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Continuous Urban fabric (S.L. > 80%)
Discontinuous Dense Urban Fabric (S.L.: 50% - 80%)
Discontinuous Medium Density Urban Fabric (S.L.: 30% - 50%)
Discontinuous Low Density Urban Fabric (S.L.: 10% - 30%)
Discontinuous Very Low Density Urban Fabric (S.L. < 10%)
Isolated Structures
Industrial, commercial, public, military and private units
Fast transit roads and associated land
Other roads and associated land
Railways and associated land
Port areas
Airports
Mineral extraction and dump sites
Construction sites
Land without current use
Green urban areas
Sports and leisure facilities
Agricultural Areas, semi-natural areas and wetlands
Forests
Water
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Observing our planet for a safer world
The Local component of the Copernicus
a comparison can be made between the
Land Monitoring Service
Land Monitoring Service is also managed by
the EEA. It aims to provide specific and more
situation before and after the crisis to
understand if and how this can be prevented
The Copernicus Land Monitoring Service is part of the Copernicus Programme, which is an EU
Programme managed by the European Commission (EC) and implemented in partnership with the
Member States, the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Organisation for the Exploitation
of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), the European Centre for medium-range Weather Forecasts
(ECMWF), EU Agencies and Mercator Océan. The Programme is aimed at developing a set of European
detailed information complementing the
information produced by the Pan-European
component. It focuses on “hotspots”
which are prone to specific environmental
challenges in Europe.
by smart urban planning.
Bruxelles / Brussel
High Resolution Layer
Forest Tree cover density
(Brno, CZ)
information services based on satellite Earth Observation and in-situ (non-space) data analyses.
What is the Copernicus
Land Monitoring Service?
The Copernicus Land Monitoring Service provides
the energy budget (e.g. land surface temperature) and
the water cycle (e.g. soil water index, water bodies)
every ten days and on a worldwide scale.
geographical information on land cover, land use, The biophysical parameters production is
land cover-use changes over the years, vegetation
state or water cycle. Applications that are built upon
and integrate the information supplied by the service
can provide support in areas such as spatial planning,
complemented with an activity providing detailed
and high resolution land cover - land use information
on specific hot spot areas around the world, mainly
targeted to support biodiversity preservation.
forest management, water management, agriculture
and food security and emergency management,
amongst others.
Service priorities and their relevance to users are
defined and validated by the EC and the Member
States.
The service became operational in 2012.
The Pan-European component is managed by the
What does the Land Monitoring Service do?
The three main components of the Copernicus Land
Monitoring Service are currently:
A Global component;
A Pan-European component;
EEA and is producing high resolution information
sets describing the main land cover types: artificial
surfaces (e.g. roads and paved areas), forest areas,
agricultural areas (grasslands), wetlands and small
water bodies.
A Local component.
The Global component of the Copernicus Land
Monitoring Service is managed by the European
Commission’s Directorate Joint Research Centre. It
produces biophysical parameters that give a picture
of the state of vegetation (e.g. leaf area index, fraction
of green vegetation cover, vegetation condition index),
Space
The Urban Atlas, one of the local components,
focuses on the mapping and change analysis
of urban areas. It provides reliable, intercountry
comparable, high resolution land
use maps for 695 European cities and their
surroundings for the reference years 2006
and 2012 which allow land use comparisons
across cities and over time.
The Urban Atlas is used to detect building
footprints, land use changes, urban sprawl
and urban green area decline and high urban
densities. The information is used to prioritise
public transport, support emergency planning
or promote sustainable urban development
in general in a pan-European comparable
mode.
For example, in the case of mapping
areas affected by emergency situations,
Larger Urban Zone: Bruxelles / Brussel
REGIOgis
Urban Atlas map: Brussels
Who can use it and is it for free?
The Copernicus data policy promotes the
access, use and sharing of Copernicus
information and data on a full, free and
open basis. There is no restriction on use
or reproduction and redistribution, with or
without adaptation, for commercial or noncommercial
purposes.
This data policy applies to the data and
information generated within the Copernicus
programme, i.e., Sentinel mission data and
Copernicus service information.
Users can find out more about the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service at: http://land.copernicus.eu/
Corine Land cover
(minimum mapping unit 25 ha)
Corine Land Cover: the distribution
of aggregated land cover classes
Global Land biophysical
parameters: Albedo
Photo credits: Land iStock©Dariusz Paciorek; Deforestation Fotalia ©guentermanaus; Demographic expansion iStock ©Ammit; All the maps are provided by ©EC.