NRC on Land Cover
Profile 2018 - 2020
Rationale
The land cover NRCs, as a well-established part of the network, will mainly focus on the technical aspects of land cover/use monitoring and data management. For the period 2014-2020 it is envisaged that the Copernicus programme will be the main driver, more specifically the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS), comprising amongst other: improving data on urban, riparian and coastal zones, production of Corine land cover and verification of High Resolution Layers (HRL) on land cover characteristics.
Expertise
- Landscape geography and ecology
- Remote sensing and GIS
- Spatial data quality analysis
- Spatial data and information management related to land, water and biodiversity
- Corine Land Cover and LUCAS projects
- Copernicus Land Monitoring Service production, verification and enhancement activities
- Operational data delivery.
Policy processes to be supported
- LC/LU in relevant EU Community legislation (e.g., Habitats, WFD and EIA)
- Copernicus Regulation
- INSPIRE (Infrastructure for spatial data in Europe)
- GEO/GEOSS, including SDGs
- Preparing for future LULUCF monitoring and reporting
Expected input and contributions from the NRC in 2018 - 2020
- CLC and CLCC production e. update CLC 2018
- HRLs – verification – 2015 & next update HRL2018
- Urban Atlas (UA), Riparian Zones (RZ), Natura2000 (N2K), Coastal Zones (CZ): verification and enrichment (2012, 2018)
- HR-phenology, Snow & Ice (S&I): feedback on service
- Review of and comment EEA technical reports and main reports with regards to LC/LU use cases
- Methodological support to statistical validation concepts for CLMS products
- Participation requested in and/or provide feedback to Eionet Action Group on Land monitoring in Europe (EAGLE) activities, in particular with regards to the development of CLC+
Relevant organisations and networks
- DG ENV
- DG GROW
- DG REGIO
- DG AGRI
- DG Eurostat
- DG JRC
- ESA / Eumetsat
- Other Copernicus services entrusted entities (Mercator Océan, ECMWF…)
- GOFC-GOLD
- Group on Earth Observation GEO