Land Cover Data at EEA CORINE Land Cover

Land Cover Data at EEA CORINE Land Cover Soil Sealing Layer Urban Atlas Markus Erhard European Environment Agency (EEA) markus. erhard@eea. europa. eu

Why Land Cover Monitoring • Multi-functionality of land – link to other sectors urban and landscape planning, water, soil, biodiversity, climate change, air quality, natural hazards etc. • Monitoring, assessment and reporting (continuous observation of environmental changes over space and time) indicators, reporting obligations etc. • Decision support, policy effectiveness need for action

… and mapping Environmental change vs. technical progress Hand made maps CLC 1990 First GIS electronic mapping CLC 2000 2006 Web-based Informatio n systems CLC 2012 +

CORINE Land Cover (CLC) reference years: 1990 / 2006 / 2012 image resolution: 10 x 10 m – 30 x 30 m MMU (Minimum Mapping Unit) 25 ha (5 ha change detection) land cover classes / accounts http: //www. eea. europa. eu/publications/COR 0 -landcover http: //www. eea. europa. eu/data-and-maps/indicators/data/corineland-cover-2000 -2006

CLC 2006 Germany and Berlin (aggregated maps)

High Resolution Layer (HRL) soil sealing / imperviousness reference years 2006 / 2009 / 2012 image resolution 20 x 20 m MMU (Minimum Mapping Unit) 1 ha sealing and density (0 – 100 %) http: //www. eea. europa. eu/data-and-maps/data/eea-fast-track-service-precursor-onland-monitoring-degree-of-soil-sealing-100 m-1

Continental Component CLC 2012 + 5 High Resolution Layers (HRLs) 20 x 20 m resolution for validated 100 x 100 m (1 ha) grid cells 1. artificial surfaces: imperviousness layer (0100%) (former soil sealing) 2. forest areas: foliage type (coniferous, deciduous, mixed) and crown coverage (0100%) 3. agricultural areas: mapping of permanent grassland 4. wetlands: mapping of wetness 5. water surfaces: small water bodies complementary to WFD and reference data

Example from Germany (Berlin) Berlin 2009 2006 Courtesy: Geoland-2

Statistics • Changes in imperviousness in Europe: Sealed area Increase of sealed in % of area 2009 total country towards area sealed area 2006 in % per km² per country Courtesy: Geoland-2

Urban Atlas (DG Regio) reference years 2006 / 2012 image resolution (2006) 2. 5 x 2. 5 m MMU (Minimum Mapping Unit) 0. 25 ha major cities (> 100. 000 pop. ) currently ca. 120 cities (> 300 cities envisaged) http: //www. eea. europa. eu/data-and-maps/data/urban-atlas

Urban Atlas Berlin (Germany) http: //dataservice. eea. europa. eu/map/Urban. Atlas. Beta/

From Mapping to Accounting 2000 1990 Change Matrix (44 x 43=1932 possible changes) summarized into flows LCF 8 LCF 5 LCF 1 LCF 6 LCF 4 LCF 2 LCF 3 LCF 7 LCF 9 http: //www. eea. europa. eu/themes/landuse/interactive/land-ecosystem-accounting-leac

Integrating Linear Features Belgium - soils sealing, CLC, roads CLC class 122 Soil sealing + Tele. Atlas roads CLC class 1 + Tele. Atlas roads

Towards operational land cover monitoring (GIO Land 2011 -2013) Photo: ESA http: //www. gmes. info/

GIO Land Services 3 components: 1. Local : zooming on ‘hot spot’ (e. g. urban atlas, protected areas, coastal areas) 2. Continental: pan. European products (Corine 2012, 5 HRLs soil sealing, forest, agriculture, wetland, water) 3. Global: bio-physical parameters (Essential Climate Variables (ECVs), food security (Africa) etc. ) Local component – Urban Atlas EU component - CLC Global component – ECV*s

Thanks for your attention! http: //www. eea. europa. eu markus. erhard@eea. europa. eu