Product details

Name	Urban Atlas
Acronym	UA
Description	Urban Atlas main product provides data on urban spatial pattern across Europe and pan-European comparable land use and land cover data for Functional Urban Areas (FUA). It is based on Very High Resolution data. The first product for the reference year 2006 covered 305 FUA, typically including cities with over 10.000 inhabitants. The second product with reference year 2012 is a extended version and covered 785 Functional Urban Areas (FUA) in the EU28, EFTA countries, West Balkans and Turkey. The new product with reference year 2018 includes some changes in covered FUA (now >800).
Note
Status	Operational
Group	LLC Urban Atlas
Area	Europe
Component	Priority Area Monitoring
Service	Copernicus Land Monitoring Service
Entrusted Entities	European Environment Agency Joint Research Centre
Created on	Nov. 6, 2017, 1:53 p.m.
Last updated on	April 8, 2024, 11:54 a.m.

Requirements

UID	Requirement	Level of definition	Relevant for	Criticality	Barriers	Note	Created on	Last updated on
144	Administrative Boundaries	Firm	Product generation	Essential	Availability Coverage Data policy	used for creating a backbone structure for the object geometry	Nov. 9, 2018, 1:19 p.m.	Dec. 18, 2020, 7:47 a.m.
326	Transportation and railway network	Firm	Product generation	Essential	Accuracy Coverage	to be ingested into the classification database; detection of road and railway network	Nov. 9, 2018, 2:45 p.m.	Nov. 5, 2021, 11:59 a.m.
146	Land Cover	Firm	Product generation	Essential	Resolution	sealing level information from the HRL IMD complements the results of the EO data interpretation in terms of sealing density	Nov. 9, 2018, 2:47 p.m.	June 23, 2022, 12:17 p.m.
218	Topographic maps	Firm	Product generation	Essential	Accuracy Availability Coverage Data policy Format Resolution Update Frequency	used for interpretation and classification	Nov. 9, 2018, 2:20 p.m.	June 23, 2022, 12:18 p.m.
219	Orthoimagery - Very High Resolution - Up-to-date - Homogenous	Firm	Product generation	Useful	Availability Costs Coverage Data policy Timeliness Update Frequency	Potential additional data for creating a backbone structure for the object geometry as well as for interpretation and information on land cover/land use	Nov. 14, 2020, 10:07 p.m.	May 23, 2024, 8:42 a.m.
219	Orthoimagery - Very High Resolution - Up-to-date - Homogenous	Firm	Calibration and validation	Desirable	Availability Costs Coverage Data policy Timeliness Update Frequency	used for complementing the database concerning calibration and validation	May 20, 2020, 10:34 p.m.	May 23, 2024, 8:42 a.m.
487	Land Use	Reasonable	Calibration and validation	Useful	Availability Coverage Update Frequency	Reference data used for the identification and validation of land use classes	June 15, 2021, 12:58 p.m.	May 23, 2024, 8:58 a.m.
415	Degree of soil sealing	Firm	Product generation	Desirable	Accuracy Timeliness	Used for the classification at level 4 of the residential or mixed use urban fabric units classified from Earth Observation (EO) data	April 23, 2020, 11:07 a.m.	April 16, 2024, 9:53 a.m.