CORINE Land Cover 5ha: Land Use Data for Germany (2015)

Germany's land cover data from the CORINE Land Cover 5ha (CLC5) project for 2015. The dataset is transformed for the INSPIRE theme Land Cover and provided via a Web Feature Service (WFS) by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie.

Use Cases

• Model land use and land cover change based on the CORINE classification scheme.
• Analyze spatial patterns of urban, agricultural, and natural areas across Germany.
• Integrate land cover data into environmental impact assessments based on the INSPIRE-compliant format.

Strengths

• Data is provided through an INSPIRE-compliant web service, suggesting standardized access.
• Focuses on a specific, high-resolution 5-hectare grid for land cover mapping.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Collection Method

Transformed from the CORINE Land Cover 5ha (CLC5) project.

Time Range

2015

Geography

Germany