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European Monitoring of Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes (EMBAL)

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European Monitoring of Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes (EMBAL) is a project was commissioned by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Environment (DG ENV). It is a LUCAS-compatible field survey that visits 500 × 500m plots chosen from a 2 × 2 km grid across all EU-27 during the peak phenological period. In each campaign it records land-cover, landscape elements, habitat types, plot-scale biodiversity and pollination resources.

This EMBAL viewer provides access to EMBAL data and plots without georeferenced information or the field photographs collected by surveyors.

If you are interested in using the EMBAL data with geolocation and/or photos taken in the survey, please fill in the Research proposal template provided below and send it to JRC-EMBAL-DATA@ec.europa.eu

Contributors

DG ENV; EFTAS; Institute for Agricultural Ecology and Biodiversity

How to cite

1,2,3 (2026): European Monitoring of Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes (EMBAL). European Commission, Joint Research Centre [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.H0E5N7G PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/723355a8-e549-4691-9c0d-83ab7fc7a0c4

Keywords

agriculurebiodiversity

Data access

EMBAL data viewer
HTML

HTML is the standard markup language used to create web pages and its elements form the building blocks of all websites.
Web service/API

A resource that holds a web service to the dataset.

Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

According to the European Commission reuse notice, reuse is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by the Decision of 12 December 2011. The general principle of reuse can be subject to conditions which may be specified in individual copyright notices. Therefore users are advised to refer to the copyright notices of the individual websites maintained under Europa and of the individual documents. Reuse is not applicable to documents subject to intellectual property rights of third parties.

Access conditions
No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

Request EMBAL full data access
Word DOC

DOC is a proprietary binary Word document format used by Microsoft Word word processor.
Downloadable file

A downloadable file for the dataset.

Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

According to the European Commission reuse notice, reuse is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by the Decision of 12 December 2011. The general principle of reuse can be subject to conditions which may be specified in individual copyright notices. Therefore users are advised to refer to the copyright notices of the individual websites maintained under Europa and of the individual documents. Reuse is not applicable to documents subject to intellectual property rights of third parties.

Access conditions
No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

Temporal coverage

From date To date
2022-09-15 2023-09-15

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Contact email
JRC-EMBAL-DATA (at) ec.europa.eu
Update frequency
annual

The event occurs once a year.

Data theme(s)
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food

dataset theme covering the domains of agriculture which involves the cultivation of plants and livestock; fisheries which focuses on the harvesting of fish from wild or farmed sources; forestry which relates to the management and conservation of forests and woodlands; and food which includes substances that provide nutritional support to organisms

Geographical name(s)
European Union
Issued date
2025-09-15
Created date
15 Sep 2025 11:41
Modified date
09 Oct 2025 08:52
Landing page
https://jeodpp.jrc.ec.europa.eu/eu/vaas/voila/render/refocus/embal-dashboard-development/EMBAL_anon.ipynb 
Dataset identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/723355a8-e549-4691-9c0d-83ab7fc7a0c4
Other identifiers
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