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Data sources

In short: ParselX uses only open and publicly available data. Below you will find each source's provider, what it is used for, its licence and its citation. The results are for information only; they are not a substitute for a title deed, a zoning status certificate or an official map.

Title deeds, cadastre and plans

Parcel boundary and land type, environmental and zoning plans, public sales.

  • Parcel Lookup (Parsel Sorgu)General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre (TKGM)

    Parcel boundary, block / parcel, area and the land type on the title deed (retrieved at the time of the query; not stored).

    Licence: Publicly accessible service
  • Environmental plans and plan provisionsMinistry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change — General Directorate of Spatial Planning

    Plan sheets, legends and plan provisions (for the Plan Assistant and for quoting the provisions on agriculture).

    Licence: Publicly available document
  • e-PlanMinistry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change

    Zoning plans intersecting the parcel, plan notes and plans on public display.

    Licence: Publicly accessible service
  • Layer intersections (OIZs, investment incentive region, investment areas)Ministry of Industry and Technology (MEYDİP); TUCBS / UCBP

    Overlap with, and proximity to, organised industrial zones, investment incentive regions and public investment areas.

    Licence: Publicly available layer
  • State property sale noticesMinistry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change — General Directorate of National Property

    Tender notices and estimated values (with a link to the notice).

    Licence: Publicly available notice

Earthquakes and natural hazards

Active faults, the earthquake catalogue, and indicators for landslides, river flooding, ground conditions and forest fires.

  • Global Active Faults DatabaseGEM Foundation

    Nearest active fault, fault type and slip rate.

    Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Earthquake catalogueUnited States Geological Survey (USGS)

    Major earthquakes in the surrounding area (1900–).

    Licence: Public domain
  • Forest fire burnt areas (EFFIS)European Forest Fire Information System — Copernicus Emergency Management Service

    Areas burnt since 2016 on the parcel and within 1 / 5 km of it.

    Licence: © European Union (reuse permitted with acknowledgement of the source) · data date 2026-09-29
  • Landslide susceptibility (NASA)NASA — Global Landslide Susceptibility Map (Stanley & Kirschbaum 2017)

    Landslide susceptibility class of the area (≈1 km).

    Licence: NASA open data (commercial use permitted; no NASA endorsement implied) · DOI: 10.1007/s11069-017-2757-y Citation: Stanley, T. & Kirschbaum, D. B. (2017). A heuristic approach to global landslide susceptibility mapping. Natural Hazards, 87, 145–164.
  • Earthquake hazard indicator — 475-year PGA (ESHM20)EFEHR — European Seismic Hazard Model 2020 (ESHM20), mean hazard, PGA, annual probability of exceedance 0.002103 (475 years), rock site (Vs30 ≈ 800 m/s)

    Earthquake hazard indicator (475-year, on rock); for the official design value, the AFAD map is authoritative.

    Licence: CC BY 4.0 · DOI: 10.12686/a15 Citation: Danciu L. et al. (2021). The 2020 update of the European Seismic Hazard Model – ESHM20: Model Overview. EFEHR Technical Report 001, v1.0.0.
  • River flood depth — 10 / 100 / 500-year (JRC / EFAS)European Commission JRC — Copernicus Emergency Management Service (CEMS/EFAS), river flood hazard maps for Europe and the Mediterranean v3.1.1

    Share of the parcel flooded and water depth in 100- and 500-year river floods.

    Licence: Copernicus open product, unrestricted (© European Union) · DOI: 10.2905/1D128B6C-A4EE-4858-9E34-6210707F3C81 Citation: Baugh C. et al. (2024). An updated dataset of global and European flood hazard maps. Copernicus Emergency Management Service, JRC.
  • Estimated ground class (Vs30) — from topographic slopeVs30 estimated from topographic slope (Wald & Allen 2007; Allen & Wald 2009, active tectonic region) — slope from the Copernicus GLO-30 DEM on a 30″ grid

    Estimated ground class from slope (Vs30).

    Licence: Openly published method (USGS); DEM: © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA · DOI: 10.1785/0120060267 Citation: Wald, D. J. & Allen, T. I. (2007). Topographic slope as a proxy for seismic site conditions and amplification. BSSA 97(5), 1379–1395. · Allen, T. I. & Wald, D. J. (2009). BSSA 99(2A), 935–943.

Land, soil, climate and energy

Land cover, soil, elevation and slope, climate normals, solar and wind.

  • PVGISEuropean Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC)

    Solar power output estimate and typical meteorological year (chill hours, hot days, humidity, wind).

