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UID 146
Name Land Cover
Description Land Cover information to support the production as well as the calibration and validation of Copernicus products at scales of 1:5000 - 1:10000
Dissemination Offline
Quality Control Procedure Manual
Group Land cover / Land use
Status -
Uncertainty
N/A
N/A
N/A
Update Frequency
5 years
3 years
1 year
Timeliness
1 month
1 week
1 day
Scale
1:20000
1:10000
1:5000
Horizontal resolution
10 m
5 m
1 m
Vertical resolution
N/A
N/A
N/A
Essential variables

Land - Biosphere - Land cover
State Valid
Created on March 28, 2018, 10:16 a.m.
Last updated on Dec. 10, 2025, 12:08 p.m.

Products

Product UID Product Level of definition Relevant for Criticality Barriers Note Created on Last updated on
298 Natura2000 Change Layer Reasonable Product generation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Coverage, Data policy, Format, Timeliness, Update Frequency Reference for interpretation and land cover/land use (LC/LU) separation for production of the product Skeleton as well as for differentiation of the LC/LU classes Nov. 21, 2020, 10:20 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
34 Riparian Zones Green Linear Elements Reasonable Product generation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Coverage, Data policy, Update Frequency Large scale mapping of Green Linear Elements. June 11, 2018, 7:09 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
34 Riparian Zones Green Linear Elements Firm Calibration and validation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Costs, Coverage, Data policy, Metadata, Resolution, Update Frequency Nov. 21, 2020, 11:02 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
297 Riparian Zones Land Cover/Land Use Reasonable Calibration and validation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Costs, Coverage, Data policy, Update Frequency Availability Accuracy Coverage Update Frequency Costs Data policy Nov. 21, 2020, 11:03 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
296 Urban Atlas Building Height Firm Supporting exploitation Essential Resolution Nov. 9, 2018, 3:29 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
39 High Resolution Layer - Imperviousness Firm Supporting exploitation Essential Accuracy, Coverage, Resolution, Update Frequency Automated derivation of classification training samples from additional reference data Nov. 6, 2018, 12:33 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
295 Urban Atlas Street Tree Layer Firm Product generation Essential Format, Resolution, Update Frequency Nov. 9, 2018, 3:27 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
40 High Resolution Layer - Imperviousness change Firm Supporting exploitation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Update Frequency Automated derivation of classification training samples from additional reference data Nov. 6, 2018, 12:44 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
31 Urban Atlas Firm Product generation Essential Resolution sealing level information from the HRL IMD complements the results of the EO data interpretation in terms of sealing density Nov. 9, 2018, 2:47 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
323 High Resolution Layer - Tree Cover Presence Change Firm Supporting exploitation Useful N/A Reference data used for validation of the change product Nov. 16, 2018, 2:29 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
303 High Resolution Layer - Small Woody Features Firm Product generation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Coverage, Data policy, Resolution, Update Frequency important reference data sources concerning creation of training samples, calibration, validation, interpretation and classification Nov. 9, 2018, 4:22 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
33 Riparian Zones Delineation Reasonable Calibration and validation Desirable Availability For Riparian Zones Land Cover/Land Use (LC/LU) for the calculation of path distances in combination with EU-HYDRO Nov. 21, 2020, 11 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
402 Coastal Zones Change Layer Firm Product generation Essential Availability, Coverage, Update Frequency May 3, 2020, 10:18 a.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
411 High Resolution Layer - Imperviousness Change Classified Firm Supporting exploitation Essential Accuracy, Coverage, Resolution, Update Frequency May 1, 2020, 10:30 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
47 Coastal Zones Firm Product generation Essential Availability, Coverage, Update Frequency May 3, 2020, 10:16 a.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
413 High Resolution Layer - Share of Built-Up Firm Supporting exploitation Essential Accuracy, Coverage, Resolution, Update Frequency May 1, 2020, 10:29 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
412 High Resolution Layer - Impervious Built-Up Mask Firm Supporting exploitation Essential Accuracy, Coverage, Resolution, Update Frequency May 1, 2020, 10:31 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:03 p.m.
400 Corine Land Cover Plus Backbone - Land Cover Raster Product Firm Product generation Essential Accuracy, Resolution, Update Frequency Used for reference sampling and validation May 15, 2020, 9:32 a.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
35 Natura 2000 Reasonable Product generation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Coverage, Data policy, Format, Timeliness, Update Frequency Reference for interpretation and land cover/land use (LC/LU) separation for production of the product Skeleton as well as for differentiation of the LC/LU classes Nov. 21, 2020, 10:19 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
32 Urban Atlas Change Firm Supporting exploitation Essential Format sealing level information from the HRL IMD complements the results of the EO data interpretation in terms of sealing density Nov. 9, 2018, 3:24 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
320 High Resolution Layer - Dominant Leaf Type Change Firm Supporting exploitation Useful N/A Reference data used for validation of the change product Nov. 16, 2018, 2:29 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
414 High Resolution Layer - Additional Woody Features Firm Product generation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Coverage, Data policy, Resolution, Update Frequency Important reference data sources concerning creation of training samples, calibration, validation, interpretation and classification May 2, 2020, 11:14 a.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
401 Corine Land Cover Plus Backbone - Attributed and Classified Landscape Objects Firm Product generation Essential Accuracy, Resolution, Update Frequency Used for reference sampling, object attribution and validation May 15, 2020, 9:31 a.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
321 High Resolution Layer - Tree Cover Density Change Firm Supporting exploitation Useful N/A Reference data used for validation of the change product Nov. 16, 2018, 2:28 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
855 High Resolution Layer - Grassland Mowing Dates Firm Product generation Useful N/A Nov. 27, 2025, 10:47 a.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
297 Riparian Zones Land Cover/Land Use Firm Product generation Essential Accuracy, Availability, Costs, Coverage, Data policy, Update Frequency used as reference data for interpretation and differentiation of Land Cover /Land Use (LC/LU) classes; March 28, 2018, 1:31 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
841 High Resolution Layer - Crop types Firm Calibration and validation Essential Availability, Costs, Coverage, Data policy, Timeliness, Update Frequency Land cover reference data needed for calibration and validation May 23, 2024, 8:51 a.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
856 High Resolution Layer - Grassland Mowing Events Firm Calibration and validation Essential Availability, Costs, Coverage, Data policy, Timeliness, Update Frequency Nov. 27, 2025, 3:08 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
858 High Resolution Layer - Cropping Patterns Firm Calibration and validation Essential Availability, Costs, Coverage, Data policy, Update Frequency Nov. 27, 2025, 3:09 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:04 p.m.

