across Europe.
The basic characteristics of the information gathered by the CORINE Land-Cover inventory are :
The CORINE Land-Cover database can generate simple cartographic representations or statistical overviews and also provides one of the inputs for the production of more complex information on other environmental themes (eg, soil erosion, or emissions into the air by vegetation). The inventory has recently been applied to large transfrontier portions of the European Union, and already offers the potential for a wide array of uses. The applications are wide-ranging in both the variety of the themes (eg, management of protected areas, rational exploitation of natural resources, layout of road and railway networks, urban planning) and in the different levels of geographical area/decision making (ie, EU, national and regional).