A CORINE map of Great Britain by automated means. Techniques for automatic generalization of the Land Cover Map of Great Britain.

Authors: Robin Fuller; Nigel Brown

Source: Geographical Information Systems, Volume 10, Number 8, 1 December 1996 , pp. 937-953(17)

Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd

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Abstract:

[A]Abstract. The European Commission (EC) programme 'Co-ordination of Information on the Environment` (CORINE) includes a project to map the land cover of member states. The CORINE map is essentially one which combines land cover and land use, giving 44 separate classes, in vector, displayed at a scale of 1:100000 with a minimum mappable unit of 25ha. The Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE) has compiled a digital land cover map of Great Britain (LCMGB) from classification of Landsat-TM data, resampled to a 25 m raster, with a minimum mappable unit of 0.125 ha and 25 cover types. This paper describes a pilot study which demonstrates the successful spatial generalisation with contextual interpretation to convert the LCMGB to CORINE specifications using semi-automated techniques within a GIS environment.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1080/026937996137666

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