CORINE Land Cover 5 ha: Landscape Classification for Germany, 2012

CORINE Land Cover 5 ha (CLC5) 2012 is a vector dataset describing landscape in Germany. It combines land cover and land use information from detailed models, generalized to a minimum mapping unit of 5 hectares. The data is provided by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie under the Data licence Germany – attribution – Version 2.0.

Use Cases

• Analyze land cover change patterns based on the generalized 5-hectare mapping units.
• Model urban sprawl and sealing based on the included sealing (SIE) information.
• Assess vegetation coverage and its changes using the vegetation content (VEG) data.
• Classify landscapes for environmental reporting based on the standardized CLC nomenclature.

Strengths

• Derived from detailed land cover models (LBM-DE2012 and LBM-DE2015) with a 1-hectare source resolution.
• Combines land cover (LB), land use (LN), sealing (SIE), and vegetation content (VEG) into a single product.
• Uses the standardized CORINE Land Cover (CLC) classification system.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Collection Method

Derived from land cover models Germany 2012 (LBM-DE2012) and 2015 (LBM-DE2015), generalized from 1 ha to 5 ha.

Time Range

Stand 2012

Geography

Germany