Administrative Units (AU) is one of 12 themes in the European Location Project (ELF). The purpose of ELF is to create harmonised cross-border, cross-theme and cross-resolution pan-European reference data from national contributions. The goal is to provide INSPIRE compliant data for Europe. A description of the ELF (European Location Project) is here: http://www.elfproject.eu/content/overview Encoding: INSPIRE version 4

Eftirfarandi landshlutar eru sóttvarnaumdæmi, sbr. reglugerð 387/2015: Höfuðborgarsvæðið (Reykjavíkurborg, Seltjarnarnesbær, Kópavogsbær, Garðabær, Hafnarfjarðarkaupstaður, Mosfellsbær, Kjósarhreppur og fyrrum sveitarfélagið Þingvallasveit). Vesturland (Akraneskaupstaður, Hvalfjarðarsveit, Skorradalshreppur, Borgarbyggð, Eyja- og Miklaholtshreppur, Snæfellsbær, Grundarfjarðarbær, Helgafellssveit, Stykkishólmsbær, Dalabyggð, Reykhólahreppur, Strandabyggð, Kaldrananeshreppur, Árneshreppur og Húnaþing vestra). Vestfirðir (Vesturbyggð, Tálknafjarðarhreppur, Ísafjarðarbær, Bolungarvíkurkaupstaður og Súðavíkurhreppur). Norðurland (Húnavatnshreppur, Blönduósbær, Skagabyggð, Sveitarfélagið Skagaströnd, Sveitarfélagið Skagafjörður, Akrahreppur, Fjallabyggð, Dalvíkurbyggð, Hörgársveit, Eyjafjarðarsveit, Akureyrarkaupstaður, Svalbarðsstrandarhreppur, Grýtubakkahreppur, Þingeyjarsveit, Norðurþing, Tjörneshreppur, Skútustaðahreppur, Svalbarðshreppur og Langanesbyggð að frátöldum fyrrum Skeggjastaðahreppi). Austurland (Vopnafjarðarhreppur, Fljótsdalshérað, Fljótsdalshreppur, Borgarfjarðarhreppur, Seyðisfjarðarkaupstaður, Fjarðabyggð, Breiðdalshreppur, Djúpavogshreppur og fyrrum Skeggjastaðahreppur). Suðurland (Sveitarfélagið Ölfus, Hveragerðisbær, Grímsnes- og Grafningshreppur, Bláskógabyggð að frátöldu fyrrum sveitarfélaginu Þingvallasveit, Hrunamannahreppur, Sveitarfélagið Árborg, Flóahreppur, Ásahreppur, Skeiða- og Gnúpverjahreppur, Rangárþing ytra, Rangárþing eystra, Mýrdalshreppur, Skaftárhreppur, Sveitarfélagið Hornafjörður og Vestmannaeyjabær). Suðurnes (Sandgerðisbær, Sveitarfélagið Garður, Reykjanesbær, Grindavíkurbær og Sveitarfélagið Vogar).

Þekjan sýnir orkuspársvæði sem koma fram í orkuspá Orkustofnunar. Það eru svæðin Suðurnes, Reykjavík, Vesturland, Vestfirðir, Norðurland, Austurland og Suðurland. Svæðin eru aðeins öðruvísi en í hefðbundinni landshlutaskiptingu þar sem sú skipting er til komin vegna uppbyggingar flutningskerfisins.

Landinu skal skipt upp í eftirfarandi heilbrigðisumdæmi, sbr. reglugerð 387/2015: Heilbrigðisumdæmi höfuðborgarsvæðisins. Heilbrigðisumdæmi Vesturlands. Heilbrigðisumdæmi Vestfjarða. Heilbrigðisumdæmi Norðurlands. Heilbrigðisumdæmi Austurlands. Heilbrigðisumdæmi Suðurlands. Heilbrigðisumdæmi Suðurnesja. Í heilbrigðisumdæmum landsins starfa eftirfarandi heilbrigðisstofnanir: Heilsugæsla höfuðborgarsvæðisins, innan heilbrigðisumdæmis höfuðborgarsvæðisins. Heilbrigðisstofnun Vesturlands, innan heilbrigðisumdæmis Vesturlands. Heilbrigðisstofnun Vestfjarða, innan heilbrigðisumdæmis Vestfjarða. Heilbrigðisstofnun Norðurlands, innan heilbrigðisumdæmis Norðurlands. Heilbrigðisstofnun Austurlands, innan heilbrigðisumdæmis Austurlands. Heilbrigðisstofnun Suðurlands, innan heilbrigðisumdæmis Suðurlands. Heilbrigðisstofnun Suðurnesja, innan heilbrigðisumdæmis Suðurnesja.