Data

Data UID Data Level of compliance Note Information costs Handling costs Created on Last updated on
47 Riparian Zones delineation Partially Updates of the delineation of the area of interest imply additional efforts and costs. March 28, 2018, 1:37 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:04 p.m.
547 High Resolution Layer - Tree Cover Density Partially The spatial resolution of the High Resolution Layer (HRL) does not fully match the mapping scale of a land cover / land use classification at 1:10,000. Issues can result in particular for small landscape elements. Nov. 30, 2020, 12:56 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
393 Urban Atlas Street Tree Layer (UA-STL) Partially Additional reference data for delineating building height and for calibration. Resolution and accuracy of the dataset is insufficient for the required accuracy of the product. Nov. 9, 2018, 4:39 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
394 High Resolution Layer - Dominant Leaf Type Fully Used as additional source of reference information for generating the change product. Nov. 16, 2018, 2:44 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
42 EU-DEM Partially Used for differentiation of woody vegetation and grassland; timeliness and resolution as well as accuracy not sufficient for the accuracy needs of the product. Nov. 9, 2018, 4:16 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
392 Riparian Zones Green Linear Elements Partially Used for delineation and creating the training dataset, but limited to European areas. Geometric consistency between reference and image data is unsufficient, which is a critical issue particularly for linear elements. Nov. 9, 2018, 4:30 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
54 Urban Atlas Land Cover / Land Use 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.
32 Wikimapia Partially Auxiliary datasource used by interpreters to contrast with availbable very high resolution (VHR) image sources. Not fully compliant due to update frequency, coverage and resolution issues. April 20, 2018, 9:59 a.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
568 European Settlement Map Partially Represents the percentage of built-up area coverage per spatial unit. Reference year 2012. Nov. 21, 2020, 11:04 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
262 Riparian Zones Land Cover / Land Use Fully Additional Information on Land Cover/Land Use (LC/LU) for product generation. Full compliance for product generation. Used for calibration of the path distance for the Riparian Zones modeling, limited to Riparian Features only. Partial compliance for calibration/validation. Oct. 19, 2018, 12:19 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
265 High Resolution Layer - Grassland Fully Automated derivation of classification training samples from additional reference data. Nov. 6, 2018, 12:47 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
123 High Resolution Layers - Water & Wetness Fully Automated derivation of classification training samples from additional reference data. Nov. 6, 2018, 12:49 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
88 High Resolution Layer - Imperviousness Fully Used as basis for the detection of change in urban areas. May 15, 2019, 10:40 a.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
548 Natura 2000 Land Cover / Land Use Partially only covers selected Natura 2000 sites across Europe. May 3, 2020, 10:36 a.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
575 High Resolution Layer - Forest Type Fully Information on forest land cover for complementing land cover (for resolution of 20m). May 20, 2020, 9:59 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
9 Land Use and Coverage Area frame Survey (LUCAS) Partially The Land Use/Cover Area Statistical Frame Survey (LUCAS) is used as additional source for a more accurate differentiation between cropland and grassland; unsufficient coverage and timeliness is an issue. The LUCAS sampling grid requires densification to be used for calibration and validation at scales of 1:5000 - 1:10000. Nov. 9, 2018, 4:16 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
92 Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS) Partially Would be appreciated for various products and as reference data source at several processing steps, e.g. as as reference data for the production of the skeleton (intermediate product) and for differentiation of the various Land Cover/Land Use (LC/LU) classes. However: limited availability and accessibility, highly variable quality across EU member states, unsufficient coverage and differing accuracy limit it to only partial compliance. Efforts have to be made for recoding and re-editing LC/LU classes. April 16, 2018, 1:44 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
45 OpenStreetMap Partially Land Cover/Land Use (LC/LU) information, roads and railways useful to derive the skeleton of mapping units for LC/LU classification at scales around 1:10000; For validation, particularly valuable for the Riparian Zones products and the Urban Atlas. Accuracy, update frequency, as well as coverage could be an issue. March 28, 2018, 2:03 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
603 INSPIRE Annex II: Land cover Partially The level of compliance of the Dataset must be verify case by case. Coverage could be not complete. Number of thematic classes could be lower than specified in the requirement section. The timeliness could be higher than required. Dec. 18, 2020, 8:54 a.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
766 Corine Land Cover Plus Backbone - Land Cover Raster Product Fully Consists of different layers covering various topics (Forest, Grassland, Water, Imperviousness,..) April 16, 2024, 9:55 a.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.
364 High Resolution Layer - Permanent Water Bodies (PWB) and Wetlands (WET) 2012 Partially Used to delineate mapping units outside water bodies and wet areas. Resolution of 20 m does not fully match the mapping scale of a Land Cover/Land Use (LC/LU) classification of a scale of 1:10000 m. Oct. 19, 2018, 12:49 p.m. Dec. 4, 2025, 5:05 p.m.