Use of CORINE Land Cover in delivering the EEA strategy

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1 Use of CORINE Land Cover in delivering the EEA strategy Prof. Jacqueline McGlade Executive Director

2 EIONET Member Countries national teams / co-funding Commission Services: Acknowledgements JRC: joint coordination of the project (IMAGE2000) DGs Agriculture, Environment, Regional Policy (co-funding) Others: Research, Eurostat Eurimage, Swedish Space Coorporation, Metria multiple use satellite data European Topic Centre on Terrestrial Environment technical coordination

3 CORINE* Land Cover (CLC): A European transboundary land cover database *CORINE: Coordination of Information on the Environment

4 A tool for monitoring Europe s changing landscape Source: J. Jaeger 2004

5 CORINE Land Cover A decade of change

6 Some facts and figures about the project 29+ participating European countries Involvement of local, regional and national expertise > 100 participating organisations (public/private) > 150 person-years for production of the database 13 Meuro based on co-funding 50/50 shared costs Updated every 10 years High number of users (first CLC1990 > users) Large volume data freely accessible: IMAGE2000: 150 Gb / CLC2000: 2 Gb

7 A multi-purpose product number of requests (2004) Environment Research Agriculture Physical Planning Forestry Education Users profile Transport Public Awareness Demography Tourism Other Telecommunications Weighted sum Households Energy EIA 26% Health Air pollution 2% Environmental topics: Climate change 2% Coastal zone management 4% Nature conservation and biodiversity 22% key sectors Others 10% Water management 16% Soil degradation 5% Transboundary issues Urban Waste 2% environment management 6% 5%

8 Based on satellite images IMAGE Ortho-rectified scenes 29 Countries covered 1 Pan-European Mosaic

9 A standard European methodology for mapping land cover changes

10 Example of mapping land use changes (Region of Leipzig) Development of land use / land cover from 1990 to 2000 in 9 grouped change classes

11 Methodology of land cover accounting CORRESPONDANCE BETWEEN LAND COVER CHANGES (CLC LEVEL 3) AND THE LAND COVER FLOWS Map of change 243 Land principally occupied by w ith significant areas of natural vegetation Sport and Fruit trees Construction Green urban Non-irrigated Perm anently Dump sites leisure Rice fields Vineyards and berry Olive groves sites areas arable land irrigated land facilities plantations Extension of dumpsites 244 Agro-forestry areas Extension of dumpsites 311 Broad-leaved forest Extension of dumpsites 312 Coniferous forest Extension of dumpsites 313 Mixed forest Extension of dumpsites 321 Natural grassland Extension of dumpsites 322 Moors and heathland Extension of dumpsites Construction Construction Construction Construction Construction Construction Construction Development of green urban areas Development of green urban areas Development of green urban areas Development of green urban areas Development of green urban areas Development of green urban areas Development of green urban areas Extension of sport and leisure facilities Extension of sport and leisure facilities Extension of sport and leisure facilities Extension of sport and leisure facilities Extension of sport and leisure facilities Extension of sport and leisure facilities Extension of sport and leisure facilities marginal land to Intensification of forest to forest to forest to marginal land to marginal land to marginal land to Intensification of forest to forest to forest to marginal land to marginal land to marginal land to Intensification of forest to forest to forest to marginal land to marginal land to marginal land to Planting of vineyards, fruit and olive trees over arable & pasture forest to forest to forest to marginal land to marginal land to marginal land to Planting of vineyards, fruit and olive trees over arable & pasture forest to forest to forest to marginal land to marginal land to marginal land to Planting of vineyards, fruit and olive trees over arable & pasture forest to forest to forest to marginal land to marginal land to Matrix of change Map of land cover Account of consumption and formation of land cover

12 Example of result of land cover accounts: Ireland, Net Change in Land Cover , 1000 hectares Net Change in Land Cover during the period - ha Thousands Artificial surfaces Arable land & permanent crops Pastures & mixed farmland Forests and transitional woodland shrub Natural grassland, moors, heathland and sclerophylous vegetation Open spaces with little or no vegetation Wetlands Water bodies

