geo.be Metadata Catalog
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Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.
The Copernicus Urban Atlas (UA) provides European, comparable and detailed land use and land cover maps for the main Functional Urban Areas (FUAs). The Urban Atlas Street Tree Layer (UA-STL) is a separate layer of the Urban Atlas 2012. It includes contiguous rows or patches of trees covering 500 m² or more with a minimum width of 10 m within the urban mask of the Urban Atlas 2012. Gaps between tree patches or within a larger patch that are less than 10m wide are included in the Street Tree Layer. There is no thematic content other than the presence or absence of trees. The UA-STL is a new product and no accuracy threshold was provided as part of the Urban Atlas specifications. The UA STL product validated currently covers just over 7% of the total UA2012 area.
The STL is a separate layer from the Urban Atlas 2012 LC/LU layer produced within the Urban Atlas 2012 LC/LU urban mask for each FUA. The production of the Street Tree Layers was performed on the basis of SPOT 5 Supermode data used for the Urban Atlas 2012 production acquired between March and November months with a preference for spring and late summer imagery. An interactive automated classification approach was applied to identify contiguous rows or a patches of trees covering 500 m² or more and with a minimum width of 10 m. A post-processing routine was applied to provide the results in vector format.
This dataset contains the orthophotos of the floodable areas along the Meuse, the Vesdre and the Demer. These orthophotos are digital aerial photographs, taken by Hansa Luftbild following the floods of July 2021, 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 resolution of the data is 6.5 cm (4 cm above the Hoëgne).
•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 orthophotos were created from digital aerial photographs. The resolution of the aerial photographs (8 bits) is 25 cm, but they come from the original orthos with a resolution of 6.25 cm (4 cm above the Hoëgne) obtained by processing the aerial photographs taken by Hansa Luftbild on 18, 20 and 21 July at the request of the NGI over the valleys of the Meuse, the Vesdre and the Demer. The orthophotos are georeferenced in the “Lambert 2008” co-ordinate system.
Cadastral Parcels - INSPIRE corresponds to the dataset of Belgian plan cadastral parcels complying with INSPIRE specifications. This dataset is composed of two classes. The first class contains cadastral zoning and the second class contains cadastral parcel. The entire dataset can be downloaded via the ad hoc WFS.
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).
The dataset Cadastral Parcels - INSPIRE is derived from the dataset Land register plan - situation on January 1st This is taken from the reference database for the land register data, CadGIS, whose situation is fixed on January 1st of the reference year. The land register plan is continuously updated by the Patrimonial Documentation on the basis of information collected during legal changes (mutations) (on the basis of acts, declarations, judgements and rulings) and physical changes (on the basis of declarations, plans, documents, expertises and information provided by the municipalities) to the properties, as well as through improvement operations undertaken at the initiative of the Patrimonial Documentation as described in articles 5 to 8 of the Royal Decree of July 30th 2018. The land register plan is a set of data from the Geographical Information System of the Patrimonial Documentation and is mainly made up of the following categories of information: real estate property: cadastral plan parcels (property boundaries), buildings as well as certain material and equipment structures; street names, addresses, named places; reconstitutions perimeters as well as perimeters as regards polder and watering areas; administrative and cadastral limits.
INSPIRE download service for general marine datasets-ATOM
INSPIRE compliant download service (ATOM) for geographic information of general marine datasets made available by the Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS).
Area management/restriction/regulation zones and reporting units
Physical disturbance to the seabed dataset in support of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) Descriptor 6 (D06C02, 2018 Reporting)
This dataset is part of the 2018 Belgian submission for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) linked to descriptor 6, criterion 2. This dataset describes and maps the physical disturbance to the seabed in the Belgian part of the North Sea (BPNS) between 2011 and 2016. The dataset combines different layers of human activities leading to a disturbance of the seabed, including power cables with its rock dump, dredging and dumping, extraction, war ammunition stocking and wind farms. The area disturbed is mapped and quantified per year, per activity and per benthic broad habitat.
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
(Criteria) D6C2 - Physical disturbance to the seabed
This dataset is the result of a combination of five smaller shapefiles representing power cables with its rock dump, dredging and dumping area, extraction area, war ammunition stocking area and wind farms. Original data were described in different coordinates system such as WGS84, ED50 and ETRS89. A buffer is applied around line geometry to create a serie of polygon that are reprojected in WGS84. Finally all shapefiles are dissolved and published in INSPIRE compliant ETRS89-LAEA projection. The data is then dynamically made available through WFS and statically converted to an INSPIRE-compliant GML file.
Summer and winter mean wind speed given in m/s. The wind speed 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.
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.
The entities included in the dataset represent the physical network in the sense of the Inspire European directive. The dataset comprises several classes and is in accordance with the INSPIRE specifications. The Wetland class represents poorly drained or periodically flooded portions of land, the soil of which is saturated with water but where vegetation is nevertheless able to develop. The StandingWater class represents flooded areas that are, nevertheless, completely surrounded by land.
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.
Characteristics of the cadastral parcels - Land use
Characteristics of the cadastral parcels - Land use corresponds to the dataset describing the cadastral nature of the parcels such as recorded by the FPS Finance for tax purposes. This dataset is composed of seven classes. The first class shows, at the national level, for each type, the number of parcels, their cadastral income and their total surface area, as well as the median cadastral income of the plots. 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.
Characteristics of the cadastral parcels - Land use is is compiled from the contents of the reference database for the land register data. It records, for each parcel, its type (that is to say, its use), its cadastral income (i.e. the annual net rental value of the property on January 1st 1975, the reference year for property tax purposes) and its surface area. 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.
Benthic habitat condition dataset in support of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) Descriptor 6 (D06C05, 2018 Reporting)
This dataset is part of the 2018 Belgian submission for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) linked to descriptor 6, criterion 5. It comprises three datasets used to assess the sea floor integrity for ensuring a proper functioning of the ecosystem.The dataset on the study of the fauna associated with cobble fields (hard substrates) describes the gravel analysis performed in the Belgian part of the North Sea between 2015 and 2017. Information on the location, date and procedure used for the sediment sampling is provided as well as the description of species found in the samples.The occurrence of important benthic species. The status of benthic habitats (soft substrates).
(Criteria) D6C5 - Benthic habitat condition
Data on cobble fields benthic species are gathered by MARECO, those on soft substrate and important benthic species by ILVO, 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.
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 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, ...
Download service as regards the display of cadastral parcels
View service as regards the cadastral parcels
FPS Finance - General Administration of Patrimonial Documentation (GAPD)
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences, Directorate Natural Environment, GeoCell
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Ecosystems data processing and modelling (ECODAM)
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature)
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Instituut voor Landbouw- en Visserijonderzoek - Visserij (ILVO)
Buildings is the INSPIRE 2D vector data set of the "Constructions" layer originated from the Top10vector product of the National Geographic Institute in Belgium . It includes the "Building" features and the "OtherConstruction" features in accordance with the INSPIRE specifications.
Occupation and planning of sea and land areas
The INSPIRE data set is generated from the TOP10Vector-contruction data source . https://www.geo.be/catalog/details/1f4296b0-76f6-4f1b-8880-315406b367e1?l=en
Windmill locations in the Belgian Part of the North Sea
This dataset represents the exact location of the wind turbines in the Belgian Part of the North Sea.
This dataset represents the location of each built windmills and has not been modified or altered.
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.
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.
View service - Historical orthophotos 2010s
Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), GeoCell