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Land Use and Coverage Area frame Survey

Acronym: LUCAS

Description

Accurately characterizing land surface changes with Earth Observation requires geo-localized ground truth. In the European Union (EU), a tri-annual

surveyed sample of land cover and land use has been collected since 2006 under the Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey (LUCAS). A total of 1.351.293 observations at 651.780 unique locations for 117 variables along with 5.4 million photos were collected during five LUCAS surveys. This collection contains official release of the LUCAS dataset.

Contact

Email
Marijn.VAN-DER-VELDE (at) ec.europa.eu

Datasets (4)

DATASET | Last updated:
LUCAS Copernicus 2022

The Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey (LUCAS) of the European Union (EU) presents a rich resource for detailed understanding of land cover and use, making it invaluable for Earth Ob...

DATASET | Last updated:
LUCAS Cover 2006-2018

LUCAS Cover photos 2009-2018 over the EU: 874,646 spatially distributed geo-tagged close-up photos with land cover and plant species label

DATASET | Last updated:
LUCAS Copernicus 2018

The Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey (LUCAS) is a regular in-situ land cover and land use ground survey exercise that extends over the whole of the European Union. LUCAS was carrie...

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Created date
2020-08-17
Modified date
2024-09-25