CORINE Land Cover Map of the UK

The CORINE Land Cover Map for 2000 (CLC2000) is produced jointly by the European Commission and the Member States and is an update of a similar map produced for 1990.

CLC2000 is designed to be used at a scale of 1:100,000 and has a minimum mappable unit of 25 ha. It records 44 land cover and land use classes which represent the major surface types across Europe.

The Centre for Ecology & Hydrology has been responsible for producing the UK contribution to these pan-European maps. Unlike many EC Member States, the UK produced its contribution by generalising the more detailed national product, the Land Cover Map 2000.

The map generalisation process used a cross tabulation of thematic classes, a semi-automated spatial generalisation procedure and visual satellite image comparison (Image2000) using computer-assisted image interpretation tools.     

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