Nomenclature
Land Cover (LC) marking and short name | Short description of the category | |
1 | Woody vegetation canopy cover | Canopies of free-standing trees, upper canopy contours of contiguous groups of trees. |
2 | Gaps in the forest canopy | Surfaces without canopy cover between forest trees. |
3 | Artificial objects | Built objects, buildings, fences, signs, etc. |
4 | Uncovered water surfaces | Water surface not covered by vegetation or artificial objects. |
41 | Bogs | Sponge-structured wetlands where the soil consists of peat (peat moss and other humified-peated plant-derived materials). Areas under constant moisture, which in principle never dry out. |
42 | Land swamps | Freshwater swamps. |
43 | Still water | Lakes, reservoirs. |
44 | River | Water surfaces of streams, streams, rivers, streams. |
45 | Reedbeds | Flat surfaces covered by aquatic reed. |
5 | Barren soil | Dirt roads, stabilized soils, rammed soil, without vegetation. |
6 | Lawns | Natural grasslands, meadows. |
7 | Barren rocks | Debris, rock walls, rocks, rock outcrops. |
8 | Artificial coverings | Concrete, tarred, asphalted surfaces. |
9 | Anthropogenic areas | Densely built-up contiguous areas covered with nonnatural vegetation between buildings and solid pavements. |
91 | Urban green spaces | Areas covered with vegetation in the settlement structure. These include city parks and vegetated cemeteries. |
92 | Intensively used urban green spaces | Campsites, sports fields, leisure parks, golf courses, racecourses, etc. infrastructures. |
11 | Extraction of raw materials | Surface extraction of raw materials (sand mines, quarries) or other materials extraction (opencast mines). |
12 | Landfills, waste dumps | Mining, industrial or public waste landfills, landfills. |
13. | Construction sites | Areas under construction, land or bedrock extraction, areas affected by earthworks. |
14. | Agricultural land | Cereal production, field vegetable production, fodder production, crop plants, and fallow land. |
15. | Vineyards | Areas planted with vines. |
16. | Orchards | Plots of land planted with fruit trees and shrubs: homogeneous crops or mixed fruit varieties, fruit trees with permanently grassy surfaces. Areas of sweet chestnuts and walnut trees are also included. |
17. | Meadow / pasture | High productivity, grassy areas, where species belonging to the family Gramineae predominate. The areas are (mainly) grazed or utilized by mowing. They do not use crop rotation in these areas, but they can use sowing, fertilization, water regulation, and irrigation. |
18. | Shrubland | Shrubland vegetation accounts for greater than 20% of vegetative cover and the soil. |