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Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1119-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-1119-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 13, issue 3
Data description paper
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19 Mar 2021
Data description paper |  | 19 Mar 2021

LUCAS Copernicus 2018: Earth-observation-relevant in situ data on land cover and use throughout the European Union

Raphaël d'Andrimont, Astrid Verhegghen, Michele Meroni, Guido Lemoine, Peter Strobl, Beatrice Eiselt, Momchil Yordanov, Laura Martinez-Sanchez, and Marijn van der Velde

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The Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey (LUCAS) is a regular in situ land cover and land use ground survey exercise that extends over the whole of the European Union. A new LUCAS module specifically tailored to Earth observation was introduced in 2018: the LUCAS Copernicus module. This paper summarizes the LUCAS Copernicus survey and provides the unique resulting data: 58 426 polygons with level-3 land cover (66 specific classes including crop type) and land use (38 classes).
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