Vatnajökull National Park was founded on June 7th 2008, although the act on Vatnajökull National Park was entered into force on May 1st 2007. It is the largest national park in Iceland by far, 14,967 km2. Vatnajökull National Park was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on July 5th 2019. The boundary of Vatnajökull National Park, after its latest expansion on September 22nd 2021. The boundary is drawn in accordance to regulation on Vatnajökull National Park, No 300/2020, with later amendments. Disclaimer: If there is a difference between the data and the regulation text, then the regulation text applies. The data also includes all previous boundaries of the national park as well as current boundaries of operating areas.

The combined Water and Wetness product is a thematic product showing the occurrence of water and wet surfaces over the period from 2009 to 2015. Two products are available: o The main Water and Wetness (WAW) product with defined classes of (1) permanent water, (2) temporary water, (3) permanent wetness and (4) temporary wetness. o The additional expert product: Water & Wetness Probability Index (WWPI) The products show the occurrence of water and indicate the degree of wetness in a physical sense, assessed independently of the actual vegetation cover and are thus not limited to a specific land cover class and their relative frequencies. A verification of the Water and Wetness layer was performed by the Institute of Nature Research during autumn of 2018 and the data and resulting report are made available on the NLSI websites.

The high resolution imperviousness products capture the percentage and change of soil sealing. Built-up areas are characterized by the substitution of the original (semi-) natural land cover or water surface with an artificial, often impervious cover. These artificial surfaces are usually maintained over long periods of time. A series of high resolution imperviousness datasets (for the 2006, 2009, 2012 and 2015 reference years) with all artificially sealed areas was produced using automatic derivation based on calibrated Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). This series of imperviousness layers constitutes the main status layers. They are per-pixel estimates of impermeable cover of soil (soil sealing) and are mapped as the degree of imperviousness (0-100%). Imperviousness change layers were produced as a difference between the reference years (2006-2009, 2009-2012, 2012-2015 and additionally 2006-2012, to fully match the CORINE Land Cover production cycle) and are presented 1) as degree of imperviousness change (-100% -- +100%), in 20m and 100m pixel size, and 2) a classified (categorical) 20m change product. The production of the High Resolution Imperviousness products was coordinated by the European Environment Agency in the frame of the EU Copernicus programme. A verification of the Imperviousness layer was performed by the Institute of Nature Research during autumn of 2018 and the data and resulting report are made available on the NLSI websites.

Ræktunarsvæði er afmarkað svæði sjávar nægjanlega stórt til að rúma þann ræktunarbúnað sem notaður er á viðkomandi svæði. Yfirleitt er um að ræða línur sem strekktar eru á milli flot bauja eða sérstaka ræktunarfleka með lóðréttar ræktunarlínur fáeina metra niður undir yfirborð sjávar . Svæðið er merkt með löglegum sjómerkjum þannig að sjófarendur eiga að geta varast þau, enda einnig merkt inn sjókort Landhelgisgæslunnar. Einungis er ræktuð Bláskel (Kræklingur).

Línurnar sýna friðunarsvæði, þar sem eldi laxfiska (fam. salmonidae) í sjókvíum er óheimilt skv. auglýsingu nr. 460/2004.

The main high resolution grassland product is the Grassland layer, a grassland/non-grassland mask for the EEA39 area. This grassy and non-woody vegetation baseline product includes all kinds of grasslands: managed grassland, semi-natural grassland and natural grassy vegetation. It is a binary status layer mapping grassland and all non-grassland areas in 20m and (aggregated) 100m pixel size. Two additional (expert) products complete the high resolution grassland product: the Ploughing Indicator (PLOUGH) and the Grassland Vegetation Probability Index (GRAVPI). While the PLOUGH concentrates on historic land cover features with the aim to indicate ploughing activities in preceding years, the GRAVPI provides a measure of classification reliability. GRAVPI is a 20m pixel size product, mapping on a range of 1-100 the class probability. PLOUGH is a 20m pixel size additional product, mapping from 1-6 the number of years since the last indication of ploughing. A verification of the Grassland layer was performed by the Institute of Nature Research during autumn of 2018 and the data and resulting report are made available on the NLSI websites.