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Data
Dominant land cover types 1990 (5 & 10 km). Zipped tiff format, raster
(ZIP archive)
Methodology document for dominant land cover types, pdf format
(PDF document)
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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
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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.
For references, please go to https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/dominant-land-cover-types-1990-1 or scan the QR code.
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