CORINE Land Cover 5 ha: Status 2015 for Germany

CORINE Land Cover 5 ha (CLC5) 2015 presents a landscape description in grid format under the CLC nomenclature, reflecting land cover and use. The dataset was produced by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie, generalizing detailed land cover and land use models to a 5-hectare minimum mapping unit. It is derived from intersecting land cover models for 2015 and 2018 to identify changes and recalculate the 2015 status.

Use Cases

• Landscape change detection based on the intersection of 2015 and 2018 land cover models mentioned in the description
• Urban sealing and vegetation analysis based on the included sealing (SIE) and vegetation content (VEG) information
• Land use classification and mapping based on the CLC nomenclature combining land cover and land use aspects

Strengths

• Based on detailed land cover models (LBM-DE) with a 1-hectare minimum mapping unit before generalization
• Integrates multiple data aspects: land cover (LB), land use (LN), sealing (SIE), and vegetation content (VEG)
• Derived from change analysis by intersecting 2015 and 2018 datasets to recalculate the 2015 status

Limitations

• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• 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 2015 (LBM-DE2015) and 2018 (LBM-DE2018), intersected to identify changes, generalized to 5 ha.

Time Range

Status 2015, with change analysis referencing 2018 data.

Geography

Germany