EMODnet Seabed Habitats collated habitat maps
Data holdings of polygonal habitat maps in European waters.
Data are collated by EMODnet Seabed Habitats partners from a variety of source datasets and conformed and standardised into the portal's INSPIRE-compliant schema (for more information, please see https://emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/def .
Habitats are described in a variety of classification systems, including EUNIS (European Nature Information System), Habitats Directive Annex I and local/other classifcation systems.
Ownership of the individual maps is retained by the original owners, for more information please see the individual metadata record tied to the map, which can be seen in the query response.
Maps are available indivudually through EMODnet Seabed Habitats' "maplibrary" OGC service endpoints: For WMS (view) access to maps, please use https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_view_maplibrary/wms? For WFS (download) access to open maps, please use https://ows.emodnet-seabedhabitats.eu/geoserver/emodnet_open_maplibrary/wfs?
Data and resources
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Collated data available as features through the EMODnet Seabed Habitats WFSHTML Open
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Collated data available as images through the EMODnet Seabed Habitats WMSHTML Open
Additional information
| Temporal extent | 1900-01-01 – 2019-12-31 |
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| Date (publication) | 2019-02-20 |
| Status | onGoing |
| Update frequency | asNeeded |
| Metadata language | en |
| License | Data may be used freely subject to any additional clauses contained within individual data licenses described within the "Restriction" field for each dataset contained within this database. Data should be attributed to the owner described within the "Contacts" field of the data itself. |
| Source metadata | ISO 19115 XML |
| Last updated | 2026-11-04 |
| Created | 2026-11-04 |
| API | package_show |