State-of-play Report LC Specifications Version 2.0

Team Staff: Stephan Arnold (DE), Geir-Harald Strand [Facilitator] (NO), Dimitri Sarafinof [Editor] (FR), Wim Devos (JRC), Gergely Maucha (HU).Vanda Nunes de Lima (JRC), Åsa Sehlstedt (SE), Nuria Valcarcel Sanz (ES), Elzbieta Bielecka (PL), Marjo Kasanko (ESTAT), Steffen Kunz (DE)

INSPIRE TWG Land Cover

State-of-play Report LC Specifications Version 2.0

Communication: 3 Physical Meetings

- Kick-off Meeting, Frankfurt, Germany- Editing Meeting, Oslo, Norway- Editing Meeting, Madrid, Spain

15 Telefon Conferences

INSPIRE TWG Land Cover

INSPIRE TWG Land Cover

10.04.23 3INSPIRE Conference - Edinburgh

William Shakespeare

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org

What has William in common with the

TWG LC??

Land cover is an abstraction of the physical and biophysical cover on the earth’s surface. [Directive 2007/2/EC]

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INSPIRE TWG Land Cover

Land Cover Survey initiatives

”T h e e a r t h s’ b i o - p h y s i c a l s u r f a c e”

Land Cover Landscape Elements

Other mapping initiatives

10.04.23 5INSPIRE Conference - Edinburgh

CORINE Land Cover

LUCAS

DLM-DE, SIOSE, LCM

INSPIRE TWG Land Cover

Land Cover Survey Initiative

”T h e e a r t h s’ b i o - p h y s i c a l s u r f a c e”

Land Cover

Land Cover Data

UsersDocumentation

10.04.23 6INSPIRE Conference - Edinburgh

INSPIRE TWG Land Cover

Land Cover Survey Initiative

Land Cover Data

Land Cover Coverage

Land Cover Object

Situation(Time of observation)

Land Cover Class Land Cover Parameter

10.04.23 7INSPIRE Conference - Edinburgh

CLC2000

CLCchange2006-2012

Polygon

Satellite image

Point

INSPIRE TWG Land Cover

Raster

Land Cover Coverage

Land Cover Object

Situation(Time of observation)

Land Cover Class

”T h e e a r t h s’ b i o - p h y s i c a l s u r f a c e”

Land Cover

Land Cover Survey Initiative

Metadata

Nomenclature

Instructions

Documentation

Definitions

Land Cover Parameters

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CLC

LUCAS

LCML

GMES

INSPIRE TWG Land Cover

Land Cover Data

No „INSPIRE“ LC classification

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INSPIRE TWG Land Cover

- Data Specifications contain no unique „INSPIRE Land Cover Classification System“

- Flexible regarding various Land Cover nomenclatures or classification systems (existing or up-coming)

- Open for Polygons / Points / Raster Data Sets

10.04.23 10INSPIRE Conference - Edinburgh

William Shakespeare

Source: http://de.wikipedia.org

“Twelfth Night or

What You Will”

INSPIRE TWG Land Cover