geo.be Metadata Catalog
geo.be Metadata Catalog (National Geographic Institute)
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Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
Measuring poles in the Belgian Part of the North Sea
The Royal Decree of 22 May 2019 establishing a marine spatial plan defines 6 measuring poles: Measuring pole MOW.0 (Art. 21§2), Measuring pole MOW.1 (Art. 21§2), Measuring pole MOW.2 (Art. 21§2), Measuring pole MOW.3 (Art. 21§2), Measuring pole MOW.4 (Art. 21§2), Measuring pole Westhinder (Art. 21§2). It replaces the 2014 Marine Spatial Plan, which is included for completeness. The Royal Decree of 20 March 2014 establishing a marine spatial plan defines in its Art. 15. §3, one set of measuring pole locations. These locations are made available digitally in the resource described by this metadata document. Please refer to the Belgian official gazette (\"Moniteur belge/Belgisch Staatsblad\") for official reference information.
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use (Text with EEA relevance)
Greater North Sea, incl. the Kattegat and the English Channel
Dataset is quality assured. Dataset corresponds to a digitized version of the information published in the Belgian official gazette ("Belgisch staatsblad/Moniteur belge"). Only the information published in the official gazette has legal validity.
National wastewater-based epidemiological surveillance – Catchment areas
The national wastewater-based epidemiological surveillance monitors public health parameters in several wastewater treatment plants across Belgium. This dataset contains the catchment areas per treatment plant since the beginning of the surveillance in September 2020.
Wastewater, Epidemiological surveillance, Epidemiology, Infectious diseases, Illicit drugs
Environmental Health Determinant Measure
The surveillance started in mid-September 2020 for the whole country. Samples are collected every week at each wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). The catchment areas of WWTPs are provided by the Vlaamse Milieumaatschappij (VMM) in Flanders, by the Société Publique de Gestion de l'Eau (SPGE) in Wallonia and by Leefmilieu Brussel/Bruxelles Environnement in Brussels. The catchment areas were redrawn in Wallonia and Brussels to comply with the polygon style used by Flanders.
Download service -Admininistrative units and Land register plan - current situation
This web service provides the download per object of the datasets Administrative units - current situation and Land register plan - current situation. This webservice does not comply with the INSPIRE specifications, and the datasets to which it gives access do not comply with the INSPIRE specifications.
Administrative, statistical and cadastral units
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).
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.
Automatic weather station (AWS) daily 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. Daily AWS data are computed from the 10-min observations.
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Daily AWS data are computed from the RMI 10-min AWS observations available during the considered day from 00:00 to 24:00 UTC. The daily data correspond to the sum of the 10-min observations in case of cumulative parameters (e.g., precipitation quantity, sunshine duration) and otherwise to the average, minimum of maximum of the 10-min observations. The tolerance against missing values is 10%, i.e., no daily values are computed when more than 10% of the expected 10-min observations are missing.
The entities included in the dataset represent the Belgian rail transport network in the sense of the Inspire European directive. The dataset comprises several classes and is in accordance with the INSPIRE specifications. The RailLink class represents, in a linear manner, all of the rail links between each pair of dots for the network considered. The RailwayStationNode class represents occasionally all of the stations located along the network. In addition to this are two classes without geometry. The RailwatType class ranks the segments according to the type of rail transport for which they were designed. All the segments for this dataset belong to the train category. The "RailwaytElectrification" class lists the segments according to whether they are electrified or not.
The data have been collected in two different ways: on the one hand, by field survey, writing down the attribute data on mat-pale photographs, followed by the photogrammetric stereo restitution of the geometry in a CAD-file (with Lambert72 xyz-coordinates) and finally the topological cleaning up and the import of the attribute data in a 2D-database. On the other hand, by photogrammetric stereo restitution of the geometry in a CAD-file (with Lambert72 xyz-coordinates), followed by the import (on-site) of the attribute data in the CAD-files and finally the topological cleaning up in a 2D-database.During the dataloading into the new ITGI-model, the contents of the 2D-database have been mapped and converted into a database with Lambert2008-coordinates. The z-coordinate was recovered from the photogrammetric restitution's CAD-files or calculated on the basis of the DTM.
