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The aim of the CORINE Land Cover Mapping is to provide information on the state and changing biophysical coverage of the Earth’s surface. The European Union’s CORINE (Coordination of Information on the Environment) Land Cover Project was initiated in the EU countries in the 80’s to provide quantitative, consistent and comparable information on land cover, at a scale of 1:100 000. After the political changes in Central and Eastern Europe, the project has been extended to the East within the frame of the Phare Programme. Today the CORINE Land Cover database covers 31 countries.
CORINE Land Cover is mapped by interpretation of satellite images, and the results are stored as databases in Geographic Information Systems. These databases represent a basic tool for studies on the environment, impact assessment and regional planning on national as well as on European level.
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Büttner, G., Steenmans, C., Bossard, M., Feranec, J., Kolár, J. (2000). Land Cover — Land Use Mapping within the European Corine Programme. In: Buchroithner, M.F. (eds) Remote Sensing for Environmental Data in Albania: A Strategy for Integrated Management. NATO Science Series, vol 72. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4357-8_9
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