LBM-DE2018: Land Cover Model for Germany

Germany's land cover is mapped in this dataset for the reference year 2018. The Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie created it by adapting national topographic data to the CORINE Land Cover nomenclature and updating it with satellite imagery. The minimum mapping area is 1 hectare.

Use Cases

• Monitor land cover change over time based on the triennial update cycle.
• Analyze land cover patterns based on the CORINE Land Cover nomenclature.
• Integrate land cover information with other geospatial data based on the 1-hectare minimum mapping unit.

Strengths

• Uses satellite imagery with 5-meter ground pixel resolution.
• Has a minimum mapping area of 1 hectare.
• Updated on a three-year cycle since 2009.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• The service is provided exclusively to federal authorities, limiting public access.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Collection Method

Adapted from ATKIS® basic DLM and updated with multi-temporal RapidEye satellite data.

Time Range

2018

Freshness

Updated triennially; reference year is 2018.

Geography

Germany