Crop Mask Title:
CORINE (Coordination of information of the Environment) Land Cover (CLC) Europe, 2018
Coverage:
Europe and it covers 39 countries.
Spatial resolution:
A raster image available with 100 meters spatial resolution.
Satellite:
Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 for gap filling
Year:
2018
Version:
CLC 2018, Version 20, May 2019
Organization:
Copernicus land products are stored in the metadata catalogue of the European Environment Agency.
Resource Contact:
European Environment Agency
Kongens Nytorv 6 Copenhagen 1050 Denmark
http://www.eea.europa.eu
https://community.eea.europa.eu/
Resource Abstract:
CLC2018 is one of the datasets produced within the frame the Corine Land Cover programme referring to land cover / land use status of year 2018. The Corine Land Cover (CLC) is an European programme, coordinated by the European Environment Agency (EEA), providing consistent information on land cover and land cover changes across Europe. CLC products are based on the photointerpretation of satellite images by the national teams of the participating countries - the EEA member or cooperating countries. The resulting national land cover inventories are further integrated into a seamless land cover map of Europe. The resulting European database is based on standard methodology and nomenclature with following base parameters: - 44 classes in the hierarchical 3-level Corine nomenclature - minimum mapping unit (MMU) for status layers is 25 hectares - minimum width of linear elements is 100 metres - minimum mapping unit (MMU) for Land Cover Changes (LCC) for change layers is 5 hectares CLC programme provides important data sets supporting the implementation of key priority areas of the Environment Action Programmes of the European Community as 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 etc.. CLC programme is also a part of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (https://land.copernicus.eu/) initiative, run by the European Commission and the European Environment Agency, which will provide environmental information from a combination of air- and space-based observation systems and in-situ monitoring. More about the Corine Land Cover (CLC) programme and datasets can be found at https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european.
The present 100m raster dataset is the 2018 CLC status layer modified for the purpose of consistent statistical analysis in the land cover change accounting system at European Environment Agency (EEA).
The Eionet network National Reference Centres Land Cover (NRC/LC) is producing the national CLC databases, which are coordinated and integrated by EEA. CLC is produced by the majority of countries by visual interpretation of high resolution satellite imagery. In a few countries semi-automatic solutions are applied, using national in-situ data, satellite image processing, GIS integration and generalisation. The 2012 version of CLC was the first one embedding the CLC time series in the Copernicus programme, thus ensuring sustainable funding for the future. The 2018 version also funded by Copernicus was produced in less than 1 year.
Resource Classification Categories:
The agriculture classes are listed below:
211, Non-irrigated arable land
212, Permanently irrigated land
213, Rice fields
221, Vineyards
222, Fruit trees and berry plantations
223, Olive groves
231, Pastures
241, Annual crops associated with permanent crops
242, Complex cultivation patterns
243, Land principally occupied by agriculture with significant areas of natural vegetation
Reprocessing for MODIS-GLAM (250-meter) applications:
Reprocessing and resampling steps follow:
Resource URL:
CORINE Land Cover (CLC) inventory
https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/corine-land-cover
https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/5a5f43ca-1447-4ed0-b0a6-4bd2e17e4f4d
Download URL:
Copernicus
https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/clc-2006-raster
https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/copernicus-land-monitoring-service-corine
https://land.copernicus.eu/user-corner/how-to-access-our-data
Resource Citations:
CORINE Land Cover, Copernicus
https://land.copernicus.eu/pan-european/corine-land-cover
Corine Land Cover 2018 (raster 100m) version 20 accounting layer, Jun. 2019.
https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/5a5f43ca-1447-4ed0-b0a6-4bd2e17e4f4d
Heymann, et al. 1994, CORINE Land Cover Technical Guide, Part 1, European Commission.
https://www.eea.europa.eu/publications/COR0-landcover/COR0-landcover/viewfile#pdfjs.action=download
de Jager, A. L. 2012. Preparing CORINE Land Cover data for use: Optimalization of Land cover data using a database and a topological GIS platform, JRC Scientific and Technical Reports,
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/38627375.pdf