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Elevation Breakdown

Figure Created 01 Jan 2002 Published 01 Jan 2002 Last modified 28 Jun 2016

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Topics: Biodiversity — Ecosystems

The Elevation breakdown is used to allocate land cover changes into homogeneous areas as function of height, slope and distance to the sea

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Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
Processors:: The European Topic Centre on Land Use and Spatial Information
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It defines five relief typologies: 1) low coasts, 2) high coasts, 3) inlands, 4) uplands and 4) mountains. The enumeration corresponds to values in the grid.