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Global land cover - 250m

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Created 20 Oct 2008 Published 20 Oct 2008 Last modified 20 Mar 2023

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Global land cover 2000 dataset is a main input dataset to define the boundaries between ecosystems

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Zipped tif files, 250m, raster

Zipped tif files, 250m, raster (ZIP archive)
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Geographic accuracy:: Global Land Cover is based on data with 1 km resolution.
Scale of the data set:: 1:100000
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:: Original Glob Cover 2000 (http://www-gvm.jrc.it/glc2000/) resampled to standard european 250 m raster. European window selected.
Coordinate reference system:: EPSG:3035
Data sources: Global land cover 2000 Project (GLC 2000)
Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
Processors:: The European Topic Centre on Land Use and Spatial Information

Additional information

The project was carried out to provide accurate baseline landcover information to the International Conventions on Climate Change, the Convention to Combat Desertification, the Ramsar Convention and the Kyoto Protocol. Furthermore, the Global land cover 2000 land cover database has been chosen as a core dataset for the Millennium Ecosystems Assessment. This means in particular that the Global land cover 2000 dataset is a main input dataset to define the boundaries between ecosystems such as forest, grassland, and cultivated systems.

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Geographic coverage

Albania Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czechia Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands North Macedonia Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom

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