Title

Land use based on Corine Land Cover

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Abstract

This map displays the Alpine land cover types and their distribution, and is based on an elaboration of the data from the CORINE Land Cover database.
The indicator shows the “Artificial surfaces”, the ”Agricultural areas” and the “Water bodies” first level classes of the CORINE nomenclature, whereas CORINE’s class “Forests and semi-natural areas” was modified: its two subclasses “Forests” and “Scrub and/or herbaceous vegetation associations” have been kept together, whereas the third subclass “Open spaces with little or no vegetation” is displayed as an independent category (“http://land.copernicus.eu/eagle/files/eagle-related-projects/pt_clc-conversion-to-fao-lccs3_dec2010”).

This reclassification allows to highlight the high share of open spaces with little or no vegetation within the Alpine region, and to distinguish them from the areas covered with forests or scrub/vegetation.
The map shows that the Alpine region is predominantly covered with forests and scrub/vegetation areas and that open spaces also take up a significant share of its territory. On the other hand, agricultural areas and artificial surfaces are not as extended and are primarily located in the outer parts of the Alpine arc, along the Alpine Convention perimeter or in valley bottoms.

Publication Date

Aug. 1, 2018, 12:43 p.m.

Type

Raster Data

Keywords

land_cover , RSA6

Category

Soil and Land

Soil and Land topic

Regions

Alps

Responsible

AlpineConvention

Group

PSAC - Permanent Secretariat Alpine Convention

More info

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Maintenance Frequency

There Are No Plans To Update The Data

Restrictions

Some limitations apply to the access or use of the data

Language

English

Supplemental Information

Data source: CORINE 2006, European Environment Agency (EEA), 2012. Grid resolution 250 m

The layer can be accessed through WMS services at http://www.atlas.alpconv.org/geoserver/ows?service=wms&version=1.3.0&request=GetCapabilities

Spatial Representation Type

grid data is used to represent geographic data

Layer WMS GetCapabilities document