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Fast Track Service / CORINE Land Cover 2006
Based on previous consolidation results, the European Environment Agency (EEA) has added the first Pan-European High-Resolution Land Cover Data to its data service: a Sealing Layer and a Forest Layer covering entire Europe. In addition, the CORINE Land Cover database, existing since the 1990s, was updated for the third time for the year 2006.
The ambition is to add further high-resolution layers during the coming years during the implementation of the Land Information Core Services
More information at: GSE Land or by asking a question here
Urban Atlas
Quality of Life in Europe’s cities is being recorded by the Urban Audit initiative of DG Regional Cohesion and DG Environment. The Urban Atlas Core Service Element is to add a spatial dimension, e.g. to show the accessibility to green urban areas or to enable the localization of abstract statistical parameters (e.g. population density).
More information at GSE Land Urban Atlas or by asking a question here
Forest Monitoring
Forest Monitoring Services provide innovative, timely, cost-effective and quality-assured forest information to support reporting on national and international policies such as the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the Kyoto Protocol, the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (UNCBD), the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE) and processes related to Streamlining European Biodiversity Indicators by 2010 (SEBI 2010). Making use of Earth Observation methodologies allows retrieving spatially explicit information on the state and development of forests from continental to regional scale in a cost-efficient way and at proven high quality.
More information at: GMES Forest or by asking a question here
Water Quality
Water Quality Services address the Water Framework Directive (WFD) obligating the EU Member States to manage, monitor and report the status of the water resources on river basin scale. The services focus on identification and management of nutrient and pesticide inputs into the water cycle resulting from diffuse and point sources.
More information at: GSE Land Water Quality or by asking a question here
Spatial Development
The Spatial Development Service provides spatially referenced and consistent geo-information for monitoring of urban structure, urban growth and soil sealing in support of reporting obligations. Products describe the pressure, state and impact of urban land take for integrated spatial planning.
More information at:
GSE Land Urban Atlas
GSE Land Impervious Areas
... or by asking a question here
Environmental Resource Management in Africa
The Service for Environmental Resource Management in Africa ensures permanent access to high quality pre-processed data for all African countries by using advanced satellite telecommunication infrastructures. Products of the service comprise advanced environmental parameters (in particular related to vegetation conditions), processed according to standard procedures, as well as maps such as land cover maps, forest maps, etc.
More information at:
Geoland Observatory on Food Security and Crop Monitoring
Geoland Observatory on Land Cover and Forest Change
... or by asking a question here
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