High Resolution Layer: Imperviousness Iceland 2015

The high resolution imperviousness products capture the percentage and change of soil sealing. Built-up areas are characterized by the substitution of the original (semi-) natural land cover or water surface with an artificial, often impervious cover. These artificial surfaces are usually maintained over long periods of time. A series of high resolution imperviousness datasets (for the 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2015 reference years) with all artificially sealed areas was produced using automatic derivation based on calibrated Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). This series of imperviousness layers constitutes the main status layers. They are per-pixel estimates of impermeable cover of soil (soil sealing) and are mapped as the degree of imperviousness (0-100%). Imperviousness change layers were produced as a difference between the reference years (2006-2009, 2009-2012, 2012-2015 and additionally 2006-2012, to fully match the CORINE Land Cover production cycle) and are presented 1) as degree of imperviousness change (-100% -- +100%), in 20m and 100m pixel size, and 2) a classified (categorical) 20m change product.



The production of the High Resolution Imperviousness products was coordinated by the European Environment Agency in the frame of the EU Copernicus programme.



A verification of the Imperviousness 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.

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Date (Publication)
2019-01-17
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

  • Imperviousness

  • High Resolution Layer

  • 2015

  • Pan-European

  • IMD

  • 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
35000
Resolution
20  meter
Dimension name
Row
Dimension size
30000
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/

Heimasíða Náttúrufræðistofnunar / Homepage of the 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

Imperviousness IMD

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 Imperviousness 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
cafff29d-1617-4520-b16f-e19bfc60ce88 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2026-09-29T13:14:40.766861605Z
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
 
 

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Keywords

2015 Copernicus Downloadable data Evrópuverkefni High Resolution Layer IMD Imperviousness Pan-European hrl
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