Gögnin veita upplýsingar um stærð, staðsetningu og tegundir náttúruverndarsvæða á Íslandí samræmi við lög nr.60/2013 um náttúruvernd. The data provides information about location, size and types of nature conservation areas in Iceland according to the nature conservation act nr. 60/2013.

ELF Protected Sites (PS) 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