CORINE Land Cover
Corine Land Cover , and CLC abbreviated, is a project for the uniform classification of the main forms of land cover , which the EU Commission has been initiated. CORINE stands for Coordination of Information on the Environment , Land Cover is the English word for land cover .
Since the mid-1980s, digital satellite images from member states of the European Union have been uniformly recorded for this program and evaluated with regard to land use. Particular attention is paid to changes in use and the connection with environmental problems. Data as well as the maps developed from it are the basis for the determination of biotope types , the extent of surface sealing and further environmental monitoring . The data are checked by the European Environment Agency in Copenhagen .
The data from the first two recording epochs in 1990 and 2000 (especially from Landsat 7 ) are already available to the public as digital maps on a scale of 1: 100,000. The third recording with the reference year 2006 , which has a higher resolution , was completed in January 2010. CORINE land cover data are currently available with the reference year 2012 from 2014.
The digital, largely automatically carried out land use mapping is based on 13 main classes, which are further subdivided depending on the type of use (especially for agriculture ) and comprise a total of 44 uniform European use classes.
See also
- Evaluation examples from CORINE for the cities of Wörgl and Seefeld in Tyrol .
- LCCS (Land Cover Classification System), a classification system for land cover.
- National Land Cover Database , USA
