Commission Regulation (EU) No 1253/2013

means the grouping of multiple objects into a class or cluster.

means the set of process and activities consisting in cultivating soils, producing crops and rearing animals;

means the combination of multiple objects in a single structure.

means the set of activities and techniques related to the production, breeding and treatment of fish, molluscs, seaweed and other kinds of aquatic resources (vegetables or animal).

means a type that defines additional properties on a relationship between two other types,

means a region of relatively uniform environmental conditions, occupied by a given plant community and its associated animal community.

means any sub-division or element of a building.

means a system for assigning objects to classes, in accordance with ISO 19144-1:2012;

means the statistical description in terms of the mean and variability of relevant quantities over a period of time ranging from months to thousands or millions of years.

means a material of economic interest in an earth resource.

means a spatial object that acts as a function to return values from its range for any direct position within its spatial, temporal or spatiotemporal domain, in accordance with ISO 19123:2007,

means an elevation property measured along a plumb line in a direction coincident to Earth's gravity field (downwards).

(DEM) means Digital Surface Model (DSM) or Digital Terrain Model (DTM).

(DSM) means a surface describing the three dimensional shape of the Earth's surface, including all static features placed on it.

(DTM) means a surface describing the three dimensional shape of the Earth's bare surface, excluding as possible any other features placed on it.

means a coverage that returns the same feature attribute values for every direct position within any single spatial object, temporal object or spatiotemporal object in its domain, in accordance with EN ISO 19123:2007;

means a collection of spatial objects where the habitat type occurs, giving information on the occurrence of one specific habitat type in time or space across analytical units.

means a well-defined set, in accordance with ISO/TS 19103:2005,

means a vertically-constrained dimensional property of an spatial object consisting of an absolute measure referenced to a well-defined surface which is commonly taken as origin.

means the direct or indirect release of substances, vibrations, heat or noise from individual or diffuse sources in the facility into the air, water or soil.

means energy from renewable non-fossil sources, namely wind, solar, aerothermal, geothermal, hydrothermal and ocean energy, hydropower, biomass, landfill gas, sewage treatment plant gas and biogases, in accordance with Article 2 of Directive 2009/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.

means a concentration or occurrence of an energy source which may have been present, is present or may be present in the future.

means an objective depiction of the use and functions of a territory as it has been and effectively still is in real life.

means people, property, systems, or other elements present in hazard zones that are thereby subject to potential losses.

means a form of non-renewable primary energy formed by natural processes such as the anaerobic decomposition of buried dead organisms, which contains high percentages of carbon and includes coal, crude oil, and natural gas.

means an objective depiction as a regular orthorectified grid (image) of the use and functions of a territory as it has been and effectively still is in real life.

means the locality in which a plant or animal naturally grows or lives.

means a habitat in terms of its exact location, size (area or volume) and biological information (e.g. occurring habitat types, structural traits, lists of species, vegetation types).

means an abstract type classified to describe habitats or biotopes that are common in some characteristics on a certain level of detail.

means a dangerous phenomenon, substance, human activity or condition that may cause loss of life, injury or other health impacts, property damage, loss of livelihoods and services, social and economic disruption, or environmental damage.

means an elevation property measured along a plumb line in a direction opposite to Earth's gravity field (upwards).

means a multi-level classification system for Land Use whose use is mandatory at the most appropriate level.

means a dynamic process for the sustainable management and use of coastal zones, taking into account at the same time the fragility of coastal ecosystems and landscapes, the diversity of activities and uses, their interactions, the maritime orientation of certain activities and uses and their impact on both the marine and land parts.

means a spatial object (point, pixel or polygon) where the land cover has been observed;

means a document that specifies legal obligations, including, but not limited to, international conventions, laws and legal acts or implementing regulations at any administrative level.

means the application of a classification in a specific area using a defined mapping scale and specific data set;

refers to animals being bred and/or raised for use or profit (covered by the activities defined under NACE codes A.1.4. and A.1.5).

(LAT) means the lowest tide level which can be predicted to occur under average meteorological conditions and under any combination of astronomical conditions.’

means plan, perform, monitor and control activities to achieve specific legally defined environmental objectives.

(MSL) means the average height of the surface of the sea at a tide station for all stages of the tide over a 19-year period, usually determined from hourly height readings measured from a fixed predetermined reference level (chart datum).

means an excavation for the extraction of mineral deposits, including underground workings and open-pit workings (also called open-sky mines) for the extraction of metallic commodities, as well as open workings for the extraction of industrial minerals, (which are commonly referred to as quarries).

means the smallest area size of a polygon allowed to be represented in a particular land cover data set;

means the smallest polygonal area for the land use objects taken into consideration in the data set.

means the process of extracting metallic or non-metallic mineral deposits from the Earth.

means an image composed of multiple overlapping or adjoining photographs or images merged together.

means a value that has a hierarchical relationship to a more general parent value.’

means natural resources which, due to long-term formation, cannot be produced, grown, generated, or used on a scale which can sustain its consumption rate.

means a combination of subsets from several homogeneous orthoimage coverages forming a new orthoimage coverage.

means spatial plans, defined by spatial planning authorities, depicting the possible utilization of the land in the future.

means energy that has not been subjected to any conversion or transformation process.

means an activity consisting of a series of actions or operations in a productive context.

means attribute or association role,

means a set of feature attribute values associated by a function with the elements of the domain of a coverage, in accordance with EN ISO 19123:2007,

means a usually rectangular pattern of parallel scanning lines forming or corresponding to the display on a cathode ray tube, in accordance with EN ISO 19123:2007.

means a grid for which there is an affine transformation between the grid coordinates and the coordinates of a coordinate reference system, in accordance with EN ISO 19123:2007,

means a grid associated with a transformation that can be used to convert grid coordinate values into values of coordinates referenced to an external coordinate reference system, in accordance with EN ISO 19123:2007,

means monitor and control certain activities (to permit, promote, prohibit, or restrict) to achieve a legally defined environmental objectives.

means evaluate the effectiveness of environmental policies and publish data and information (i.e. spatial data, observations, statistics, indicators) that can be used to assess progress towards maintaining or improving good environmental status and achievement of policy objectives.

means a spatial object that provides the spatial reference for any non-spatial data exchanged under environmental reporting obligations.

means prohibit or limit certain activities, to only be performed within specific bounds and/or time periods, in order to achieve a certain purpose according to legally defined responsibilities or obligations.

means the combination of the consequences of an event (hazard) and the associated likelihood/probability of its occurrence, in accordance with ISO/IEC 31010:2009.

means an objective depiction of the use and functions of a territory [as it has been and effectively still is] in real life as observed in sampled location.

means the state of a particular land cover object at a particular point in time.

means a taxonomic category ranking immediately below a genus and including closely-related and morphologically similar individuals which actually or potentially inbreed.

means a partitioning of a space into a set of conterminous subspaces having the same dimension as the space being partitioned.

means a type consisting of one and only one of several alternatives (listed as member attributes), in accordance with ISO/TS 19103:2005,

means the plants of an area considered in general or as communities, but not taxonomically.

means plants (or total mass of plant life) of a given area considered in general or as plant communities, but not taxonomically.

means the characteristics and circumstances of a community, system or asset that make it susceptible to the damaging effects of a hazard.

means a fuel that may consist of many different materials coming from combustible industrial, institutional, hospital and household waste such as rubber, plastics, waste fossil oils and other similar commodities.

means a partition where the planned land use is depicted, making explicit the rights and prohibitions regarding new constructions that apply within each partition element.