Corine land cover (CLC1990) 100 m - version 12/2000

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Created : Nov 13, 2009 Published : Mar 07, 2003 Last modified : Nov 29, 2012 11:57 AM

Topics: Land use , Natural resources ,

One of the major tasks undertaken in the framework of the Corine programme has been the establishment of a computerised inventory on the land cover

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Code	Land Cover Code	float(8)
Level2	Land Cover nomenclature labels at level2	nvarchar(510)
Level1	Land Cover nomenclature labels at level1	nvarchar(510)
Level3	Land Cover nomenclature labels at level3	nvarchar(510)

Area statistics by country, biogeographic regions, watersheds and NUTS3.

Datasets and methodolgy used to extract the statistics.

Relation:: Derived data set: Urban morphological zones 1990 (UMZ90); Derived data set: Population density; Derived data set: Corine land cover 1990 (CLC1990) and Corine land cover changes 1975-1990 in a 10 km zone around the coast of Europe
Temporal coverage:: 1990
Last upload:: 22 Aug 2002
Geographical coverage:
Geographic accuracy:: All features were digitised from an interpretation of satellite image printouts of the scale 1:100 000. 150 m positional accuracy (according to CLC specifications), 25 ha minimum mapping unit.
Tags:: EEA owned data sets | land cover | geospatial data | Corine | CLC1990
Scale of the data set:: 1:100000
Rights:: Specific conditions: not to pass the data to third parties without the explicit permission of the EEA
Data sources: The European Topic Centre on Terrestrial Environment: Corine land cover database (Version 12/2000)
Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
Processors:: The European Topic Centre on Land Use and Spatial Information

Data on land cover is necessary for the Environment policy as well as for other policies such as Regional Development and Agriculture. At the same time it provides one of the basic inputs for the production of more complex information on other themes (soil erosion, pollutant emission into the air by the vegetation, etc.). The objectives of the land cover project are: - to provide those responsible for and interested in the European policy on the environment with quantitative data on land cover, consistent and comparable across Europe; - to prepare one comprehensive land cover database for the 15 EC Member States and other European and North African countries, at an original scale of 1: 100 000, using 44 classes of the 3-level Corine nomenclature. See the Corine land cover 1990 brochure.

Geographical coverage note: data set includes parts of Marocco and Tunisia.