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A CORINE map of Great Britain by automated means. Techniques for automatic generalization of the Land Cover Map of Great Britain

Fuller, R.; Brown, N.. 1996 A CORINE map of Great Britain by automated means. Techniques for automatic generalization of the Land Cover Map of Great Britain. International Journal of Geographical Information Systems, 10 (8). 937-953. 10.1080/02693799608902118

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Abstract/Summary

The European Commission (EC) programme ‘Co–ordination of Information on the Environment’ (CORINE) includes a project to map the land cover of member states. The CORINE map is essentially one which combines land cover and land use, giving 44 separate classes, in vector, displayed at a scale of 1:100000 with a minimum mappable unit of 25 ha. The Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE) has compiled a digital land cover map of Great Britain (LCMGB) from classification of Landsat–TM data, resampled to a 25 m raster, with a minimum mappable unit of 0.125 ha and 25 cover types. This paper describes a pilot study which demonstrates the successful spatial generalisation with contextual interpretation to convert the LCMGB to CORINE specifications using semi–automated techniques within a GIS environment.

Item Type: Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1080/02693799608902118
Programmes: CEH Programmes pre-2009 publications > Other
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas: _ Pre-2000 sections
Additional Keywords: Land Cover Map, Great Britain, LCM, LCMGB, CORINE
NORA Subject Terms: Ecology and Environment
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Date made live: 04 Nov 2008 15:06 +0 (UTC)
URI: https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/4724

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