CORINE Land Cover Map datasets for the UK, Jersey and Guernsey
description: This series consists of Corine Land Cover (CLC) datasets. CLC is a dataset produced within the frame of the Initial Operations of the Copernicus programme (the European Earth monitoring programme previously known as GMES) on land monitoring. CLC provides consistent information on land cover and land cover changes across Europe. The inventory was initiated in 1985 (initial year 1990) and then established a time series of land cover information with updates in 2000, 2006 and 2012 the last one being the 2018 reference year. CLC products are based on the analysis of satellite images by national teams of participating countries - the EEA member and cooperating countries - following a standard methodology and nomenclature with the following base parameters: - 44 classes in the hierarchical three level Corine nomenclature; - Minimum mapping unit (MMU) for status layers is 25 hectares; - Minimum width of linear elements is 100 metres; The resulting national land cover inventories are further integrated into a seamless land cover map of Europe. Land cover and land use (LCLU) information is important not only for land change research, but also more broadly for the monitoring of environmental change, policy support, the creation of environmental indicators and reporting. CLC datasets provide important datasets supporting the implementation of key priority areas of the Environment Action Programmes of the European Union as protecting ecosystems, halting the loss of biological diversity, tracking the impacts of climate change, assessing developments in agriculture and implementing the EU Water Framework Directive, among others. Datasets include: land cover for 2012, revised land cover for 2006 and changes in land cover between 2006 and 2012, land cover for 2018 and changes in land cover between 2012-2018.
provenance: ProvenanceStatement
  label: CLC products are based on photointerpretation of satellite images by national teams of participating countries - the EEA member and cooperating countries - following a standard methodology and nomenclature with the following base parameters: 44 classes in the hierarchical three level Corine nomenclature; minimum mapping unit (MMU) for status layers is 25 hectares; minimum width of linear elements is 100 metres; minimum mapping unit (MMU) for Land Cover Changes (LCC) for the change layers is 5 hectares. The resulting national land cover inventories are further integrated into a seamless land cover map of Europe. EEA's Corine Land Cover publications: http://www.eea.europa.eu/publications#c9=all&c7=en&b_start=0&c13=corine+land+cover
spatial: Location
temporal: PeriodOfTime
  start date: 2006-01-01
  end date: 2012-12-31
contact point: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
subject: Land cover
subject: Land Use
subject: Natural Resources
subject: CORINE
type: Collection
language: en

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
type: Organization

Land cover
type: Concept