Land Cover — Land Use Mapping within the European Corine Programme

G Büttner,M Bossard,C Steenmans,J Feranec,J Kolár

doi:10.1007/978-94-011-4357-8_9

Land Cover — Land Use Mapping within the European Corine Programme

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4357-8_9

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Publication Date: Jan 1, 2000

Citations: 17

Affiliation: Institut national de l’information géographique et forestière, European Environment Agency

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The aim of the CORINE Land Cover Mapping is to provide information on the state and changing biophysical coverage of the Earth’s surface. The European Union’s CORINE (Coordination of Information on the Environment) Land Cover Project was initiated in the EU countries in the 80’s to provide quantitative, consistent and comparable information on land cover, at a scale of 1:100 000. After the political changes in Central and Eastern Europe, the project has been extended to the East within the frame of the Phare Programme. Today the CORINE Land Cover database covers 31 countries.

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