On the basis of our results, we suggest possible uses of the European CORINE land cover database in case studies.
We then modified the first national land cover dataset (GIRAS, 1975) to make it compatible with the contemporary national land cover database (1994 2006).
50-year return period wind speeds have been calculated using yearly maxima from daily surface data and the Corine Land Use Land Cover database.
Since the early 1990s, three U.S. National Land Cover Database (NLCD) products (circa 1992, 2001, and 2006) have been released as free downloads for users.
The CORINE (CO-oRdination of INformation on the Environment; JRC-EEA 2005) land cover database for the year 2000 was used to select the extent of different land use types (cropland, grassland, forest land) to present the results.
The Canadian Forest Service, in collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency and other federal and provincial agencies, is producing a national land cover database of the forested area of Canada Earthh Observation for Sustainable Development of Forests (EOSD)) using Landsat-7 ETM+ data for circa 2000 conditions.
We examined the relationship between cover patterns of emergent aquatic plants derived from the CORINE land cover database, and environmental gradients (i.e. lake, climate and land cover and soil variables) at four different buffer scales (50 m, 100 m, 300 m and 500 m) in 408 boreal lakes in Finland.
Land-cover data were obtained from the 1-km x 1-km resolution South America Seasonal Land Cover database, accessed from the same source.
Using the 2005 land-cover database map (Killeen et al. 2007), evenly separated rectangular blocks were delineated perpendicular to the main road associated with deforestation.
Based on the land-cover database published by Killeen et al. (2007), our results show that loss of vegetation was greatest between 1991 and 2001.
