Land cover map of the EU

The text on this page is taken from an equivalent page of the IEHIAS-project.

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). It is based on the results of IMAGE2000, a satellite imaging programme undertaken jointly by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission and the EEA.

CLC2000 is an update for the reference year 2000 of the first CORINE Land Cover database (CLC90). It is based on photo-interpretation of satellite images by the national teams of the participating countries. National land cover inventories are further integrated into a seamless land cover map of Europe. As per CLC90, the resulting CLC2000 European database is based on standard methodology and nomenclature, providing a three-level hierarchy (with optional lower levels for use at national scale). The third level nomenclature contains 47 land cover classes as indicated in the table below.

The main potential uses of the CLC90 and CLC2000 data for integrated risk assessment are likely to be as inputs to models of environmental pollution and hazards. One example is the work done by the EEA and DG JRC regarding mapping the impact of environmental disasters (such as the Prestige accident and consequent oil spill out of the coast of Galicia in Spain) on human health and protection of life quality. This is part of the database in its current form and can provide some guidance on harmonized use of spatial data for mapping environment and health interactions over time. Another is the use of CLC90 to model emissions, population density and atmospheric pollution at the 1km scale across the EU-15, as part of the APMoSPHERE project. While the most recent CORINE database is CLC2000 and it should usually be the land cover dataset of choice for most assessments, CLC90 may be useful for retrospective assessments related to the late 1980s to early 1990s.

Map classes recognised in the CLC2000 land cover map

Code	Class name
1	Continuous urban fabric
2	Discontinuous urban fabric
3	Industrian and commercial units
4	Road and rail networks and associated land
5	Port areas
6	Airports
7	Mineral exctraction sites
8	Dump sites
9	Construction sites
10	Green urban areas
11	Sport and leisure facilities
12	Non-irrigated arable land
13	Permanently irrigated land
14	Rice fields
15	Vine yards
16	Fruit trees and berry plantations
17	Olive groves
18	Pastures
19	Annual crops associated with permanent crops
20	Compex cultivation patterns
21	Land principally occupies by agriculture, with significant areas of vegetation
22	Agro-foresty areas
23	Broad-leaved forest
24	Corniferous forest
25	Mixed forest
26	Natural grasslands
27	Moor and heathland
28	Sclerophyllous vegetation
29	Transitional woodland-shrub
30	Beaches, dunes, sand
31	Bare rock
32	Sparsely vegetated areas
33	Burned areas
34	Glaciers and perpetual snow
35	Inland marhses
36	Peat bogs
37	Salt marshes
38	Salines
39	Iterdital flats
40	Water courses
41	Water bodies
42	Costal lagoons
43	Estuaries
44	Sea and ocean
48	NODATA
49	UNCLASSIFIED LAND SURFACES
50	UNCLASSIFIED WATEER BODIES

See also

• Corine Land Cover 2000 raster data
• Corine Land Cover 2000 seamless vector data