LittoMOS: National Coastal Land Tenure Data from 2000-2006

LittoMOS is a harmonized land cover layer for the French coast, created by the Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM). It reconstructs and updates the national Permanent Littoral Inventory (IPLI) using data from 2000 to 2006. The dataset provides land cover information at two levels of detail based on an adaptation of the Corine Land Cover (CLC) nomenclature.

Use Cases

• Analyze coastal land use change over time based on the 2000-2006 temporal coverage
• Map detailed land cover types for departmental-level planning based on the level 4 CLC nomenclature
• Visualize national coastal land tenure patterns at a 1/25,000 scale for broad assessments

Strengths

• Provides land cover data for the entire French national coast
• Offers two levels of detail: a national overview and detailed departmental mapping
• Uses a harmonized nomenclature derived from the established Corine Land Cover standard

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment

Provenance

Source

BUREAU DE RECHERCHES GÉOLOGIQUES ET MINIÈRES

Collection Method

Reconstruction and update of existing local land use data, harmonized to a CLC-derived nomenclature.

Time Range

2000-2006

Geography

National coast of France