Administrative land accounting units

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Prod-ID: DAT-93-en
Created 01 Jan 2002 Published 01 Jan 2002 Last modified 28 Jun 2016
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GISCO administrative boundaries (NUTS) v9 generalised using the 1 km reference grid for the Land cover accounts project (LEAC)

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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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Last upload:
03 Sep 2007
Geographic accuracy:
1 000 m
Scale of the data set:
1:1000000
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).
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.

Coordinate reference system:
EPSG:3035
Data sources

EUROSTAT GISCO Database. Layer NUTS v9

Owners:
European Environment Agency (EEA)
Processors:
The European Topic Centre on Land Use and Spatial Information

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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