# Flanders Marine Institute

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/flanders-marine-institute/  
**Website:** https://geo.vliz.be/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

The Flanders Marine Institute (Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee, VLIZ) is the Belgian coordination and information platform for marine research, and the operator of Marine Regions, the World Register of Marine Species gazetteer infrastructure and the EMODnet data portals. Its geospatial estate is one of the largest openly callable marine OGC surfaces in Europe.

## Kin Score — 5.9 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (1)

- **Flanders Marine Institute OGC Web Services (WMS / WFS)** — OGC-standard web services served from a GeoServer instance. Verified anonymously on 2026-08-20: a WMS 1.3.0 GetCapabilities document declaring 1146 layers and a WFS 2.0.0 GetCap...

## Tags

Geospatial, OGC, WMS, WFS, Open Access, GIS

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/flanders-marine-institute/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.