geo.be Metadata Catalog
geo.be Metadata Catalog (National Geographic Institute)
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Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
Points Of Interest - Infrastructures interest contains point elements indicating the location of a infrastructure, such as a container depot, incinerator, brunnel (bridges and tunnels), rail traffic, subway access, subway and tram stops, heli- and airport, control tower, light mast, lighthouse, water tower, flashing-lamp, breakwater, harbour area, marina, ship lift, dock, embankment, sluice, stilt structure and water point in Belgium.
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.
National wastewater-based epidemiological surveillance (WFS)
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
Belgian surface rainfall rate and accumulation estimation (QPE)
RADQPE provides high resolution radar-based quantitative precipitation estimation in realtime for Belgium and its surroundings. This product is not publically available yet.
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The RADQPE product is obtained after a careful processing of the weather radar measurements and a merging with rain gauge measurements. The scientific basis can be found in Goudenhoofdt and Delobbe (2016). There is a continuous improvement process based on research and quality control. WEATHER RADAR MEASUREMENTS Radars emit electromagnetic pulses, typically with a length of 500m and a width of 1 degree. Part of the energy of this pulse is reflected back to the radar by precipitation. Radars performs scans at different elevations in about 5 minutes. Estimating rainfall from radar measurements is a challenge because of the many sources of error and uncertainty. RADQPE is based on the 3D reflectivity measurements of the following radars: - Avesnois, France, French National Meteorological Service - Helchteren, Belgium, Flanders Environment Agency - Jabbeke, Belgium, The Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium - Neuheilenbach, Germany, German National Meteorological Service - Wideumont, Belgium, The Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium These radars exhibit various technology, scanning strategy and data processing. They use Doppler capabilities to remove non-meteorological echoes with zero velocity (e.g. hills). Some processing can lead to loss of information and make further processing difficult. RAIN GAUGE MEASUREMENTS The following automatic rain gauge networks are used by RADQPE: - 91 weighted gauge OTT2, SPWMI, Belgium - 42 weighted gauge OTT2, VMM, Belgium - 19 weighted gauge OTT2, WL, Belgium The quality control by data providers is void (WL), limited (SPW) or unknown (VMM). No extra quality control is performed before writing the data in the RMIB database. QUALITY CONTROL OF THE RADAR MEASUREMENTS - Identification of permanently contaminated measurements (hills, wind farms, interference). - Correction for radar beam blockage by terrain - Identification of clutter (i.e. non-meteorological echoes or signals) based on satellite cloudiness products - Identification of clutter based on vertical profiles of radar reflectivity - Identification of clutter based on image texture - Identification of clutter based on dual-polarisation technology (only Helchteren and Jabekke) FROM RADAR MEASUREMENTS TO GROUND RAINFALL RATE ESTIMATION 1. Identification of convective precipitation 2. Extrapolation to ground of non convective precipitation using an averaged vertical profile of reflectivity 3. Interpolation of missing data (vertically then horizontally) 4. Conversion of reflectivity into rain rates based on precipitation type (hail, convective, stratiform) SINGLE RADAR ACCUMULATION AND BIAS CORRECTION 1. The movement of precipitation between 5-min snapshots is obtained using optical flow methods. It is used to accumulate rain rates over the past 1 hour and 24 hours. 2. The accumulations are adjusted by a mean field bias (MFB), which is computed based on the rain gauges measurements corresponding to the same duration 3. To remove radar calibration difference before compositing, the single radar rain rates are adjusted by the median of the 24h biases (computed at the previous step) for the past month. COMPOSITING, ACCUMULATION AND RADAR-GAUGE MERGING 1. For the months with dominant convective precipitation (May, June, July, August), the single radar rain rates are combined into a composite by taking the maximum value of the 3 closest radars. 2. For other months, the composite is based on all values weighted based on the distance to the radar. 3. Rainfall accumulation of the composite rain rates are made for the past 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 1 hour and 24 hours. 4. The 1h and 24h composite accumulations are adjusted by the MFB correction 5. The 1h bias correction of the previous step is applied to the composite rain rate. The correction is also applied to the 5 and 10-min composite accumulations
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
distance matrix between the centers of municipalities
This dataset contains a matrix of distances between all Belgian municipality centres as defined in the AdminVector product. The distance is in km and is rounded to an integer.
•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 distance matrix is the result of a calculation using the road network built with TomTom multinet data in the ArcGIS Pro Origin-Destination cost matrix tool. The distance between a point representing a commune centre and the road network is less than 170 metres. The calculation takes into account one-way roads and avoids special roads such as pedestrian zones, roads under construction, exceptional transport, ...
Buyers' origin - Legal persons corresponds to the dataset describing the origin of the buyers (legal persons) of real estate 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 (headquarter at the date of the deed). 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 acquired by buyers from each Belgian municipality and the number of parcels acquired by buyers from each country or territory. The number of parcels takes into account the shares actually acquired. 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).
Buyers' origin - Legal persons is compiled from the contents of the reference database for the record of real estate deeds. The database records for each deed, the real right concerned, the identification of the parties and the situation of the real estate property concerned as well as its land register nature. The second database contains various items of information for each legal person from the Crossroads Bank for Enterprises, the authentic source for legal persons.
Summer and winter mean wind speed given in m/s. The wind speed fields 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.
Key indicators on future Belgian climate
Mean key indicators on future climate for Belgium for precipitation, temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, global solar radiation and potential evapotranspiration (spatial distributions are available through the WMS view service). The key indicators are derived from a multi-model ensemble of climate change signals or factors for a mean and high impact scenario (corresponding to respectively the 50th, and 5th or 95th percentile of the change factors), and for multiple future target years (2030, 2050, 2085, 2100).
The European Urban Atlas provides reliable, inter-comparable, high-resolution land use and land cover data for 800 Functional Urban Area (FUA) for the 2012 reference year in EEA39 countries. This datasets contains the FUA for Belgium (Antwerpen, Brugge, Bruxelles_Brussel, Charleroi, Gent, Kortrijk, Leuven, Liege, Mons, Namur and Oostende).
The Urban Atlas is mainly based on the combination of (statistical) image classification and visual interpretation of Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite imagery. Multispectral SPOT 5 & 6 and Formosat-2 pan-sharpened imagery with a 2 to 2.5m spatial resolution is used as input data. The built-up classes are combined with density information on the level of sealed soil derived from the High Resolution Layer imperviousness to provide more detail in the density of the urban fabric. Finally, the Urban Atlas product is complemented and enriched with functional information (road network, services, utilities etc…) using ancillary data sources such as local city maps or online map services.
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
Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium
FPS Finance - General Administration of Patrimonial Documentation (GAPD)