This dataset includes the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) orthophotos created in 2018. The images cover the entire Brussels Capital Region, with a resolution of 5 centimeters.

Brussels-Capital Region : location of the different surface water biological quality monitoring sites under the Water Framework Ordonnance and Directive. Surface waters concerned are surface water bodies: Canal, Senne and Woluwe. Monitoring involves a series of biological parameters.

Brussels-Capital Region: Map of the areas affected by historical flooding (past events). Prepared in accordance with Article 4 of the European Flood Directive 2007/60/EC.

Brussels-Capital Region: location of the three aircraft noise restriction zones defined by the order of the Government of the Brussels-Capital Region of 27 May 1999 on the fight against the noise generated by air traffic.

Brussels-Capital Region : this directive has as an aim the prevention of the major accidents implying of dangerous substances and the limitation of their consequences for the man and the environment, in order to ensure in a coherent and effective way in all the country of the high levels of protection. The geographical data file SEVESO consists of several classes of objects which make it possible to locate all the SEVESO sites on the territory of the area of Brussels.

Brussels-Capital Region: localization of the discharge points of the two treatment stations of wastewater and rainwater of the Brussels agglomeration.

Brussels-Capital Region: The nitrate-vulnerable zone is a protected area against the pollution of groundwaters caused by nitrates from agricultural sources. It was designated in accordance with the prescriptions of the European Directive 91/676/EEC, by the Ministerial Order of 25 May 1999.

Brussels-Capital Region : Big industrial installations that are reported under the framework of directive 2010/75/EU of 24 november 2010 on industrial emissions (« IED »). This directive aims to prevent and reduce, with an integrated approach, air, water and soil pollution that comes from industrial installations. It gathers different directives focussing on industrial emissions. The dataset consists of the reported installations, but excluding dry cleaning services.

Brussels-Capital Region: Delineation of the Brussels agglomeration, in accordance with the directive 91/271/EEC concerning urban waste water treatment. The agglomeration is there defined as "an area where the population and/or economic activities are sufficiently concentrated for urban waste water to be collected and conducted to an urban waste water treatment plant or to a final discharge point". It corresponds to the two collecting basins of the waste water treatment plants of Brussels-North and Brussels-South.