Articles | Volume 14, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4463-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-14-4463-2022
Data description paper
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30 Sep 2022
Data description paper |  | 30 Sep 2022

LUCAS cover photos 2006–2018 over the EU: 874 646 spatially distributed geo-tagged close-up photos with land cover and plant species label

Raphaël d'Andrimont, Momchil Yordanov, Laura Martinez-Sanchez, Peter Haub, Oliver Buck, Carsten Haub, Beatrice Eiselt, and Marijn van der Velde

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d’Andrimont, R., Yordanov, M., Martinez-Sanchez, L., Eiselt, B., Palmieri, A., Dominici, P., Gallego, J., Reuter, H. I., Joebges, C., Lemoine, G., and van der Velde, M.: Harmonised LUCAS in-situ land cover and use database for field surveys from 2006 to 2018 in the European Union, Sci. Data, 7, 1–15, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00675-z​​​​​​​, 2020. a, b, c, d, e
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European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC): LUCAS Cover 2006–2018, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [data set], http://data.europa.eu/89h/c83906d7-1817-495f-b4ba-f2e4b8859d48 (last access: 29 September 2022), 2022. a
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Between 2006 and 2018, 875 661 LUCAS cover (i.e. close-up) photos were taken over a systematic sample of the European Union. This geo-located photo dataset has been curated and is being made available along with the surveyed label data, including land cover and plant species.
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