geo.be Metadata Catalog
geo.be Metadata Catalog (National Geographic Institute)
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Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
Discovery Service - resources entered for the INSPIRE reporting
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”.
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting 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.
Population structure by age groups - Wallonia
The number of inhabitants according to official statistics by age group (<20 years, >=65 years, >=80 years) and by administrative entity (region, province, district and municipality) for Wallonia.
Supplier: Statbel (IWEPS calculations) Comparable data over time, available here from 1985. Each year, Statbel, the Belgian statistical office, calculates the legal population figure as determined by Belgian law. For this, Statbel draws demographic data from the national register (RN). The RN is a legal tool that has existed in Belgium since 1983 which centralizes the population registers established in each Belgian municipality from 1846. It registers all residents of Belgium in different registers: mainly the population register and foreigners (the Belgians and foreigners domiciled - authorized to settle or stay for more than three months - in Belgium), the waiting register (political refugee candidates) and diplomatic and consular registers as well as that of European officials and members of other institutions international organizations (NATO) and their families. The official population of Belgium, which serves as the basis for the calculations of demographic indices, counts all of the RN people who have their main residence in Belgium, excluding the waiting register.
Total of undeveloped aera en de part of undeveloped aera in relation to the total surface - Flanders
The areas not included in the settelement area considered to be categories of open space. However, open space should not be confused with green or undeveloped space. The settelement area also includes various forms of non-paved green space, such as gardens and parks or sports grounds and these are counted as developed area. These indicators show the total area of open space expressed in m² en de part of open area in relation to the total surface per administrative unit (region, province, district and municipality) for Flanders.
The concept 'land use' refers to the actual use of land for well-defined human activities (such as housing, industry and services, recreation, etc.), for crops (such as arable, pasture, etc.) or by natural vegetation (such as forest, scrubland, etc.). In order to monitor land use in Flanders, we rely on the Land Use File, which is constructed from 18 different sources of spatial information available in Flanders. The land use file consists of 4 levels (level 1: land cover; level 2: urbanised land use; level 3: multifunctional land use; level 4: port sites and military domains). VITO has combined these 4 levels into one aggregated land use file. This file gives an overview of the actual land use for each 10x10m cell in Flanders and consists of 18 land use categories.
Network of marks whose planimetric coordinates are known with precision according to the reference systems which are used in Belgium.
Phased survey process which started in the inter-war period and ended in 2004.
Annual and seasonal precipitation indices given in number of days: 1/ Wet days: Number of days with precipitation > 0.1 mm/day for winter, autumn, spring, summer; 2/ Dry days: Number of days with precipitation < 0.1 mm/day for winter, autumn, spring, summer; 3/ Average length of dry spells: Mean duration of minimum three consecutive days with precipitation < 0.1 mm/day; 4/ Maximum length of dry spells: Longest period of minimum three consecutive days with precipitation < 0.1 mm/day, occurring once in 20 years. The precipitation indices are available for the future target year 2085, which corresponds to the middle of the 30-year period 2071-2100, and for mean and high impact scenarios corresponding respectively to the 50th, and 5th or 95th percentiles of the change factors.
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.
National wastewater-based epidemiological surveillance of psychoactive substances
The national wastewater-based epidemiological surveillance of psychoactive substances monitors the presence of various psychoactive substances in several wastewater treatment plants across Belgium. This dataset contains the results per treatment plant since the beginning of the surveillance in 2025. The results consist of the psychoactive substances 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, psychoactive substances, illicit drugs
Environmental Health Determinant Measure
The surveillance started in 2025 for the whole country. Samples are collected during 7 consecutive days in spring at each selected wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) using 24-hour volume proportional or time proportional auto-samplers. After transport at 4°C, samples are frozen at -20°C until analyzed. The samples are analyzed by the Toxicological Centre of the University of Antwerp. After solid phase extraction, the samples are analyzed LC-MS/MS. 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.
Annual, summer and winter mean temperature given in °C. The temperature fields are available for the future target year 2085, which corresponds to the middle of the 30-year period 2071-2100, and for mean and high impact scenarios corresponding respectively to the 50th and 95th percentiles of the change factors.
CORINE High Resolution Layers - Belgium 2012
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.
The layer was completed by the automatic classification achieved by an EEA service provider. Belgium achieved a classification verification and enhanced the layer on the basis of their own thematic data and aerial photographs.
This dataset comprises historical orthophotos from the 1980s to 1989, derived from aerial surveys carried out by the National Geographic Institute (NGI). The ground sample distance (GSD) of the images is 10 cm. The mosaics were created using aerial photography campaigns dating from 1989. The original photographs were digitised and orthorectified in the Lambert 2008 coordinate system. The spatial coverage for each year corresponds to the areas for which photographs were available. High-resolution data can be ordered via https://shop.ngi.be/fr/photos-aeriennes/
historical orthophotos, aerial photographs, 1989, panchromatic, black and white, 10 cm resolution
Localized unemployment rates of 15-64 year olds in the ILO sense - Belgium
The localised unemployment rate calibrated on the labour force survey (LFS), by administrative unit (region, province, district and municipality) for Belgium.
In order to allow international comparisons, in particular within the European Union, Eurostat has set up the Labour Force Survey. By combining a set of questions, it makes it possible to measure aggregates such as the active population, employment and unemployment in the same way in all countries and in accordance with the ILO recommendations. This survey has been carried out continuously in Belgium since 1999 (previously only in spring). However, it only provides reliable data at the level of the regions (Wallonia, Flanders, Brussels). Therefore, in order to be able to compare the Belgian districts and municipalities with other areas at international level, IWEPS calculates data calibrated to the Labour Force Survey. The totals, by gender, age and region, correspond exactly to those published by Statbel, the Belgian National Statistical Institute. These data may differ slightly from the data published by Eurostat, which revises the whole series every year.
Walloon Institute for Evaluation, Foresight and Statistics (IWEPS)
Province of Antwerp Province of West Flanders Province of East Flanders province of Flemisch Brabant Province of Limburg