13 Ireland Urban sprawl ( ) develops in the remote countryside Total urban & activities sprawl less than 2% 2 to 5 % 5 to 10 % more than 10% Urban morphological zones, pop. > Dominant landscape types A1 Dominant urban landscape A2 Dispersed urban landscape B1 Broad pattern intensive B2 Rural mosaic and pasture C1 Forested landscape C2 Open semi-natural & natural landscape D1 Composite landscape

14 Indicators derived from land accounts Italy Water bodies Wetlands Open spaces with little or no vegetation Artificial surfaces Natural grassland, heathland, sclerophylous vegetation Net Change in Land Cover during the period - ha 0 Arable land & permanent crops Pastures & mixed farmland Forests and transitional woodland shrub Arable land & permanent crops Pastures & mixed farmland Forests and transitional woodland shrub Natural grassland, heathland, sclerophylous vegetation Open spaces with little or no vegetation Wetlands Water bodies Origin of urban land uptake, as % of total uptake Land uptake by mines and and waste dumpsites Land uptake by transport networks & infrastructures Drivers of urban land development - ha/year Main annual conversions between and forests/ dry semi-natural land in ha/year Withdrawal of farming without significant woodland creation Withdrawal of farming with woodland creation Land uptake by industrial & commercial sites Land uptake by housing, services and recreation Conversion from wetlands to Conversion from dry semi-natural & natural land to Conversion from forest to

15 Analysis of urban sprawl in the Mediterranean area Legend Total urban sprawl 2% - 5% 5% - 10% more than 10% Urban morphological zones, pop. > High natural potential: 100 Low natural potential : 0

16 Supporting major EU policies Environment Policy Habitat Directive, Biodiversity convention reference layers NATURA2000 GIS Water Framework Directive characterisations of water catchments Integrated Coastal Zone Management interim evaluation European coastal strategy Climate change Rural Development Regional Policy territorial indicators Research Policy

17 Flood risk management 1980 = EU average built-up area in 2000 : 90 m² / person built-up area population density

18 Halting loss of biodiversity Example Estonia Points of possible conflict 2000 Planning green corridors 2010

19 Modelling soil erosion risk example Germany t/ha*y tons/ha/year Erosion (t/ha*y)

20 Indicator Reporting on the Integration of ENvironmental concerns into Agricultural policy Agri-environment indicators example Netherlands IRENA

21 IRENA Distribution Land cover based estimate

22 IRENA Distribution Farm system based estimate

23 IRENA Distribution Species based estimate

24 IRENA Farming intensity trends

25 IRENA Species richness

26 IRENA Agri-environment schemes

27 IRENA Targeting

28 PRELUDE Context: demography Aging and depopulation

29 Data dissemination from 17 Nov 2004 onwards: Widest possible dissemination - results are available free of charge A first step towards building a European Spatial Data Infrastructure (INSPIRE)

30 Data dissemination from 17 Nov 2004 onwards:

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33 Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Services In-situ systems GMES Space systems Data Integration & Information Management

34 Benefits Focus Natural & Human Induced Disasters Water Resources Terrestrial, Coastal & Marine Ecosystems Human Health & Well-Being Energy Resources Sustainable Agriculture & Desertification Weather Information, Forecasting & Warning Climate Variability & Change Biodiversity

35 Building the European Spatial Data Infrastructure EEA information services EIONET National Data centres User Emissions data Data from other Directives Internet Internet (Geonetwork (Inspire) Inspire) CCM International Conventions Sub-national Data centres GMES

36 EEA information services Priority Priority data data flows flows Application Application services services EEA Node Quality control/ Quality assurance Assessments Assessments Knowledge Knowledge reference reference services services Map Map services services Data Data distribution distribution services services Search Search & metadata metadata services services User EEA EEA access access service service (24/7 (24/7 uptime) uptime) EEA EEA service service monitoring monitoring

37 Thank you for your attention!