Corine land cover 2000 coastline

Topics: Coasts and seas ,

Complete coastline features for all the countries that produced Corine land cover 2000 and have a coastline, with detailed descriptions on the environment and type of coastal areas

GIS data

zipped personal geodatabase, vector data, polyline

clc_coastline_2006_07_10.zip (ZIP archive)
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Methodology

Reference coastline

rpf_refcoastline_2006_07_10_og.pdf (PDF document)
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Additional information

Each coast segment has inherited the Corine land cover 2000 class, and also the attributes from Eurosion shoreline, version 2.1 2004, regarding geomorphology, type of coast and erosion trends.

Produced maps and graphs

Corine land cover 2000 coastline

Relation:: Parent data set: Shoreline; Derived data set: Elevation breakdown
Publish date:: 02 Mar 2006
Last upload:: 14 Jul 2006
Geographical coverage:: EU25, EU27, EU12, EU15, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia
Geographic accuracy:: 100 m
Tags:: CLC2000 | land cover | geospatial data | coast | vector data | Corine
Scale of the data set:: 1:100000
Rights:: For non commercial use only. Please fill in the agreement form.
Methodology:: The shape of this european coastline is based on the Corine land cover 2000 features. The intersection between Corine land cover "sea and ocean" class and any other class was selected as the "initial coastline". Then the classes "estuaries" and "intertidal flats" were added to the marine environment if they were connected to the sea, having a direct connection to the sea, or through other "estuaries" or "intertidal flats". This is the shape of the coastline, that has inherited the Corine land cover class attribute as well. The attributes from Eurosion coastline were added. Through a simple allocation process from the Eurosion coastline segments, and a identity procedure afterwards, the coastline was splitted in more segments, each of those inheriting the correspondent eurosion segment code.
Coordinate reference system:: EPSG:4258
Owners:: European Environment Agency
Processors:: The European Topic Centre on Land Use and Spatial Information