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UID 54
Name Urban Atlas Land Cover / Land Use
Description The Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) Local Component Urban Atlas provides reliable, inter-comparable, high-resolution land use maps for Functional Urban Area (FUA) defined for currently three reference years, i.e. 2006, 2012 and 2018. The geospatial data can be downloaded together with a map for each urban area covered and a report with the metadata for the respective area. Additional information (product description, mapping guidance and class description) can be found at https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/urban-atlas/#tab-methodology.
Update Frequency Periodic Update
Area Local
Temporal -
Timeliness 1 hour
Data Policy Full and Open
Data type Geospatial data
Copernicus service product
Data format Vector dataset
Quality Control Procedure Manual
Dissemination View and Download Service
Inspire themes

Annex II: Land cover

Annex III: Land use
Geographical Coverage

Multiple Countries /Not a specific country
Status Operational
State Ready
Created on March 28, 2018, 1:47 p.m.
Last modified on April 11, 2024, 8:36 a.m.

Data Providers

Data provider UID Data provider Role Is network Created on Last modified on
5 European Environment Agency Distributor March 28, 2018, 4:08 p.m. April 11, 2024, 8:36 a.m.

Requirements

Requirement UID Requirement Level of compliace Note Information costs Handling costs Created on Last modified on
181 Land Cover - Grassland Partially Useful for training sample selection and plausibility checks. April 16, 2018, 10:24 a.m. April 16, 2024, 9:56 a.m.
114 Settlements - Built-Up Areas Partially Reason for partial fulfillment of the requirement is the dataset coverage that is limited to large european urban areas. May 21, 2018, 12:27 p.m. Nov. 28, 2025, 1:06 p.m.
112 Land cover Partially Reason for partial fulfillment of the requirement is the dataset coverage that is limited to large european urban areas. Oct. 5, 2018, 3 p.m. Nov. 28, 2025, 3:39 p.m.
146 Land Cover Partially The core areas of the Urban Atlas are also used for the Riparian Zones Land Cover/Land Use (LC/LU). This requires recoding since the nomenclature among the two products differs. Additional effort is required to guarantee topological consitencies among the covered core areas and LC/LU within Riparian zones outside the Urban Atlas core areas. Information on urban land use and on degree of imperviousness within dense urban Areas used for the production of the skeleton (intermediate product). Focusses on urban LC/LU only, therefore only partially compliant with the requirement. March 28, 2018, 1:55 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
436 Land Cover Partially Partial coverage of EEA39. May 13, 2020, 11:41 p.m. July 26, 2022, 5:27 p.m.
487 Land Use Partially Thematic classes are a mixture of land cover and land use. Coverage may not be complete. June 15, 2021, 11:28 a.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
22 Settlements - Building Block Partially Reason for partial fulfillment of the requirement is the dataset coverage that is limited to large european urban areas. May 21, 2018, 12:27 p.m. May 29, 2025, 10:42 a.m.