Axis 1.

Improving the knowledge on Mediterranean wetland functions, services and values, as well as on their status and trends

1.4 Pan-European High Resolution Layers (HRL) for Water, Wetlands and Grasslands (ongoing)

  • Lead Organization: Indra Espacio (space division of Indra, a major technology global company based in Spain
  • Other partners: EUROSENSE, RapidEye, UAB GEOMATRIX, EKBY, DL
  • Funding: The project is funded by the GMES Initial Operations program 2011-13 under a public contract awarded by The European Environment Agency.
  • Brief Description: The project falls in the Land Monitoring Service of the pan-European Land Cover component. It is part of a framework service contract which has as overall objective the production of 5 seamless European coverages (all of the EEA39 countries) of high resolution land cover characteristics of 5 main land cover types (i.e. artificial surfaces, forest areas, agricultural areas, wetlands and water bodies) for the reference year 2012. In particular, this project regards the mapping of Wetlands, as areas covered permanently or temporarily of surface water considering seasonal changes too, Permanent Water Bodies and Permanent Grasslands, at a spatial resolution of 1 ha.
  • Time schedule: 2012 – 2014 (36 months)
  • Current status: Implementation began in January 2012. Service providers then worked on streamlining activities that will ensure a homogeneous coverage throughout the EEA’s 39 countries, and are currently in full production modus.