Land Cover Accounts (LEAC) Methodology tests

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Prod-ID: DAT-74-en

Created 18 Feb 2004 Published 18 Feb 2004 Last modified 28 Jun 2016

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Topics: Resource efficiency and waste ,

These accounts deal with changes in land cover and land use and seek to trace the wider environmental, social and economic implications of these transformations.

European data

ZIP compressed shapes, grids and database

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Methodology

LEAC final report 2003

LEAC final report 2003 (PDF document)
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Metadata

Temporal coverage:: 2000
Geographic coverage:: Andorra , Austria , Belgium , Bosnia and Herzegovina , Bulgaria , Czechia , Denmark , Estonia , Finland , France , Germany , Greece , Hungary , Ireland , Italy , Latvia , Liechtenstein , Lithuania , Luxembourg , Monaco , Netherlands , Poland , Portugal , Romania , San Marino , Slovakia , Slovenia , Spain , Switzerland , United Kingdom
Tags:: EEA owned data sets , land cover , LEAC , coastal ecosystems , Corine Land Cover
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).
Coordinate reference system:: EPSG:3035
Data sources: e.g., Corine 12/2000, 100m
Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
Processors:: The European Topic Centre on Land Use and Spatial Information

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Geographical coverage note: Albania, Morocco and Tunisia are partly covered

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Land take Increase in the amount of agriculture, forest and other semi-natural and natural land taken by urban and other artificial land development. It includes areas sealed by construction and urban infrastructure as well as urban green areas and sport and leisure facilities. The main drivers of land take are grouped in processes resulting in the extension of: housing, services and recreation, industrial and commercial sites, transport networks & infrastructures mines, quarries and waste dumpsites.

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