WFS - WFD: Surface Water Body Profiles for Saxony, 2022-2027

Profiles are available for all Saxon surface water bodies with key information for the 2022-2027 management period under the Water Framework Directive. The dataset includes master data, condition, goals, loads, and measures for each water body. This service, provided by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, is used to visualize water bodies and link to profile files.

Use Cases

• Visualizing the spatial distribution of surface water bodies based on the geospatial service.
• Assessing water body condition and pollution loads based on the condition and loads data.
• Planning and tracking environmental measures based on the goals and measures data.
• Linking detailed profile information to a geographic map based on the master data.

Strengths

• Covers all surface water bodies in the German state of Saxony.
• Includes key management information for a defined six-year period from 2022 to 2027.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Time Range

2022-2027

Geography

Saxony, Germany