Land Cover and Forest Indicator Service
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Profile of Service Package
Basic land cover information and forest indicators are essential for environmental monitoring and particularly important within the context of specific environmental and nature protection policies. Under GSE-FM, indicators provide inputs for environmental monitoring and modelling purposes highlighting the role of forests in issues such as air pollution, stresses within ecosystems, soil and water resources etc. Forest indicators also highlight the status and changes in the spatial structure of forests. Consequently, they describe aspects of the inherent diversity of forests and thus highlight biodiversity at national and international levels. The GSE-FM outputs enhance the details provided by CORINE Land Cover (CLC) delivering higher spatial, temporal and thematic resolutions. This process better aggregates and illustrates the regional diversity of the natural environment including the overall status, pressures and adverse impacts. In summary, the process captures changes of a smaller magnitude with more frequent updates thereby reflecting the contemporaneous situation on the ground. The service provides indicators for user-defined geographical areas by using EO based forest maps as inputs to derive indicators in the form of ´metrics´ or measures for composition, patch, edge, shape, core areas, nearest neighbour and diversity. Target groups for the forest environmental indicators service include sub-national, national, pan European and other international bodies with interests in environmental and/or forestry issues. Specific Service Features
ProductsThe following products are combined to a customised service package:Customisation OptionsCORINE-Refinement, based on existing CORINE level 3 mapping
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