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Service Description: LUCAS is the acronym of Land Use and Cover Area frame Survey.
The aim of the LUCAS survey is to gather harmonised information on land use and land cover. The survey also provides territorial information facilitating the analysis of the interactions between agriculture, environment and countryside, such as irrigation and land management.
Since 2006, EUROSTAT has carried out LUCAS surveys every three years. 2006 data is considered pilot and has not been used to produce estimates. The most recent surveys happened in the spring-summer of 2009, 2012 and 2015. For the statistical sample of the LUCAS survey, a regular 2 km grid with over 1,100,000 points is overlaid on the EU territory. In 2015, the LUCAS survey was carried out in 28 European countries. In 2015 LUCAS points were either visited by field surveyors or photo interpreted in the office.
Since the LUCAS surveys are carried out in-situ, this means that observations are made and registered on the ground by field surveyors. A panel approach is used, so some points have been visited in subsequent years.
In the field, the surveyor classifies the land cover and the visible land use according to the harmonized LUCAS Survey land cover and land use classifications. Landscape pictures are taken in the four cardinal directions. A transect of 250m is walked from the point to the east direction, where the surveyor records all transitions of land cover and existing linear features. A specific soil module was implemented on 2009 and partly in 2012.
More information about the LUCAS survey (methodology and classification) can be found at the Eurostat LUCAS website.
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Comments: LUCAS is the acronym of Land Use and Cover Area frame Survey.
The aim of the LUCAS survey is to gather harmonised information on land use and land cover. The survey also provides territorial information facilitating the analysis of the interactions between agriculture, environment and countryside, such as irrigation and land management.
Since 2006, EUROSTAT has carried out LUCAS surveys every three years. 2006 data is considered pilot and has not been used to produce estimates. The most recent surveys happened in the spring-summer of 2009, 2012 and 2015. For the statistical sample of the LUCAS survey, a regular 2 km grid with over 1,100,000 points is overlaid on the EU territory. In 2015, the LUCAS survey was carried out in 28 European countries. In 2015 LUCAS points were either visited by field surveyors or photo interpreted in the office.
Since the LUCAS surveys are carried out in-situ, this means that observations are made and registered on the ground by field surveyors. A panel approach is used, so some points have been visited in subsequent years.
In the field, the surveyor classifies the land cover and the visible land use according to the harmonized LUCAS Survey land cover and land use classifications. Landscape pictures are taken in the four cardinal directions. A transect of 250m is walked from the point to the east direction, where the surveyor records all transitions of land cover and existing linear features. A specific soil module was implemented on 2009 and partly in 2012.
More information about the LUCAS survey (methodology and classification) can be found at the Eurostat LUCAS website.
Subject: Land Use and Cover Area frame Survey Data (LUCAS) 2015
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