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UID 262
Name Riparian Zones Land Cover / Land Use
Description Riparian zones represent transitional areas occurring between land and freshwater ecosystems, characterised by distinctive hydrology, soil and biotic conditions and strongly influenced by the stream water. They provide a wide range of riparian functions (e.g. chemical filtration, flood control, bank stabilization, aquatic life and riparian wildlife support, etc.) and ecosystem services. The Riparian Zones products will support the objectives of several European legal acts and policy initiatives, such as the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020, the Habitats and Birds Directives and the Water Framework Directive. Land Cover/Land Use (LC/LU) classification is tailored to the needs of biodiversity monitoring in a tailored buffer zone along large and medium-sized European rivers (with Strahler levels 3-8 derived from EU-Hydro). LC/LU is extracted from VHR satellite data and other available data in a buffer zone of selected rivers. The classes follow the pre-defined nomenclature on the basis of MAES typology of ecosystems (Level 1 to Level 4) and Corine Land Cover, providing 80 distinct thematic classes with a Minimum Mapping Unit (MMU) of 0.5 ha and a Minimum Mapping Width (MMW) of 10 m. The production of the Riparian Zones products was coordinated by the European Environment Agency in the frame of the EU Copernicus programme.
Update Frequency Irregular
Area EEA39
Temporal 01 Jan. 2011 - 31 Dec. 2013
Timeliness Latest version available
Data Policy Full and Open
Data type Geospatial data
Copernicus service product
Data format Vector dataset
Quality Control Procedure Manual
Dissemination View and Download Service
Inspire themes

Annex II: Land cover

Annex III: Land use
Geographical Coverage

Multiple Countries /Not a specific country
Status -
State Ready
Created on June 10, 2018, 11:03 p.m.
Last modified on April 11, 2024, 8:32 a.m.

Data Providers

Data provider UID Data provider Role Is network Created on Last modified on
5 European Environment Agency Distributor May 29, 2020, 12:10 p.m. April 11, 2024, 8:32 a.m.

Requirements

Requirement UID Requirement Level of compliace Note Information costs Handling costs Created on Last modified on
264 Land Cover - Water Fully Used for plausibility checks and error detection. Oct. 11, 2018, 12:47 p.m. June 23, 2022, 12:20 p.m.
146 Land Cover Fully Additional Information on Land Cover/Land Use (LC/LU) for product generation. Full compliance for product generation. Used for calibration of the path distance for the Riparian Zones modeling, limited to Riparian Features only. Partial compliance for calibration/validation. Oct. 19, 2018, 12:19 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
436 Land Cover Partially Partial coverage of EEA39. May 13, 2020, 11:33 p.m. July 26, 2022, 5:27 p.m.
487 Land Use Partially Thematic classes are a mixture of land cover and land use. Coverage may not be complete. June 15, 2021, 11:28 a.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
112 Land cover Partially Coverage could be not complete. The dataset accuracy could be lower than target. Number of thematic classes could be lower than specified in the requirement section. April 27, 2026, 4:52 p.m. April 27, 2026, 4:52 p.m.