ABSTRACT

Thanks to these activities, a complete picture of LC and its changes in Europe can be provided in a consistent way. With more countries joining the activity, the CLC coverage has evolved from 1990 onward and has gradually expanded (see coverage for databases for different reference years in Table  19.2). Nevertheless, for some countries the most recent data (CLC2006 data) were still

19.1 Introduction ..........................................................................................................................285 19.2 CORINE Land Cover Nomenclature ....................................................................................286 19.3 Methodology .........................................................................................................................288