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Corine land cover 2012 (revised) for the UK, Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey
This dataset is the 2012 revised Corine Land Cover (CLC) map, consisting of 44 classes in the hierarchical three level Corine nomenclature, produced during the CLC2018 production to improve the CLC2012 inventory.
CLC 2018, CLC change 2012-2018 and CLC 2012 revised are three of the datasets produced within the frame of the Copernicus programme on land monitoring. Corine Land Cover (CLC) provides consistent information on land cover and land cover changes across Europe; these two maps are the UK component of Europe.
This inventory was initiated in 1985 (reference year 1990) and established a time series of land cover information with updates in 2000, 2006 and 2012 being the last iteration. CLC products are based on photointerpretation of satellite images by national teams of participating countries – the EEA member and cooperating countries – following a standard methodology and nomenclature with the following base parameters: 44 classes in the hierarchical three level Corine nomenclature; minimum mapping unit (MMU) of status layers is 25 hectares; minimum width of linear elements is 100 metres; minimum mapping unit (MMU) for Land Cover Changes (LCC) for the change layers is 5 hectares. The resulting national land cover inventories are further integrated into a seamless land cover map of Europe. Land cover and land use (LCLU) information is important not only for land change research, but also more broadly for the monitoring of environmental change, policy support, the creation of environmental indicators and reporting. CLC datasets provide important datasets supporting the implementation of key priority areas of the Environment Action Programmes of the European Union 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, among others. More information about the Corine Land Cover (CLC) and Copernicus land monitoring data in general can be found at http://land.copernicus.eu/.
Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/9bb7caab-764d-407b-9a81-0d758722d900
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- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- utf8
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2021-09-08
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/9bb7caab-764d-407b-9a81-0d758722d900
- Other citation details
- Cole, B., De la Barreda, B., Hamer, A., Codd, T., Payne, M., Chan, L., Smith, G., Balzter, H. (2021). Corine land cover 2012 (revised) for the UK, Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/9bb7caab-764d-407b-9a81-0d758722d900
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- Land Cover
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- Geospatial data
- land cover
- land use
- Copernicus
- Limitations on Public Access
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- no limitations
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- Any communication and publication by the beneficiary shall acknowledge that the action was carried out “with funding by the European Union”.
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Cole, B., De la Barreda, B., Hamer, A., Codd, T., Payne, M., Chan, L., Smith, G., Balzter, H. (2021). Corine land cover 2012 (revised) for the UK, Isle of Man, Jersey and Guernsey. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/9bb7caab-764d-407b-9a81-0d758722d900
- Spatial representation type
- vector
- Distance
- 100000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
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- Begin date
- 2012-01-01
- End date
- 2012-12-31
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- Quality Scope
- dataset
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- dataset
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- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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CLC products are based in majority of EEA39 countries on the photointerpretation of satellite images by the national teams of the participating countries - the EEA member and cooperating countries. This data covers the UK. All features in original vector database are delineated and classified on satellite images according to CLC specifications i.e. with better than 100 m positional accuracy and 25 ha minimum mapping unit (5 ha MMU for change layer) into the standardized CLC nomenclature (44 CLC classes). The change layer is derived from satellite imagery by direct mapping of changes taken place between two consecutive inventories, based on image-to-image comparison.
Details of the QC are in the metadata. All areas were independently verified by a second interpreter. The quality of interpretation was checked by the European technical team.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 9bb7caab-764d-407b-9a81-0d758722d900 XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)
- Resource type
- dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2022-05-18T12:21:40
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
