1. Land Use/Cover Area Frame Statistical Survey
LUCAS
Phase 1
Preliminary results
2003
Forest and Other Wooded Land
Angelo MARIANO
Eurostat F-2

2. Objectives of the LUCAS survey
To obtain harmonised statistical data at EU15 level on:
Land Use and Land Cover
Environmental features
To monitor and analyse changes
2001, 2003, 2005 (EU25), ...

3. Where are the observations made?
points systematically sampled

4. How the points are found on the ground...
Reaching the points
Reaching the points
Observing the features in the field
Observing the features in the field *
3 m
3 m
40 m
40 m
* About 10% of points are also photo-interpreted (mountain, isolated points)

5. What is observed?
(1) Land cover
57 classes

6. What is observed?
(2) Land use
14 classes

7. (3) Environmental features
What is observed?
(3) Environmental features
Tracks of natural hazards (Avalanches, Land slides, Gales, Burnt and Flooded areas)
linear: rills, gullies
Tracks of erosion
accumulation
Linear features (e.g. hedges) present in landscape

8. What is observed? (4) Landscape Archive of 20 000 photos West East
North
South

9. LUCAS sampling plan Visited points in 2003 EU15 9796 PSU 96645 SSU
Hungary
292 PSU
2883 SSUs

10. Distance of observation

11. Land Cover
&
Land Use
Preliminary results

12. Land Cover

13. Land Use

14. Land Cover matrix

15. Focusing on Forest and Other Wooded Land Land Cover

16. Changes of Land Cover among Forest categories and other main classes (2001/2003)

17. Observed Land Cover changes in
Forest categories
(2001/2003)

18. Comparison between LUCAS 2001, LUCAS 2003 and TBFRA main aggregates

19. Detailed Land Cover: Forest and Other Wooded Land categories (2003-2001)

20. TBFRA and LUCAS thresholds

21. Map of Land Cover change (2001/2003) between Forest and Permanent Grassland

22. Map of Land Cover change (2001/2003) between Forest and Shrubland