geo.be Metadata Catalog
geo.be Metadata Catalog (National Geographic Institute)
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Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
Automatic weather station (AWS) 10-min observations
RMI operates a network of 17 automatic weather stations in Belgium. These weather stations report meteorological paramaters such as air pressure, temperature, relative humidity, precipitation (quantity,duration), wind (speed, gust, direction), sunshine duration, shortwave solar radiation and infrared radiation every 10 minutes.
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UV Index derived from spectral measurements with a Brewer UV spectrophotometer. This product is not publically available yet.
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.
Volume reflectivity data - Jabbeke weather radar
Polar volume reflectivity data from the Jabbeke weather radar. Volume data files are produced every 5 minutes from a multiple elevation scan. This product is not publicly available yet.
Reflectivity data are collected at 15 elevation angles between 0.3 and 25 degrees. A Doppler filtering is applied. An electronic calibration is regularly performed and the quality of the data is monitored using comparison between radar-based precipitation estimates and rain gauge measurements.
View service - Orthophoto Meuse, Vesdre and Demer
The service makes it possible to view the aerial photos with orthorectification taken by Hansa Luftbild at NGI's request following the floods of July 2021 in the areas of the Vesdre, part of the Meuse downstream of Liège and the Demer. The resolution of the original data is 6.5 cm (4 cm above the Hoëgne). The service allows the images to be viewed at a maximum resolution of 25 cm. Orthophotos are digital aerial photographs in which the systematic distortions due to the central projection, relief and the not always perfectly vertical axis of shooting have been corrected. The orthophoto thereby obtained is metrically more accurate than an ordinary aerial photograph and is highly valuable as basic information.
•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.
View service Air Quality Data Belgium - WMS
INSPIRE compliant download service for geographic information made available by the Belgian Interregional Environment Agency (IRCEL - CELINE).
Gas pipelines as built in the Belgian Part of the North Sea
This dataset represents the exact location of gas pipelines installed in the Belgian Part of the North Sea.
Greater North Sea, incl. the Kattegat and the English Channel
This dataset represents the location of each gas pipeline, as known from the charts, laid down in the Belgian Part of the North Sea and has not been modified or altered.
Inheritances corresponds to the dataset describing declarations of estate and the value of the assets included therein. This dataset is composed of five classes. The first class includes, at the national level, by age group, gender, and type of property, the number of deceased persons, the total value of the property, the median value of the property, the 25th and 75th percentiles of the value of the property, and the standard deviation of the value of the property. The second class includes this information at the level of the three regions. The following classes do the same at the level of provinces, districts, and municipalities. The geographical distribution is based on the deceased's tax domicile. Since January 1, 2015, the FPS Finance is no longer responsible for the estates of deceased persons with a tax domicile in Flanders. Only data for tax domiciles located in the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region are included in the dataset. The dataset can be downloaded free of charge in zipped CSV format.
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).
Inheritances is based on the reference database for the management of inheritance cases and the database of natural persons. The former contains details of each deceased person and their declarations of estate. The second database contains, for each natural person, various pieces of information from the National Register, which is the authentic source for Belgian natural persons or for foreigners domiciled in Belgium, or from the BIS Register, which is the authentic source for foreigners who have interests in Belgium but are not domiciled there.
This dataset comprises historical orthophotos from the 1960s to 1969, derived from aerial surveys carried out by the National Geographic Institute (NGI). The ground sample distance (GSD) of the images ranges from 10 to 50 cm. The mosaics were created using aerial photography campaigns dating from 1961, 1966 and 1969. 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, 1960, 1961, 1966, 1969, panchromatic, black and white, 10 cm resolution, 25 cm resolution, 50 cm resolution
Air quality monitoring network of Belgium
The air quality monitoring networks in Belgium are used for the assessment of air quality under the air quality directives (2008/50/EC & 2004/107/EC).
The dataset is created in the context of the 2008/50/EC Framework Directive. The Belgian territory is devided into zones according to the instructions listed in the 2008/50/EC Directive. The assessment methods are used to provide information for the assessment of air quality in Belgium towards the Commission. Member States shall make the information referred to in paragraph 1 available to the Commission for a full calendar year no later than 9 months after the end of each calendar year.
Weather model INCA. Available parameters : 2m Temperature, 2m Dewpoint, 2m Relative Humidity, Snowfall level, Freezing level, 3D Temperature, 3D Humidity, 3D Wind, 10m Wind, 10m Gusts, Ground temperature, Wind chill, Precipitation, Precipitation type, Lightning, Collection of convective analysis fields:CAPE, CIN, LCL, Level of free convection,Lifted Index, Showalter Index, Deep ConvectionIndex, Trigger temperature, Trigger temperaturedeficit, Equivalent Pot. temperature, Moistureconvergence, Flow divergence, Precipitable water, Cloudiness, Visibility. This product is not publicly available yet
INCA (Integrated Nowcasting through Comprehensive Analysis) is a nowcasting system for the analysis and nowcasts of several meteorological fields, like temperature, humidity, wind, precipitation and cloudiness, and some derived fields like precipitation type, wind chill, height of the freezing level and visibility. For the calculation of these fields, INCA ingests a wide range of observational and model data: radar composites, data from automatic weather stations, satellite data and NWP output. The nowcasts of the fields gradually converge towards the NWP forecast for longer lead times. INCA has been developed at the national meteorological service of Austria (ZAMG); INCA-BE is the implementation of this system for Belgium. Since the start of its implementation in 2010, the system has been heavily modified and improved, including: a nowcast of the lightning activity based on the BELLS network, the addition of an uncertainty plume to the precipitation forecast, and the addition of hail as a supplementary precipitation type in the precipitation type forecast. Apart from these system extensions, a complete new module was added to the system as well: the nowcast of 10m wind gusts.
Monitoring stations (Air Quality Directive)
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
Belgian Interregional Environment Agency (IRCEL - CELINE)
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature)
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), GeoCell
FPS Finance - General Administration of Patrimonial Documentation (GAPD)