Dominant land cover types 2000

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Created 01 Apr 2005 Published 01 Apr 2005 Last modified 28 Jun 2016
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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 2000 (5, 10, 20 & 25 Km). Zipped tiff format, raster

Methodology

Methodology document for dominant land cover types, pdf format

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Last upload:
16 Nov 2007
Scale of the data set:
1:1000000
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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

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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