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Corine Land Cover 1990 raster data

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Created 01 May 2002 Published 01 May 2002 Last modified 25 Aug 2017
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The Corine land cover database provides a pan-European inventory of biophysical land cover, using a 44 class nomenclature

European data

Land cover grid look up table

Look up table for shading of the land cover grid data

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LCGRCD Land Cover GRid CoDe (file sorted on this item) 0
SYMBOL Shade symbol see also: Data set LCEU 0
Land cover Europe grid 250m * 250 m grids

Relevant items of the value attribute table (LCEUGR250.VAT)

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VALUE Land Cover class (1-44) numeric 0
COUNT Number of occurences of value numeric 0
LCGRCD Land Cover GRid Code numeric 0
Land cover Europe look up table

Colour definitions (for land cover shading) in RGB values

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LCGRCD Land Cover GRid CoDe numeric 0
LCCD Land Cover CoDe ooo 0
SYMBOL Shade symbol (see also: Data set LCEU) 0
RVALUE Red component of the shade symbol colour 0
GVALUE Green component of the shade symbol colour 0
BVALUE Blue component of the shade symbol colour 0

Methodology

Corine land cover methodology and illustrations
Corine land cover technical guide volume 2

Additional information

Land cover class names lcds.txt
Corine Land cover statistics per watershed. Version 06-1999
Corine land cover statistics per country. Version 06-1999
Corine Land cover statistics per biogeographical region. Version 06-1999

Metadata

information.png 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.
information.png Rights:
Specific conditions: not to pass the data to third parties without the explicit permission of the EEA
information.png Data sources

The Corine land cover project history in each country
The Corine land cover database. Version 06-1999

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

Additional information

It is made available on a 250m by 250m grid database which has been aggregated from the original vector data at 1:100 000. Corine land cover is a key database for integrated environmental assessment.
Geographical coverage note: data set includes parts of Morocco and Tunisia.

 

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Produced figures

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Geographic view of land cover and its 44 classes
Figure Areas in EU eligible under the regional objective of the Structural Funds (1994-99) The most relevant of these objectives from a rural areas perspective are: - Objective 1, applying to regions which are lagging behind economically, with a GDP of less than 75% of the EU average; - Objective 5a providing support for downstream processing of agricultural produce as well as investment aid and compensatory allowances in less favoured areas; - Objective 5b, applying to rural areas with a low level of socio-economic development, high dependency on agricultural employment, low agricultural incomes and population problems (low density or declining population); - Objective 6, applying to regions north of the 62nd parallel with a very low population density (less than 8 inhabitants/sq
Figure Pressures from urbanisation and transport on semi-natural areas Urban sprawl is increasing, but there are insufficient data available to enable an assessment of the extent to which the re-use of previously developed land is reducing pressures for development on virgin land.
Figure
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Pressures by urban areas and transport network
Figure
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Areas remote from urban and transport pressures Assessment of sensitive areas (natural and semi-natural lands) remote from urban areas and transport infrastructures, so-called "areas of low pressure"
Figure Agricultural intensification of grassland
Figure EUNIS habitats based on Corine land cover
Figure Data availability in EU for hot spots analysis
Figure Designated areas under pressure from railways
Figure Urban expansion in Dublin
Figure Wetlands and water bodies
Figure Fragmentation by major roads of large forest complexes (>600 km²)
Figure
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Fragmentation of large forests
Figure Designated areas under pressure from agricultural areas
Figure Agricultural areas
Figure Regional predominant pressures on wet grassland
Figure Areas with relatively little influence from urbanisation, transport or intensive agriculture Note: Based on EEA Land cover data per November 1997
Figure Zoom in on urban and rural areas The focus is on regions that are already very highly urbanised and the occurrence of urbanisation patterns
Figure Ratio of forest and semi-natural areas to agriculture and urban areas by administrative unit
Figure Agricultural abandonment of grassland
Figure Urban expansion in Porto
Figure Forest around capitals in Europe
Figure Fragmentation by urbanisation, infrastructure and agriculture
Figure Dominant landscapes Landscapes as groupings of landcover types
Figure Designated areas under pressure from roads
Figure Deposition of sulphur in the Black Triangle, 1997
Figure Regional coincidence of some environmental pressures and impacts (hot spots)
Figure Urban, rural, coastal and mountain areas in Europe
Figure Grassland and sparsely vegetated areas
Figure Designated areas under pressure from urban areas
Figure Distribution of major habitats
Figure Forest and semi-natural area per inhabitant by administrative unit
Figure Wooded species
Figure Zoom in on mountain and coastal areas Perpignan-Torino What happens in the coastal zone is important to all Europeans
Figure Forests
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Forested areas
Figure Population density and land cover in coastal areas
Figure Built-up land by major river catchment area
Figure EUNIS habitat types per biogeographic region
Figure Regional predominant pressures on coniferous forest
Figure Regional predominant pressures on dry grassland
Figure
Draft
Grasslands
Figure
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Coastal zone Degree of urbanisation, risk zones of oil spills and polluted water bodies in coastal zones

Used in indicators

Indicator Specification
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Exposure of ecosystems to acidification, eutrophication and ozone (version 1) The indicator shows the ecosystem or crops areas at risk of exposure to harmful effects of acidification, eutrophication and ozone as a consequence of air pollution, and shows the state of change in acidification, eutrophication and ozone levels of the European environment. The risk is estimated by reference to the 'critical load' for acidification and eutrophication and 'critical level' for ozone for each location, this being a quantitative estimate of the exposure to these pollutants below which significant and harmful such effects do not occur in the long term at present knowledge. Two critical loads, for acidity and for nutrient nitrogen, are employed to describe exposure to acidification and to eutrophication respectively. The area over which the deposition of acidifying and eutrophying pollutants is in exceedance of critical loads provides an indication of the ecosystem area in which such damage could occur. The magnitude of the potential risk is displayed as the percentage of total ecosystem areas exposed to exceedence of these critical loads.  By showing the change in risk over time, the state of change in acidification and eutrophication is displayed. By including the risk to be met within a legislative target and year the distance from this target is displayed. The fraction of agricultural crops  that is potentially exposed to ambient air concentrations of ozone in excess of the EU target value set for the protection of vegetation is also shown.

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For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/corine-land-cover-clc1990-250-m-version-06-1999 or scan the QR code.

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