Download Service (WFS) for Automatic weather station (AWS) observations
Statistical sectors in Belgium (INSPIRE version)
The data set has been established according to the INSPIRE format. It presents in the form of polygons the breakdown of Belgium in almost 20,000 statistical sectors. The statistical sector is the basic territorial unit resulting from the subdivision of the territory of municipalities by STATBEL since 1970 for the dissemination of its statistics at a finer level than the municipal level. A statistical sector cannot extend over two municipalities and any point in the municipal territory is part of one and the same statistical sector. The 1970 and 1981 versions are shown in analogue format while the 2001, 2011, 2018, 2019 etc. versions are available in digital vector format. The files can be linked to the data on population, housing and disposable income on the website of Statbel.
An open data license is available in French an Dutch See https://statbel.fgov.be/en/open-data
The data set ‘Statistical sectors in Belgium (INSPIRE version)’ is derived from the data set ‘Statistical sectors in Belgium (native version)’. The statistical sectors were created based on social, economic, urbanistic or morphological characteristics as part of the population and housing census from 1970. They were outlined and represented on analogue topographic 1:10,000 maps. Since then, they were updated several times: • the general population and housing census from 1981: to take into account the increase in settlement clusters, new infrastructure works as well as the new administrative borders due to the merger of municipalities carried out since the 1970 census; • the general population and housing census from 1991: to integrate the new administrative borders from the merger of municipalities in Antwerp; • the socio-economic survey from 2001: to take into account the exchange of territories among municipalities, the increase in settlement clusters and employment zones as well as the new infrastructure works such as the TGV railway line; • the population and housing census from 2011: to integrate the new municipal borders from an exchange of territories between two municipalities (Seneffe and Manage in the province of Hainaut) ; • in 2018: to integrate an exchange of territories between Belgium and the Netherlands and to include the intertidal zone in the territory of the municipalities bordering the North Sea and the new version of the administrative borders published by the General Administration of the Patrimonial Documentation; • since 2019, the borders of statistical sectors are reviewed annually based on the municipal borders provided by the General Administration of the Patrimonial Documentation in order to take into account their evolutions and geometric corrections. The digital versions available are derived from the vectorisation of analogue 1:10,000 maps from 1981 referenced in the CRS EPSG 31370 (Belgian Lambert 72) by means of electronic tables to be digitized. The 2001 version is built from a general version (1:10,000) of the administrative borders provided by the National Geographic Institute (NGI), while the following versions are based on more precise versions provided by the General Administration of the Patrimonial Documentation.
Population demographic characteristics dataset in support of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) Descriptor 1 (D01C03, 2018 Reporting)
This dataset is part of the 2018 Belgian submission for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) linked to descriptor 1, criterion 3. Occurrence of breeding seabirds describes the observation of eight seabird species (Common tern, Black-headed Gull, Herring Gull, Common Gull, Small Black-backed Gull, Yellow-legged gull, Big Stern and Little Stern) on the Belgian coast between 1992 and 2015.
(Criteria) D1C3 - Population demographic characteristics
Data on breeding sea birds are gathered by INBO, and are presented to BMDC as excel files. The headers of the excel files are normalized and quality managed as Common-Layout files, and are awaiting import into IDOD.
Potential seaport expansion zones in the Belgian Part of the North Sea
The Royal Decree of 22 May 2019 establishing a marine spatial plan defines 2 potential seaport expansion zones: Potential harbour extension Oostende (Art. 12§2), Potential harbour extension Zeebrugge (Art. 12§3). It replaces the 2014 Marine Spatial Plan, which is included for completeness. The Royal Decree of 20 March 2014 establishing a marine spatial plan defines in its Art. 9. § 10, two zones (Art. 9 §10 zone 1, Ostend, Art. 9 §10 zone 2, Zeebrugge) for the potential extension of the sea ports of Ostend en Zeebrugge. These zones are made available digitally in the resource described by this metadata document. Please refer to the Belgian official gazette (\"Moniteur belge/Belgisch Staatsblad\") for official reference information.
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), GeoCell
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature)
FPS Finance - General Administration of Patrimonial Documentation (GAPD)
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
FPS Economy, SMEs, Self-Employed and Energy, Statistics Belgium
Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)