db4cfdd3-0687-4460-a2c7-fd10ca29c214 European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu pointOfContact 2026-01-27T14:24:46.067352Z ISO 19115/19139 1.0 EPSG:3035 EEA coastline for analysis (raw) - version 3.0, Mar. 2017 2017-03-28 creation 2017-03-28 publication 3.0 eea_v_3035_100_k_coastline-raw_p_1995-2012_v03_r00 DAT-132-en The EEA coastline for analysis is created for highly detailed analysis, e.g. 1:100 000, for geographical Europe. The coastline is a hybrid product obtained from projects using satellite imagery as data source: EUHYDRO (https://land.copernicus.eu/imagery-in-situ/eu-hydro) and GSHHG (http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/). The defining criteria was altitude level = 0 from EUDEM (https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/satellite-derived-products/eu-dem/view). Outside the coverage of the EUDEM, the coastline from GSHHG was used without modifications. A few manual amendments to the dataset were necessary to meet requirements from EU Nature Directives, Water Framework Directive and Marine Strategy Framework Directive. In 2015, several corrections were made in the Kalogeroi Islands (coordinates 38.169, 25.287) and two other Greek little islets (coordinates 36.766264, 23.604318), as well as in the peninsula of Porkkala (around coordinates 59.99, 24.42). In this revision (v3, 2017), 2 big lagoons have been removed from Baltic region, because, according to HELCOM, are freshwater lagoons. European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark sdi@eea.europa.eu http://www.eea.europa.eu WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link European Environment Agency public website pointOfContact European Environment Agency Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen K 1050 Denmark mette.lund@eea.europa.eu irene.barrio@eea.europa.eu custodian https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/public/catalogue-graphic-overview/db4cfdd3-0687-4460-a2c7-fd10ca29c214.png Biodiversity EEA topics 2022-10-18 publication 2020-09-24 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.eea-topics Sea regions GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeutheme-theme Europe Continents, countries, sea regions of the world. 2015-07-17T12:00:00 publication 2015-07-17 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.place.regions coast coastal area GEMET 2021-11-30 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.gemet Spatial scope 2019-05-22 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.external.theme.httpinspireeceuropaeumetadatacodelistSpatialScope-SpatialScope 2018 2.6.1 EEA Management Plan 2023-05-31 publication 2021-08-25 publication geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.eea-mp /Métropole /Métropole/Manche mer du Nord /Métropole/Mers Celtiques /Métropole/Golfe de Gascogne /Métropole/Méditerranée occidentale Sous-regions marines geonetwork.thesaurus.local.place.dcsmm.area /Etat du Milieu/Littoral Thématiques - SIMM geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.simm.thematiques /Données administratives Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.type_jeux_donnee /Données dérivées/Références statistiques Type de jeux de donnée - ODATIS geonetwork.thesaurus.local.theme.type_jeux_donnee License CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). no limitations to public access https://land.copernicus.eu/imagery-in-situ/eu-hydro vector 100000 utf8 oceans elevation -32.00 70.00 20.00 82.00 1995-08-01 2012-12-31 SHP 1.0 https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_v_3035_100_k_coastline-raw_p_1995-2012_v03_r00 EEA:FOLDERPATH https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/db4cfdd3-0687-4460-a2c7-fd10ca29c214 WWW:URL Direct download https://marine.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Marine/EEA_coastline_v2017/MapServer ESRI:REST EEA coastline for analysis - version 3.0, March 2017 https://marine.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Marine/EEA_coastline_v2017/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS OGC:WMS 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 2010-12-08 publication See the referenced specification The criteria for defining the coastline is the line separating water from land. The EEA coastline is a product derived from two sources: EUHYDRO (https://land.copernicus.eu/imagery-in-situ/eu-hydro) and GSHHG (http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/) A priority defined in the input data, first EUHYDRO geometry and, as auxiliary data, GSHHG dataset. The EUHYDRO do not cover the required extension of EEA coastline. The EUHYDRO gaps are in Iceland, Canarias, Madeira, Azores, small islands (not represented in EUDEM) and the northern of Black Sea. For that reason, the GSHHG dataset is an input for the process which allow to populate the EUHYDRO shapefile. The creation process was focused on generate the coastline as line datasets and, later, as secondary product, defining the polygon layer sea-land. Thank reiterative processes based on conversion (from water mask of EUHYDRO to polygon), selection, dissolving and conversion (to line) tools, it was possible to obtain a continuous and homogeneous coastline. The fundamental step into the workflow was the selection of sea features using the water mask polygon (with 255 value into EUHYDRO datasets). The inland water bodies (freshwaters) are rejected by these criteria, except the water bodies connected, at least by one point, to the sea (it is the cases of some transitional water bodies). Two Baltic lagoons have been modified with the data from SVAR geodatabase version 2012_2, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI). The patchwork coastline has been subjected to quality assessment based on evaluate the degree of coverage and topological errors.