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See all EU institutions and bodiesCORINE Land Cover is a pan-European land cover inventory with 44 classes. Initiated in 1985 (the 1990 reference year) the inventory is available for the 1990, 2000, 2006, 2012 and 2018 reference years including change layers 1990-2000, 2006-2012 and 2012-2018. CORINE Land Cover is part of the European Union’s Copernicus Land Monitoring Service.
Datasets
CORINE Land Cover 2018 (vector), Europe, 6-yearly - version 2020_20u1, May 2020GDBSpatialiteESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 13 Jun 2019
Temporal coverage: 2017-2018
CORINE Land Cover 2018 (raster 100 m), Europe, 6-yearly - version 2020_20u1, May 2020GeoTIFFESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 13 Jun 2019
Temporal coverage: 2017-2018
CORINE Land Cover Change 2012-2018 (vector), Europe, 6-yearly - version 2020_20u1, May 2020GDBSpatialiteESRI:RESTOGC:WMS
Published: 13 Jun 2019
Temporal coverage: 2017-2018
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The Corine Land Cover status layers are modified for the purpose of consistent statistical analysis in the land cover change accounting system at EEA. Corine Land Cover (CLC) data are produced from 1986 for the European (EEA member or cooperating) countries. Pan-European CLC and CLCC data are available as vector and raster products.
Corine Land Cover in Eastern Partnership Countries
This metadata describes the Corine Land Cover 2000 dataset, developed for the capital regions in five European Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine) under the ENI CLC (European Neighbourhood Initiative - Corine Land Cover) pilot project. These datasets were created following the methodology and rules of the European CLC project, namely computer assisted photointerpretation of satellite imagery, standard European level-3 nomenclature, 25 ha minimum mapping unit (MMU) for status layer, 5 ha MMU for change layer, minimum width of linear elements is 100 meters.
This pilot has been created in the context of the cooperation between the EEA and the six Eastern Partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Republic of Moldova and Ukraine), which was implemented through the EU-funded regional project “Implementation of the Shared Environmental Information System principles and practices in the Eastern Partnership countries” (the ENI SEIS II East Project).
Corine Land Cover 1990 (raster 100m) - series
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With the help of CLC data it is possible to provide support for protecting ecosystems, halting the loss of biological diversity, tracking the impacts of climate change, assessing developments in agriculture and implementing the EU Water Framework Directive.
CLC data is an important data set for the implementation of key priority areas of the Sixth Environment Action Programme of the European Community. CLC data can show, for instance, where fragmentation of the landscape by roads and other infrastructure is worsening and thus increasing the risk that ecosystems can no longer connect with each other, putting the survival of their flora and fauna in danger. In the agricultural field CLC data can highlight where major structural changes are continuing or intensifying, such as the conversion of pasture to arable land, expansion or reduction in the area of fallow land and land taken out of production ('set aside'), or the abandonment of farming altogether. CLC serve as input to the EC 'Inspire' (INfrastructure for SPatial InfoRmation in Europe - http://inspire.jrc.it) initiative. This initiative intends to trigger the creation of a European spatial information infrastructure that delivers to the users integrated spatial information services. CLC programme is also a contribution to the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES http://gmes.info) initiative, run by the European Commission and the European Space Agency, to provide environmental information from a combination of air- and space-based observation systems and in-situ monitoring.