- aggregation
means the grouping of multiple objects into a class or cluster.
- Agriculture
means the set of process and activities consisting in cultivating soils, producing crops and rearing animals;
- amalgamation
means the combination of multiple objects in a single structure.
- Aquaculture
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).
- association class
means a type that defines additional properties on a relationship between two other types,
- biotope
means a region of relatively uniform environmental conditions, occupied by a given plant community and its associated animal community.
- building component
means any sub-division or element of a building.
- classification system
means a system for assigning objects to classes, in accordance with ISO 19144-1:2012;
- climate
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.
- commodity
means a material of economic interest in an earth resource.
- coverage
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,
- depth
means an elevation property measured along a plumb line in a direction coincident to Earth's gravity field (downwards).
- digital elevation model
(DEM) means Digital Surface Model (DSM) or Digital Terrain Model (DTM).
- digital surface model
(DSM) means a surface describing the three dimensional shape of the Earth's surface, including all static features placed on it.
- digital terrain model
(DTM) means a surface describing the three dimensional shape of the Earth's bare surface, excluding as possible any other features placed on it.
- discrete coverage
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;
- distribution (of habitat types)
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.
- domain
means a well-defined set, in accordance with ISO/TS 19103:2005,
- elevation
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.
- emission
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.
- energy from renewable sources
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.
- energy resource
means a concentration or occurrence of an energy source which may have been present, is present or may be present in the future.
- existing land use
means an objective depiction of the use and functions of a territory as it has been and effectively still is in real life.
- exposure
means people, property, systems, or other elements present in hazard zones that are thereby subject to potential losses.
- fossil fuels
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.
- gridded existing land use
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.
- habitat
means the locality in which a plant or animal naturally grows or lives.
- habitat feature
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).
- habitat type (or biotope type)
means an abstract type classified to describe habitats or biotopes that are common in some characteristics on a certain level of detail.
- hazard
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.
- height
means an elevation property measured along a plumb line in a direction opposite to Earth's gravity field (upwards).
- Hierarchical INSPIRE Land Use Classification System (HILUCS)
means a multi-level classification system for Land Use whose use is mandatory at the most appropriate level.
- integrated coastal zone management
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.
- land cover object
means a spatial object (point, pixel or polygon) where the land cover has been observed;
- legal instrument
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.
- legend
means the application of a classification in a specific area using a defined mapping scale and specific data set;
- Livestock
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).
- lowest astronomical tide
(LAT) means the lowest tide level which can be predicted to occur under average meteorological conditions and under any combination of astronomical conditions.’
- manage
means plan, perform, monitor and control activities to achieve specific legally defined environmental objectives.
- mean sea level
(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).
- mine
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).
- minimal mapping unit
means the smallest area size of a polygon allowed to be represented in a particular land cover data set;
- minimum unit of interest
means the smallest polygonal area for the land use objects taken into consideration in the data set.
- mining activity
means the process of extracting metallic or non-metallic mineral deposits from the Earth.
- mosaic
means an image composed of multiple overlapping or adjoining photographs or images merged together.
- narrower value
means a value that has a hierarchical relationship to a more general parent value.’
- non-renewable energy
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.
- orthoimage aggregation
means a combination of subsets from several homogeneous orthoimage coverages forming a new orthoimage coverage.
- planned land use
means spatial plans, defined by spatial planning authorities, depicting the possible utilization of the land in the future.
- primary energy
means energy that has not been subjected to any conversion or transformation process.
- production
means an activity consisting of a series of actions or operations in a productive context.
- property
means attribute or association role,
- range
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,
- raster
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.
- rectified grid
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,
- referenceable grid
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,
- regulate
means monitor and control certain activities (to permit, promote, prohibit, or restrict) to achieve a legally defined environmental objectives.
- report
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.
- reporting unit
means a spatial object that provides the spatial reference for any non-spatial data exchanged under environmental reporting obligations.
- restrict
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.
- risk
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.
- sampled existing land use
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.
- situation
means the state of a particular land cover object at a particular point in time.
- species
means a taxonomic category ranking immediately below a genus and including closely-related and morphologically similar individuals which actually or potentially inbreed.
- tessellation
means a partitioning of a space into a set of conterminous subspaces having the same dimension as the space being partitioned.
- union type
means a type consisting of one and only one of several alternatives (listed as member attributes), in accordance with ISO/TS 19103:2005,
- vegetation
means the plants of an area considered in general or as communities, but not taxonomically.
- vegetation type
means plants (or total mass of plant life) of a given area considered in general or as plant communities, but not taxonomically.
- vulnerability
means the characteristics and circumstances of a community, system or asset that make it susceptible to the damaging effects of a hazard.
- waste as energy resources
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.
- zoning
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.