CORINE Land Cover Iceland 2024 (CLC)

CORINE Land Cover (CLC) 2024 and CLC Change 2018-2024 are datasets produced under the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, part of the European Union's Earth observation programme, formerly known as GMES (Global Monitoring for Environment and Security). CORINE Land Cover provides harmonised and consistent information on land cover and land cover changes across Europe. The programme was initiated in 1985, with the first reference year being 1990, and has since established a long-term time series of land cover information through successive updates for the reference years 2000, 2006, 2012, 2018, and now 2024. CLC products are derived through the visual interpretation of satellite imagery by national teams from EEA member and cooperating countries, following a common methodology and nomenclature. The dataset is based on a hierarchical three-level classification system comprising 44 land cover classes. Key mapping parameters include a minimum mapping unit (MMU) of 25 hectares for status layers, a minimum width of 100 metres for linear features, and a minimum mapping unit of 5 hectares for land cover change (LCC) mapping. The resulting national land cover inventories are further integrated into a seamless land cover map of Europe. Land cover and land use (LCLU) information is important not only for land change research, but also more broadly for the monitoring of environmental change, policy support, the creation of environmental indicators and reporting. CLC datasets provide important datasets supporting the implementation of key priority areas of the Environment Action Programmes of the European Union as protecting ecosystems, halting the loss of biological diversity, tracking the impacts of climate change, assessing development in agriculture and implementing the EU Water Framework Directive, among others. More about the Corine Land Cover (CLC) and Copernicus land monitoring data in general can be found at http://land.copernicus.eu/