Surface Wetland of Cantal

In the legal sense, the Law on Water of January 1992 defines wetlands as “land, whether or not exploited, usually flooded or sprinkled with #x27; fresh, salted or brackish water permanently or temporarily; vegetation, where it exists, is dominated by hygrophile plants for at least part of the year”. They are also cited in sections 127 and 128 of the Law 2005-157 on the development of rural territories (including an addition of Article L. 211-1-1 to the Code of the Environment).In practice, their determination (also called " cartography; in terms of rendering) is carried out locally at the scale of the basin, the region, or even the department under control of ' the work of the agency, of the DREAL or of the department; a departmental community... Their suppliers and descriptions may therefore be diverse.Not taken into account here the so-called Ramsar areas.The Sandre has established a dictionary &Wetlands Inventories; a common core of their description, allowing for the exchange of information and data sharing. __Origin__ The surveys were carried out by service providers who had to comply with the terms of the Specific Technical Specifications of the following study market: The reference scale of the geographical database “natural risks” of the DDT of the Côte d'Or is the 1/5 000th, nominal scale of the RGE (large-scale referential) of the IGN. In order to facilitate the work of data entry and structuring by the contractor, the contracting authority shall make available the relevant data from the following repositories: — Aerial orthophotographs: BDOrtho; — BDTopo; — 25 colour scan; — Vector cadastre to PCI standard (section/parcel/building)." __Partner organisations__ DDT Cantal __Links annexes__ * [XML metadata view](http://ogc.geo-ide.developpement-durable.gouv.fr/csw/all-dataset?REQUEST=GetRecordById&SERVICE=CSW&VERSION=2.0.2&RESULTTYPE=results&elementSetName=full&TYPENAMES=gmd:MD_Metadata&OUTPUTSCHEMA=http://www.isotc211.org/2005/gmd&ID=fr-120066022-jdd-d0152b62-4bd2-4f74-95cc-fcc9ec1d1e74) [See this page on geo.data.gouv.fr](https://geo.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/a34a74326c57704015db7acf38c5351192110004)