Geometries (coastline, transitional waters, inland waters, dams,
culverts, and river network), topological relationships and topological
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Improved functionality
consistency have been significantly improved.
EU-Hydro
The feature data extraction in the EU-Hydro upgrade has been more
accurate than first EU-Hydro due to the use of Very High Resolution
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The number of hydrographic objects has been increased, mainly in this
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feature classes: river network, inland water, culverts and islands.
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N2K
EU-DEM
Image Data (2,5 metre resolution).
HRL
Visualization of the coastline improvement in Duero basin.
Dissemination
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Monitoring
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Space
HR-VHR Mosaics
Reference Data: EU-Hydro
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Introduction
EU-Hydro is based on classification of Image 2006, and for all EEA39
countries provides a river network and a drainage model with
catchments and drainage lines (derived from EU-DEM).
Geographical Coverage Mapping Units:
33 EEA members: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus,
Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein,
Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland,
enriching of the dataset with new features.
Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey and United Kingdom.
6 cooperating countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the
River Network: 1:30.000 scale resolution for linear objects and a
Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (F.Y.R.O.M.), Montenegro,
minimum 1:50.000 scale resolution for derived polygons.
Serbia and Kosovo.
Drainage Network: production scale for generation of vector
objects (lines) ranges from 1:30.000 to 1:50.000.
InlandWater: a large body of water entirely surrounded by land.
Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany,
The objective of EU-Hydro upgrade is enhancement of quality and
Recommendation for use:
River_Net_p: a naturally flowing watercourse.
Transit_p: any water the level of which changes periodically due
to tidal action.
Coastal_p: coastlines and shorelines of these feature class are
used as additional feature for orientation to attach inland
hydrologic features.
RiverBasins: is the area that a river drains including its
tributaries.
Formats:
ESRI File Geodatabase including HYDRO Feature Dataset that includes
12 Feature Classes in turn.
Geodatabase format is compatible with shapefile format due to the
implementation of the data model (field name with less than 10
characters).
Temporal Reference:
The feature data extraction has been performed with imagery from
2006, 2009 and 2012.
Content of River Network dataset
Culverts: an enclosed channel for carrying a watercourse (for
example: a stream, a sewer, or a drain) under another watercourse
(for example: a stream, a canal, or a ditch).
Visualization of Duero basin at 1:50.000 scale
Minimum Mapping Unit (MMU):
1 ha / 10000 square metres.
The feature data extraction has been performed by photointerpretation of Very High Resolution Image Data (2011 - 2013), with
resolution of 2.5 metres.
Topological relationships in EU-Hydro data model.
Content of Drainage Network dataset
Drainage Network Streams, Nodes and Basins automatically
extracted directly from the EU-DEM dataset at the original 25 m pixel
resolution by using standard functions of the open source GRASS GIS
Nodes: a point joining two segments. They are placed on
headwaters and mouths of each watercourse, on confluences of
watercourses, on inlets and outlets of watercourses into water
polygons and in dams derived from ECRINS.
and the Atlantic islands), as well as 6 complete L1 drainage regions
Canals_l: an artificial waterway with no flow, or a controlled flow,
usable or built for navigation.
Drainage Network Streams, Nodes and Basins. Drainage Network
Ditches_l: an artificial waterway with no flow, or a controlled
flow, usually unlined, used for draining or irrigating land.
software. The dataset is divided into 5 regions covering the major
isolated land-masses (Scandinavia, British islands, Asia (TR), Iceland
covering the continental Europe. Attribute fields are used for relating
topology values are computing according to Strahler, Horton, Shreve
and Hack standard ordering systems, as well as based on Topological
dimension of the network.
Resolution:
River Network derived from 20 metres resolution imagery. Feature
data extraction performed with 2.5 metres resolution imagery.
Drainage Network derived from 25 metres resolution DEM.
River_Net_l: a naturally flowing watercourse.
Polygon coverages of Horton hierarchical network sub-basins are
Canals_p: an artificial waterway with no flow, or a controlled
flow, usable or built for navigation.
connected by their object_id values to the main layer of Drainage
Ditches_p: an artificial waterway with no flow, or a controlled
flow, usually unlined, used for draining or irrigating land.
Network.
computed for levels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7. All those layers are
Network Basins, and through it – to Streams/Nodes of the Drainage