geo.be Metadata Catalog
geo.be Metadata Catalog (National Geographic Institute)
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Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
Abbreviations of place names and administrative units
The reference list in Belgium for the unique abbreviations of all Belgian cities and municipalities. It also includes the submunicipalities, which do not have a clear definition.
Administrative, statistical and cadastral units
•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 names of towns and municipalities are not always unique. This can sometimes cause problems for the government, because it is not always clear which municipality is being referred to. This is certainly a problem when the municipality has to be used as an abbreviation. In order to work more efficiently, the FPS Justice has therefore drawn up a list of unique abbreviations for each city and (sub)municipality. This ensures that all FPS Justice employees refer to a particular city or municipality in the same way. This should make the work of magistrates, registrars, administrators, etc. easier and more efficient. Other government services, companies, organisations and citizens can also benefit from this system. That is why the NGI is making the list publicly available and it will be used as the reference list in Belgium and the only true source for all abbreviations of cities and municipalities in Belgium. It may be used by all government institutions and the private sector.
National wastewater-based epidemiological surveillance (ATOM)
The national wastewater-based epidemiological surveillance monitors public health parameters in several wastewater treatment plants across Belgium. This webservice contains the results per treatment plant since the beginning of the surveillance in September 2020. The results consist of 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, Illicit drugs
National wastewater-based epidemiological surveillance of SARS-CoV-2
The national wastewater-based epidemiological surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 monitors the SARS-CoV-2 presence in several wastewater treatment plants across Belgium. This dataset contains the results per treatment plant since the beginning of the surveillance in September 2020. The results consist of the SARS-CoV-2 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, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, Coronavirus
Environmental Health Determinant Measure
The surveillance started in mid-September 2020 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 Wallonia were analyzed by E-BIOM until December 2023, after which the Foodborne Pathogens Unit of Sciensano took over the analyses. Samples from the 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 three laboratories use a harmonized protocol. After concentration and RNA extraction, the samples were analyzed by RT-qPCR until June 2023 and later on by RT-dPCR. Three target sequences located in two regions of SARS-Cov-2 genome are analyzed. The gene fragments are the N1 and N2 sequences targeting the N gene encoding for the nucleoprotein, and the E gene encoding for the viral envelope protein. Since June 2023 only N2 and E sequences are analyzed. Until June 2023, analyses were performed in duplicates for the three genes (in triplicates until mid-September 2022 in Wallonia, then in duplicates) but since June 2023, each analysis is conducted only once. 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.
This AtomFeed download service provides access to federal datasets that are not reported under the INSPIRE Directive. The datasets can be accessible for free or under conditions.
Characteristics of cadastral parcels - Rights of legal persons
Characteristics of the cadastral parcels - Rights of legal persons corresponds to the dataset describing the legal persons holding real rights on the parcels such as recorded by the FPS Finance for registration purposes. This dataset is composed of seven classes. The first class shows, at the national level, for each cadastral nature and for each type of real right, the number of parcels, their total cadastral income, as well as the number of parcels on which legal persons from the concerned NACE code hold the concerned real rights. The second class includes this information at the level of the three regions. The following classes do the same at the level of provinces, arrondissements, municipalities, cadastral divisions and statistical sectors. The dataset can be freely downloaded as a zipped CSV.
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).
Characteristics of cadastral parcels - Rights of legal persons is compiled from the contents of the reference database for the land register data as well as from the contents of the database of real rights holders. The first database records, for each parcel, its type, its cadastral income (i.e. the annual net rental value of the property on January 1st 1975, the reference year for property tax purposes), the real rights holders as well as the type of right they are holding. These variables are determined, after investigation, by the agents of the FPS Finance at the time of the creation of the parcel, after a significant modification of the parcel or after a possible control carried out by the FPS Finance, in particular following the registration of a real right. The registration of a real right necessarily changes the last two aforementioned variables. The second database contains, for each holder of real rights, various pieces of information from the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises, which is the authentic source for legal persons, including the nature of their economic activities.
Points Of Interest - Elements of general interest contains point elements that are classified as being of general interest, namely embassies, (federal, regional, provincial, municipality) buildings, Govroam, court houses, prisons, police stations, post offices, education, sports buildings and infrastructure, cultural places and centres, libraries and archives, attraction-, recreation-, water- and wildlife parks, camp sites, museum, provincial domains, observatory, observation points, swimming pools, chemist's, crematorium, fire station, civil defence and healthcare in Belgium.
Occupation and planning of sea and land areas
The POI dataset of the NGI was originally constructed as an auxiliary database for assigning appropriate attributes to NGI’s topographic reference data. Various sources were consulted. After checking and correcting the source data, additional POIs were added via aerial photographs or terrain observations.
This AtomFeed download service provides access to datasets of GAPD that are reported under the INSPIRE Directive. The datasets can be accessible for free or under conditions.
CORINE High Resolution Layers-Belgium 2015
The product is made of 5 "high resolution layers" covering all the Belgian territory as part of a European-wide coverage for the reference year 2015. The 5 layers concern 4 distinct themes: Imperviousness, Forest, Grasslands, Wetness and Water. The 5 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 by Belgium. At the Belgian level, verification and enhancements were made by IV for the northern part and SPW for the outhern part. The NGI coordinated the project. Data was produced with funding by the European Union. Copyright Copernicus Programme DISCLAIMER: National Geographic Institute has undertaken to distribute the data on behalf of EEA under Specific Contract No 3436/R0-Copernicus/EEA.57005 implementing Framework service contract No EEA/IDM/R0/16/009/Belgium. National Geographic Institute 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.
The layer was completed by the automatic classification achieved by an EEA service provider. Belgium achieved a classification verification on the basis of their own thematic data and aerial photographs.
Top250Map is a digital version of the NGI’s topographic cartography on a scale of 1:250 000. It is the smallest scale used by the NGI to produce a cartographic representation of Belgium. It focuses mainly on inhabited places and transport networks. The whole territory is available in one single file. This map is characterized by the great number of toponyms of inhabited places.
Top250Map is made by the symbolisation of the objects and themes in the topo-geographic inventory of the Belgian territory (ITGI). Many themes are generalized on a scale of 1:250 000 from data on the scale of 1:50 000.
Annual, seasonal and monthly precipitation amounts given in respectively mm/year, mm/3 months and mm/month. The precipitation amounts are available for the present target year 1975, which corresponds to the middle of the 30-year period 1961-1990.
climate projections,Belgium,Representative Concentration Pathway,high resolution
Meteorology, weather and radiation conditions
In the follow-up Belspo funded 'CICADA' project (2019-2021, https://www.belspo.be/belspo/brain-be/projects/FinalReports/CICADAbe_FinRep.pdf), these Belgian climate model projections were used to adjust the spread of climate change signals based on the larger model ensemble of all available CMIP5 Global Climate Model runs (https://pcmdi.llnl.gov/mips/cmip5/) and EURO-CORDEX Regional Climate Model runs (https://euro-cordex.net/060378/index.php.en). This multi-model ensemble of climate change signals or factors were used to apply a statistical downscaling or more specifically a quantile perturbation method on the observational climate grid from the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium. From those ensembles, 5th, 50th, and 95th percentiles of changes, corresponding to a mean (50th percentiles) and high (5th or 95th percentiles) impact scenario, were obtained for the variables: precipitation, temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, global solar radiation and potential evapotranspiration.
FPS Finance - General Administration of Patrimonial Documentation (GAPD)