    Licence: © European Union (reuse permitted with acknowledgement of the source)
  • Elevation — Copernicus GLO-30 (≈30 m)Copernicus DEM GLO-30 — © DLR e.V. 2010-2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014-2018 provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA

    Slope, aspect and elevation of the parcel.

    Licence: Copernicus DEM licence (free of charge, commercial use permitted with attribution)
  • Land cover (ESA WorldCover 2021)ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200 — © ESA WorldCover project 2021 / Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data (2021) processed by ESA WorldCover consortium

    Land cover shares on the parcel and within 500 m of it.

    Licence: CC BY 4.0 · DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7254221 Citation: Zanaga, D. et al. (2022). ESA WorldCover 10 m 2021 v200.
  • Soil (top 30 cm): clay, sand, silt, pH, organic carbon — SoilGrids 2.0ISRIC SoilGrids 2.0 (WCS, EPSG:4326, ≈250 m); thickness-weighted mean of the 0–5, 5–15 and 15–30 cm layers

    Soil texture, pH and organic matter (top 30 cm).

    Licence: CC BY 4.0 · DOI: 10.5194/soil-7-217-2021 Citation: Poggio, L. et al. (2021). SoilGrids 2.0: producing soil information for the globe with quantified spatial uncertainty. SOIL 7, 217–240.
  • CHELSA V2.1 climate normals (1981–2010, ≈1 km)CHELSA V2.1 — Climatologies at high resolution for the earth's land surface areas (1981–2010)

    Climate normals (rainfall, temperatures, growing degree days): crop suitability and a preliminary estimate of the land class.

    Licence: CC0 1.0 (public domain) · DOI: 10.16904/envidat.228 Citation: Karger, D.N. et al. (2017) Scientific Data 4:170122; Karger, D.N. et al. (2021) CHELSA V2.1, EnviDat.
  • Global Wind Atlas 3Global Wind Atlas 3 (DTU, World Bank, ESMAP)

    Wind speed and capacity factor at a height of 100 m.

    Licence: CC BY 4.0 · DOI: 10.1175/BAMS-D-21-0075.1 Citation: Davis, N. N. et al. (2023). The Global Wind Atlas: A High-Resolution Dataset of Climatologies and Associated Web-Based Application. BAMS 104(8).
  • GHSL — built-up area and population (R2023A)European Commission JRC — GHS-BUILT-S R2023A (Sentinel-2 and Landsat, multitemporal)

    Built-up trend in the area (1975–2020) and population density.

    Licence: CC BY 4.0 (© European Union) · DOI: 10.2905/9F06F36F-4B11-47EC-ABB0-4F8B7B1D72EA Citation: Pesaresi M., Politis P. (2023). GHS-BUILT-S R2023A — GHS built-up surface grid, multitemporal (1975–2030). European Commission, JRC.

Roads, infrastructure and surroundings

Road frontage, power lines, streams and coast, nearby amenities, basemap and travel times.

  • OpenStreetMapOpenStreetMap contributors

    Road frontage, power lines and substations, streams and coast, nuisance sources, nearby amenities and travel-time destinations.

    Licence: ODbL 1.0 · data date 2026-09-29
  • MapboxMapbox (satellite imagery: Maxar)

    Basemap, satellite imagery, place search and on-demand travel times (not stored).

    Licence: Mapbox terms of service · © Mapbox © OpenStreetMap © Maxar

Agricultural legislation and district data

Building norms for agricultural land, sufficient-income land sizes, basin crop pattern.

  • LegislationOfficial Gazette and mevzuat.gov.tr

    Law No. 5403, the Regulation on the Protection and Use of Agricultural Land, the Nitrates Communiqué and decisions on support payments: the "Agricultural norms" table maintained by the site administrators, with source, article and Official Gazette reference.

    Licence: Official text
  • Sufficient-income agricultural land sizesList in Annex 1 to Law No. 5403

    Sufficient-income sizes by district for irrigated, dry, perennial and greenhouse land (the subdivision limit).

    Licence: Official text
  • Basin crop patternMinistry of Agriculture and Forestry — General Directorate of Plant Production

    The district's crops under planned production and its water restrictions (alerts on support payments and permits).

    Licence: Publicly available list

North Cyprus

Planning zones and development orders.

  • Planning zones and development ordersNorth Cyprus Town Planning Department (compiled from publicly available maps)

    Planning zone, development type and special environmental protection areas; map sheets.

    Licence: Publicly available information

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