Date (Creation)

2016-08-04

Citation identifier

EEA / edaf6c6e-2557-11e9-ac07-14abc58d5215

Credit

Data was produced with funding by the European Union. Copyright Copernicus Programme

DISCLAIMER: National Geographic Institute has undertaken to distribute the data on behalf of EEA under Specific Contract No 3436/R0-Copernicus/EEA.57005 implementing Framework service contract No EEA/IDM/R0/16/009/Belgium. National Geographic Institute accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to the content and use of these data.”

The European Environment Agency accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to the information on this site and the information does not necessarily reflect the official opinion of the EEA or other European Communities bodies and institutions.

Status

Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Geographic Institute	Johannes Van Geertsom	johannes.van.geertsom@ngi.be	Custodian

Maintenance and update frequency

Unknown

Data.gov.be themes

• Science and technology

Belgian Federal Thesaurus

• Land and natural area cover and use

Spatial scope

• National

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Land use
• Land cover

GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01

• land cover
• urban area
• land
• environment

Keywords

• 2012

• Urban Atlas

• UA2012

• Land

• Copernicus

• HVD_cat_land use, HVD_cat_land cover

Use limitation

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

No limitations on public access

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Spatial representation type

Vector

Language

English

Character set

8859 Part 15

Description

Belgium

Unique resource identifier

EPSG:3812

Codespace

EPSG

Distribution format

Name	Version
Esri Shapefile

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

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.

Metadata

File identifier

edaf6c6e-2557-11e9-ac07-14abc58d5215 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2026-01-27T13:56:38

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
National Geographic Institute	Floor Van Damme	metadata@ngi.be	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
French
Dutch; Flemish
German
English	UTF8