I&CLC 2000 Applications report
LAND USE OF THE ROMANIAN RIVERS CATCHMENTS AREAS
Domain of the application: Protecting human health and quality of life; Water management - WFD
Policy driver: Water Framework Directive (WFD)
Country/Region: Romania
ABSTRACT
The European Topic Center on Inland Water (ETC/IW) has designed an information and monitoring
network (EUROWATERNET) for European Environment Agency (EEA) in order to provide information
that meet the requirements of its customers including the European Commission, other makers,
national regulatory bodies and the general public. Romania, as part of this network, has to provide
information about its inland water resources and water quality issues. Romanian Waters National
Administrative body is in charge of the implementation of the EUROWATERNET program in the
country and has requested to the Danube Delta National Institute to build the GIS database of
Romanian hydrological network.
Therefore, CORINE Land Cover database provides the support for the creation of a Romanian
hydrological network in GIS format and for the assessment of land use upstream the hydrological
monitoring stations of Romanian rivers in order to implement the monitoring and information network
EUROWATERNET program designed by the ETC/IW. The main aim of the project then, is to describe
and analyse the land use of the Romanian rivers drainage basins upstream the monitoring stations
according with the EUROWATERNET requirements.
Figure 1. Land cover corresponding to the catchments area upstream the monitoring stations
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Methodology used
Creation of the GIS layers following the EUROWATERNET technical guidelines (Nixon S.,
et.al.,1998). The drainage basins layer was created by digitising 130 map sheets (scale 1:100000) of
the land register atlas of the Romanian rivers, geographical coordinates of the field gauges were used
for location of the monitoring stations and the land use layer was produced by reclassifying CLC1990
classes according with EUROWATERNET classes. The final GIS processing extract the land cover
distribution of the catchments areas upstream the hydrological monitoring stations by overlapping the
spatial information of all layers.
Results obtained and outlook
The project has result in building the hydrological network of Romania in GIS format which includes
five spatial layers: rivers drainage basins, location of hydrological monitoring stations, rivers
catchments area upstream the monitoring stations, CORINE Land Cover 1990 reclassified after
EUROWATERNET and land cover corresponding to the catchments area upstream the monitoring
stations. It is an important step for further GIS analysis that may help in the implementation of the
Water Framework Directive in Romania.
References
NIXON, S., GARTH, J., BOGESTRAND J. (1998): The European Environment Agency’s Monitoring and
Information Network for Inland Water Resources, Technical Guidelines for Implementation – European
Environment Agency
If you wish to obtain more information about this application, please contact with
Danube Delta National Institute
Babadag Str. 165, 8800 Tulcea, Romania
Adrian Constantinescu
adrian@indd.tim.ro
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