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Land cover 100x100m | Corine Land Cover |
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Soil sealing 100x100m | HRL imperviousness 2006 |
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Forest 25x25m | JRC Forests 2006 |
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Roads and land use | Open Street Map OSM 2013 | Europe (except Germany, France): http://download.geofabrik.de/europe.html Germany and France: http://osmdata.thinkgeo.com/openstreetmap-data/europe/ | Constantly updated product |
Digital elevation 100x100m | EU DEM | Altitude, slope, aspect, landform, upper tree line | |
Soil 1:1 Mio. | European soil type map | Soil Datasets > Data > European Soil Database > Raster Library 1kmx1km |
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Environmental regions ca. 1:1 Mio. | Environmental stratification | Metzger, M, Bunce, RGH, Jongman, RHG, Mucher, CA & Watkins, JW 2005, 'A climatic stratification of the environment of Europe' Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 14, pp. 549-563. | Including main climatic variables |
Potential natural vegetation 1:2,5 Mio | Bohn & Neuhäusl |
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Phenology 250x250 m | HANTS (Harmoniz ed time series of adjusted MODIS NDVI data) | ALTERRA, Gerbert Roerink | Differentiation arable land vs. grassland |
Habitats | EUNIS | Not spatially explicit; using EUNIS – Corine cross-walk | |
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Ecosystem types 2x2 arc minutes | NCEAS dbSEABED | Based on hard or soft substrate differentiation | |
Bathymetry 30x30 arc second | GEBCO 08 Grid | http://www.gebco.net/data_and_products/gridded_bathymetry_data/ | Global bathymetry data sets for the world's oceans. |
Sea zones | VLIZ World EEZ v7 (20.11.2012) still under revision! | Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ, 2012), http://www.marineregions.org | EEZ is the sea zone over which a state has the right to manage and use the marine resources. |
Coastal areas 100 x 100m | CLC Coastal area 2000,2006 | ftp://lusiftp@lusiftp.uab.es/222_51_EcosystemMapping/Coastpasswd lusiftp | The coastal area (10 km stripe) based on CLC v16. |
Sea ice 1x1km | NASA MODIS_M OD29 2000- present | The sea ice algorithm identifies pixels as sea ice, ocean, land, inland water, cloud or other condition. |