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Asked 8 June 2021

Do you know links to local (open data) land cover/land use maps from continental Europa ?

Hello,
I am trying to find high detail information about the land cover/land use maps openly distributed by governamental agencies in all Eurasian countries. I am also interested in crop type maps and forest type maps, as well as marine ecosystem maps. I already know about initiatives like Open Street Map, but this is not always complete. There are also many dataset available from Copernicus, but this is not always enough (and it doesn't cover all countries). Basically, I think that I could find most European scale datasets when English search is possible. But my problem is mainly for countries of different languages, where the search by a non native speaker is more difficult despite computer translation. So with everyones collaboration, maybe we could list the ressources available in your own countries (or the fact that the data is not openly available is also interesting, so that I stop looking). Information on how to download the data (in the language of the site) would be a generous addition to providing the url.
Many thanks

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Julien Radoux
Catholic University of Louvain
Dear Pietro,
Yes, this is exactly the type of information that I am looking for. Thank you.

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Julien Radoux
Catholic University of Louvain
Dear Pietro Milanesi , thank you for your interesting paper.
I already know about the ESA land cover CCI project (by the way, you can cite this paper instead of the Website : ) It is a long time series but I am looking for higher spatial and thematic resolution maps (Worldcover is not yet available for download on Europe). Do you have some maps from Switzerland with, e.g., forest types, small ponds, hedges, crop types ?
Best wishes,
Julien
Julien Radoux
Catholic University of Louvain
Dear Pietro,
Yes, this is exactly the type of information that I am looking for. Thank you.

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