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Administrative land accounting units
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Administrative land accounting units (Land analytical and reporting units, LARU, used in LEAC), zipped shape file format, raster
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nutsv9_leac.zip
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Last upload:
- 03 Sep 2007
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Geographical coverage:
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Geographic accuracy:
- 1 000 m
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Tags:
- LEAC | raster data | geospatial data | administrative | NUTS
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Scale of the data set:
- 1:1000000
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Rights:
- EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
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Methodology:
GISCO NUTS v9 was reprojected to LAEA 5210 ETRS89 and rasterized using the standard 1 Km grid. Only the cells with CORINE data were kept. A proximity surface (Thiessen polygons) was created in order to fill the gaps in the coastal zone (spatial disadjustment between GISCO and CORINE). A table with the codes and definitions (english names) was prepared. Special codes for the lakes and the "No NUTS" areas were created using the country code + wildcards. For the lakes we used the wildcard "#" and for the "No Nuts" the "?" wildcard. For example FR??? stands for a lake in France while UA??? stands for a No NUTS area assingned to Ukraine but maybe belonging to Romania. The "No NUTS" are border areas assigned to other countries due to the spatial disadjustment between GISCO and CORINE.
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Coordinate reference system:
- EPSG:3035
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Data sources
EUROSTAT GISCO Database. Layer NUTS v9
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Owners:
- European Environment Agency (EEA)
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Processors:
- The European Topic Centre on Land Use and Spatial Information
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Additional information
Administrative land accounting units are used to allocate land cover changes and to relate socio-economic processes to land cover dynamics. The GISCO database (Eurostat) provides a medium-scale layer for regional administrative boundaries (NUTS) covering the entire EU territory. The hierarchy of administrative land accounting units allows the analysis of the data at various scales, from NUTS 3 (province level) to NUTS 0 (country level). A mixed level, combining NUTS 3 and NUTS 2 was defined in order to homogenize the size of the units.
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