Land Cover Data at EEA CORINE Land Cover Soil Sealing Layer Urban Atlas Markus Erhard European Environment Agency (EEA) markus.erhard@eea.europa.eu 1. Introduction:     EEA mission & tasks     EEA network (EIONET) & priorities 2. Monitoring, assessment and reporting related to Water     EIONET Water Monitoring Network     Assessments (LARA & water accounts)     Data platform (WISE) & data needs 3. Outlook (link to GEOLAND activities)     Water quantity (irrigation)     Quantification of pressures on water quality     Structural changes of water bodies (hydropower, shipping, fragmentation)     Anthropogenic and natural forcing (climate change, land-use changes (link to other priorities) etc) Points are presented and discussed to show open issues which might be of interest for the Geoland consortium (data needs,harmonization, gaps, visions)

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

Environmental change vs. technical progress … and mapping Environmental change vs. technical progress Hand made maps First GIS GIS electronic mapping Web-based Information systems First few years, no technical infrastructure in place Requests and deliveries were sent by post on paper and copied for distribtuion These working methods were replaced by e-mail. To begin with there were many problems with file formats Data deliveries were put in data bases, mostly maintained by the ETCs For the past few years, data have been delivered from most countries directly into the central data repository of Reportnet where they can be retrieved by many users CLC 1990 CLC CLC 2000 2006 CLC 2012 +

CORINE Land Cover (CLC) reference years: 1990 / 2000 / 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/COR0-landcover http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/indicators/data/corine-land-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) 1ha  sealing and density (0 – 100 %) http://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eea-fast-track-service-precursor-on-land-monitoring-degree-of-soil-sealing-100m-1

Continental Component CLC 2012 + 5 High Resolution Layers (HRLs)  20 x 20 m resolution for validated 100 x 100m (1 ha) grid cells artificial surfaces: imperviousness layer (0-100%) (former soil sealing) forest areas: foliage type (coniferous, deciduous, mixed) and crown coverage (0-100%) agricultural areas: mapping of permanent grassland wetlands: mapping of wetness water surfaces: small water bodies complementary to WFD and reference data

Example from Germany (Berlin) Courtesy: Geoland-2

Statistics Changes in imperviousness in Europe: Increase of sealed area 2009 towards sealed area 2006 in km² per country Sealed area in % of total country area Increase of sealed area 2009 towards sealed area 2006 in % per country sealed area change 2009 towards sealed area 2006 in % per country  sealed area 2006 = 100 %  diese prozente sind zusätzlich dazugekommen sealed area change 2009 in km per country  zusätzliche Fläche in 2009 in km² sealed area 2009 in % of total country area  verbaute fläche der Landesfläche gesamt sealed area = alles ab 1% versiegelung 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/UrbanAtlasBeta/

From Mapping to Accounting 2000 LCF3 LCF1 LCF2 LCF5 LCF4 LCF7 LCF6 LCF8 Change Matrix (44x43=1932 possible changes) summarized into flows LCF9 1990 http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/landuse/interactive/land-and-ecosystem-accounting-leac

Integrating Linear Features Belgium - soils sealing, CLC, roads CLC class 122 Soil sealing Soil sealing + TeleAtlas roads CLC class 1 + TeleAtlas roads

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

Local component – Urban Atlas GIO Land Services 3 components: Local : zooming on ‘hot spot’ (e.g. urban atlas, protected areas, coastal areas) Continental: pan-European products (Corine 2012, 5 HRLs soil sealing, forest, agriculture, wetland, water) 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