Energy, GD Quality and Safety, Service Continental Shelf
FPS Economy, SMEs, Self-Employed and Energy, Statistics Belgium
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium