High Resolution Layer: Tree Cover Density Iceland 2015

The high resolution forest product consists of three types of (status) products and additional change products. The status products are available for the 2012 and 2015 reference years: 1. Tree cover density providing level of tree cover density in a range from 0-100% 2. Dominant leaf type providing information on the dominant leaf type: broadleaved or coniferous 3. A Forest type product. The forest type product allows to get as close as possible to the FAO forest definition. In its original (20m) resolution it consists of two products: 1) a dominant leaf type product that has a MMU of 0.5 ha, as well as a 30% tree cover density threshold applied, and 2) a support layer that maps, based on the dominant leaf type product, trees under agricultural use and in urban context (derived from CLC and high resolution imperviousness 2009 data). For the final 100m product trees under agricultural use and urban context from the support layer are removed. The high resolution forest change products comprise a simple tree cover density change product for 2012-2015 (% increase or decrease of real tree cover density changes).



A verification of the Tree Cover Density layer was performed by the Natural Science Institute of Iceland during autumn of 2018 and the data and resulting report are made available on the NLSI websites.

Simple

Date (Publication)
2019-01-11
Cited responsible party
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

European Environment Agency

eea.enquiries@eea.europa.eu

Owner

Natural Science Institute of Iceland

natt@natt.is

Custodian
Presentation form
Digital map
Status
Completed
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Theme

  • Downloadable data

  • Copernicus

  • hrl

  • Tree Cover Density

  • High Resolution Layer

  • 2015

  • Pan-European

  • TCD

  • Evrópuverkefni
Place

  • Iceland
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Use limitation

Access to data is based on a principle of full, open and free access as established by the Copernicus data and information policy Regulation (EU) No 1159/2013 of 12 July 2013. This regulation establishes registration and licensing conditions for GMES/Copernicus users and can be found here. Free, full and open access to this data set is made on the conditions that:



1. When distributing or communicating Copernicus dedicated data and Copernicus service information to the public, users shall inform the public of the source of that data and information.



2. Users shall make sure not to convey the impression to the public that the user's activities are officially endorsed by the Union.



3. Where that data or information has been adapted or modified, the user shall clearly state this.



4. The data remain the sole property of the European Union. Any information and data produced in the framework of the action shall be the sole property of the European Union. Any communication and publication by the beneficiary shall acknowledge that the data were produced “with funding by the European Union”.

Access constraints
Copyright
Use constraints
otherRestictions
Other constraints

no limitations to public accsess
Spatial representation type
Grid
Language

eng
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Boundaries
Begin date
2014-01-01
End date
2016-12-31
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Reference system identifier
EPSG / 5325 / 9.5.4
Number of dimensions
2
Dimension name
Column
Dimension size
30395
Resolution
20  meter
Dimension name
Row
Dimension size
27765
Resolution
20  meter
Cell geometry
Area
Transformation parameter availability
Yes
Distribution format
Name Version

GeoTIFF

1.0

Digital transfer options

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		http://www.lmi.is/

Webside Natural Science Institute of Iceland

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		https://atlas.lmi.is/LmiData/index.php

Natural Science Institute of Iceland Download Site

OGC:WMS

 		https://gis.lmi.is/geoserver/High_Resolution_Layer/wms?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

Tree Cover Density, TCD

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

 		https://kort.lmi.is/

Geoportal
Hierarchy level
Dataset

Conformance result

Title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2019-01-15
Explanation

See the reference specification
Pass
Yes
Statement

NLSI has verified the Tree Cover Density layer in three steps: 1. General overview 2. Look and feel and 3. Statistical verification

Quality report is available along with the data on the download site.

Metadata

File identifier
ba6f0ed5-77aa-42aa-ae13-e3e16d7e033a XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2026-09-29T13:31:17.19758565Z
Metadata standard name

INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules: Technical Guidelines based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119
Metadata standard version

V. 1.2
Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Natural Science Institute of Iceland

natt@natt.is

Point of contact
 
 

Overviews

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Spatial extent

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Keywords

2015 Copernicus Downloadable data Evrópuverkefni High Resolution Layer Pan-European TCD Tree Cover Density hrl
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