MARS Geodatabase (5.1.

1):
and Pressure data
18.-19.5.2015
Ljubljana
WP5 to quantify interactions among stressors, and their combined effect on
indicators, across large regions and for Europe as a whole, based on
existing European databases and modelling tools.

• Subtask 5.1.1: compile and integrate European-level data in a geo-

matrix (GIS reference layers WISE SubUnits RBDs layer, ECRINS;
CCM layer, EEA’s EU groundwater body, EEA reference grids, EU
regional and global map; data resulting from various European-wide
databases and models; additional relevant data, e.g. satellite data which
are pro-cessed and ready for use, and targeted data from river basin
authorities)
• Spatial data to follow INSPIRE basics:
geographic coordinate system: ETRS89
to be projected in LAEA
• extent of MARS geodatabase:
 ECRINS FEC-s (“C_Zhyd” grey line)
ECRINS RIVERS (“C-tr” blue lines).
FEC layer: FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTARY CATCHMENT,
derived from CCM2 dataset by EEA; number of polygons:
181000; 7466 km2 the largest; 0.01 km2 the smallest; the
average size is 50 km2;
RIVERS layer; polylines, topologically connected to FEC;
1100000 objects; 7466 km the largest; 0.01 km the
smallest; the average size is 50 km).

“ECRINS_Rivers_123order” ; Rivers_1order; “ECRINS_Catch_order2”

“ECRINS_Catch_order1”
Extent of CORINE land cover
(green line):

? MARS geodatabase extent

Variant 1. EU MS+WBs+Turkey Variant 2: Var 1+Black sea Variant 3: var 2+ White Sea
Black Sea tributaries+Baltic Sea catchment tributaries+Tigris –
Euphrates river system
 For the MARS purposes we have updated attributive part of the ECRINS RIVERS layer
(»ECRINS_Rivers_123order«):

• selected segments that lie or represents first, second and third order
catchments; they were assigned the same order (attribute ‘M_order’
added);
• All segments of rivers that are 1st, 2nd and 3rd order were assigned
unique river identifier (‘M_Rriver_ID’ code).. some segments in ECRINS
do not have any code; some missed segments were added
• All segment of rivers have been assigned river names; there are three
possibilities for river name (two possible national and international);
• All segments were assigned information on a distance of its source
(length of river from its source; information on a distance from its mouth is
already in the ECRINS database; All rivers segments were assigned
information of average altitude (derived from EEA DEM data);

• All rivers segments were assigned information of upstream catchment

area via FEC’s “hinterland polygons” (explained in the case of the Drava
river catchment)
85 rivers 1st order with F >10000 km2
62 rivers 2nd order with F> 10000 km2
18 rivers 3rd order with F> 10000 km2
Hinterland (drainage area) of a
FEC: case a FEC with SoE
stations (river water quality)

FEC code with Size of WISE SOE

WISE SoE station stations
(“ZHYD”) catchments
(hinterland size)
[ Area_km2]
F030003998 2477
F030004228 5289
F030004040 4851
F030004259 7892
examples: F030004121 10699
F030003763 950
F030003654 32
Spatial untis for the analysis/visualisation and communication to managers:
Countries, RBD, SURBD, aggregated FECs, catchments, subcatchments…
Spatial untis for the analysis/visualisation and communication to managers:
Countries, RBD, SURBD, aggregated FECs, catchments, subcatchments…

RBD: 198 objects (clipped with WFD reported “SubUnits RBD

coastal line (SURBD)”: 306 objects (clipped with
coastal line
Regional Seas catchments:
SubUnits by
FEC:
-Inside country:
aggre FEC into
SUFEC

FEC (light
grey)

NUTS2
(red)
- FEC not
positioned in one
NUT: procudures
(rules) prepared to
link them
 Pressures: data in tables (linked via codes to
spatial objects) and aggregated by spatial units
For each hinterland polygon various type of pressures are quantified, qualitatively
determined, described by classes or spatially related:
• CORINE land cover (share/absolute value of land cover classes): agricultural, urban,
forest, water and wetlands
• population density and inhabitants count
• number of point source emissions (industrial, communal)
• “degree of urbanization” (data transferred from NUTS 2) or number of large cities,
• number of urban waste water treatment plants
• population connected to waste water treatment by level of treatment
• emission load of urban waste water (N, P) …… UWWTD databse
• agricultural production (crop products yield, poultry, milk and milk products, livestock
and meat) and use of fertilizers (data transferred from NUTS 2),
• industrial facilities and pollutant releases (E-PRTR database) - mineral, energy, paper
and wood production and processing, intensive livestock production and aquaculture,
beverage sector),
• number of dams and other hydrotechnical structure
• percentage of hydropower potential use for electricity production (potential calculated
from average annual discharge or river and hydrographical head)
 Other pressure data and hydrophysical
descriptors
For each hinterland polygon also other pressures pre-prepared:
• motorway and railway transport network (length/distance to river),
• goods transport by inland waterways (data transferred from NUTS 2),
• waste production and management (from E-PRTR, data transferred from NUTS 2).
Other parameters:
• share of ecoregions and bioregions
• share of natural areas or semi-natural areas along river(s),
• soil properties
• geology- hydrogeology/lithology
Hydrology: for each hinterland polygon hydrological and other natural characteristics parameters:
• average yearly rainfall and temperature
• runoff coefficient
• surface water resources as average yearly river discharge
• length of river from source
• hydrographical head
• altitude of downstream section
• the highest peak (Hmax)
• average slope
• average catchment altitude
• Q95,Q5 (low water)
 Data available:
• On NUTS level: numbers, classes
• In rasters:
• In Spatial form: points with LL,lines,
polygons

Data to be transferred to FECs or lines

(rivers) ……building MARS datamodel