Urban Atlas

The Urban Atlas is providing pan-European comparable land use and land cover data for Large Urban Zones with more than 100.000 inhabitants as defined by the Urban Audit. The GIS data can be downloaded together with a map for each urban area covered and a report with the metadata.

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Methodology

Compiled from thousands of pictures from European satellites, Urban Atlas provides sufficient coverage for detailed and cost-effective mapping of larger urban zones, yielding accurate land cover and usage data. Urban Atlas' mission is to provide high-resolution hotspot mapping of changes in urban spaces and indicators for users such as city governments, the European Environment Agency (EEA) and European Commission departments. More than 300 major cities in the EU will be covered by early 2011.

Additional information

For methodological info, please refer to: http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/urban-atlas/.

This is a selection of maps for a limited number or large urban zones (1 sample map per country). The full set of maps (in PDF format) and the underlying GIS vector data can be downloaded from EEA data service (see the link in section: Releated content).

Link to the related map viewer: http://land.copernicus.eu/local/urban-atlas/urban-atlas-2006/view.

Urban Atlas

Related content

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