Copernicus CLC products on biophysical land use and its changes (every 6 years)

The Corine Land Cover (CLC) product is an inventory of biophysical soil cover in 3 levels with 44 classes. It provides geographical reference information for different reference dates and information on changes between 2 dates. The inventory covers the biophysical occupation of the soil (nature of crops, forests, water surfaces, etc.) rather than its use (socio-economic function). Its applications are numerous in the field of the environment or spatial planning (monitoring of natural areas, landscape analysis, monitoring of the consumption of space, etc.). For metropolitan France, the inventory covers land and sea territory up to a buffer zone 10 km away at sea. It is produced at scale 1: 100,000, the smallest mapped areas have an area of 25 ha, or a minimum width of 100 m for linear objects. It is available in vector and raster formats. The product “Corine Land Change” (CLC Change) maps soil cover changes between 2 dates. Changes reflecting a real change in land cover (e.g. new urbanisation, planting of new forests, new body of water) with an area of more than 5 ha of surface with a minimum width of 100 m. Change layers are available in vector and raster formats. For displaying WMS streams, raster format is displayed at low zoom levels and vector format at high zoom levels. This sheet gives you access to WMS feeds and data download links on the Copernicus website.