Abstract
Monitoring of land cover (LC) provides important information of actual land use (LU) and landscape dynamics. LC research results depend on the size of the area, purpose and applied methodology. CORINE Land Cover (CLC) data is one of the most important sources of LU data from a European perspective. Our research compares official CLC data (third hierarchical level of nomenclature at a scale of 1:100,000) and national statistics (NS) of LU in Slovakia between 2000 and 2018 at national, county, and local levels. The most significant differences occurred in arable land and permanent grassland, which is also related to the recording method and the development of agricultural land management. Due to the abandonment of agricultural areas, a real recorded increase in forest cover due to forest succession was not introduced in the official records of Land register. New modification of CLC methodology for identifying LC classes at a scale of 1:10,000 and fifth hierarchical level of CLC is firstly applied for local case studies representing lowland, basin, and mountain landscape. The size of the least identified and simultaneously recorded area was established at 0.1 ha the minimum width of a polygon was established at 10 m, the minimum recorded width of linear elements such as communications was established at 2 m. The use of the fifth CLC level in the case studies areas generated average boundary density 17.2 km/km2, comparing to the 2.6 km/km2 of the third level. Therefore, when measuring the density of spatial information by the polygon boundary lengths, the fifth level carries 6.6 times more information than the third level. Detailed investigation of LU affords better verification of national statistics data at a local level. This study also contributes to a more detailed recording of the current state of the Central European landscape and its changes.
Highlights
Land use (LU) data and land cover (LC) monitoring are applicable at all government levels, from local government to European Union policy
CLC3 data show the real state of agricultural land recorded by remote sensing, while the national statistics (NS) states the legal nature of the land [33]
The most significant differences occurred in arable land and permanent grassland, which is related to the recording method and agricultural land management development
Summary
Land use (LU) data and land cover (LC) monitoring are applicable at all government levels, from local government to European Union policy. Since 1897, the Land register in Hungary has been recording parcels according to metric area and cadastral maps [1]. Land register focused on data on parcel types, which were mainly related to agricultural production (six types). The beginnings of LU research were related to the inventorying of categories (parcel type), which were mainly related to ensuring food sovereignty [2]. This trend is confirmed by research on the Commission on Inventory of World Land Use, which began its activities at the 26th IGU Congress in Lisbon, or later LU research in Central and Eastern Europe, focusing on agricultural LU [3]
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