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Dominant land cover types 1990

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Created 01 Apr 2005 Published 01 Apr 2005 Last modified 24 Aug 2017

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Topics: Land use Resource efficiency and waste

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Dominant land cover types are defined by classification of the CORILIS layers into dominant classes

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Dominant land cover types 1990 (5, 10, 20 & 25 Km). Zipped tiff format, raster

Dominant land cover types 1990 (5, 10, 20 & 25 Km). Zipped tiff format, raster (ZIP archive)
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Methodology

Methodology document for dominant land cover types, pdf format

Methodology document for dominant land cover types, pdf format (PDF document)
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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 (https://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Methodology:: Reclassifying smoothed features into Dominant Land Cover types. The criterion Vn > mean + standard deviation was used to assign dominant character to smoothed features. Vn is the smoothed value of class n in a given cell of the map. A different mean + std dev was computed for each Biogeographic Region. As co-dominances can exist a supplementary criterion is needed in order to give priority to one class in front the others. This hierarchical criterion is based in theoretical assumptions
Coordinate reference system:: EPSG:3035
Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
Processors:: The European Topic Centre on Land Use and Spatial Information

Additional information

A land cover type is dominant in a point when its density value in that point is bigger than a threshold value. When co-dominances exist a supplementary criterion is needed in order to give priority to one class in front the others. The criterion used emphasizes the urban areas. For further information refer to the Methodology document.

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Andorra Austria Belgium Bulgaria Croatia Czechia Denmark Estonia France Germany Hungary Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Monaco Netherlands Poland Portugal Romania San Marino Slovakia Slovenia Spain Switzerland

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