Description
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 carried out in 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2018. A new LUCAS module specifically tailored to Earth Observation was introduced in 2018: the LUCAS Copernicus module, aiming at surveying land cover extent up to 51 meters in four cardinal directions around a point of observation. This paper first summarizes the LUCAS Copernicus protocol to collect homogeneous land cover on a surface area of up to a 0.52 ha. Secondly, it proposes a methodology to create a ready-to-use dataset for Earth Observation land cover and land use applications with high resolution satellite imagery. As a result, a total of 63,364 LUCAS points distributed over 26 level-2 land cover classes were surveyed on the ground. Using homogeneous extent information in the four cardinal direction, a polygon was delineated for each of such point. Through geo-spatial analysis and by semantically linking the LUCAS core and Copernicus land cover observations, 58,428 polygons are provided with a level-3 land cover (66 specific classes including crop type) and land use (38 classes) information as inherited from the LUCAS core observation.
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Contributors
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- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- https://ec.europa.eu/info/departments/joint-research-centre
How to cite
European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) (2018): LUCAS Copernicus 2018. European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/cfe66a0c-bdee-4074-96e1-a2f7030b9515
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Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2021-01-22
- Modified date
- 2021-01-25
- Issued date
- 2018-12-22
- Data theme(s)
- Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food, Environment, Science and technology
- Update frequency
- triennial
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/cfe66a0c-bdee-4074-96e1-a2f7030b9515
- Popularity
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