CORINE Land Cover 2000 (CLC2000)

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This page provides a description and a link to a "CORINE Land Cover 2000 (CLC2000)" database that provides information needed when modeling exposure levels or performing exposure assessment.

Short Description

Corine Land Cover 2000 (CLC2000) is produced by the European Environment Agency (EEA) and its member countries in the European environment information and observation network (Eionet). Corine Land Cover 2000 (CLC2000) is an update for the reference year 2000 of the first Corine Land Cover database which was finalised in the early 1990s as part of the European Commission program to COoRdinate Information on the Environment (Corine). The inventory is based on computer assisted photo interpretation of satellite images divided into 44 categories, and the raw data have a spatial resolution of 25 hectares. The categories include artificial surfaces, agriculture, forest and natural areas, wetlands and water bodies. The CORINE data are provided both as vector data sets, in their original form, and as a generalised raster data set, at a notional 100 meter resolution. Data is available for EU25 countries. Download requires permission from EEA.

Long description

//Corine_land_use_data.htm

Link

http://dataservice.eea.europa.eu/dataservice/metadetails.asp?id=822

Key Words

Land cover, corine, ecosystem, built environment, infrastructure, urban development, water

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