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Article

Comparison of CORINE Land Cover Data with National Statistics and the Possibility to Record This Data on a Local Scale—Case Studies from Slovakia

by
Vladimír Falťan
1,
František Petrovič
2,*,
Ján Oťaheľ
3,4,
Ján Feranec
4,
Michal Druga
1,
Matej Hruška
1,
Jozef Nováček
4,
Vladimír Solár
3 and
Veronika Mechurová
1
1
Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Mlynská dolina, Ilkovičova 6, 842 15 Bratislava, Slovakia
2
Department of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Tr. A. Hlinku 1, 949 01 Nitra, Slovakia
3
Department of Geography and Applied Geoinformatics, Faculty of Humanities and Natural Sciences, University of Prešov, 17. Novembra 1, 080 01 Prešov, Slovakia
4
Institute of Geography, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Štefánikova 49, 814 73 Bratislava, Slovakia
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Remote Sens. 2020, 12(15), 2484; https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12152484
Submission received: 12 June 2020 / Revised: 27 July 2020 / Accepted: 29 July 2020 / Published: 3 August 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue CORINE Land Cover System: Limits and Challenges for Territorial Studies and Planning)
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Abstract

Monitoring of land cover (LC) provides important information of actual land use (LU) and landscape dynamics. LC research results depend on the size of the area, purpose and applied methodology. CORINE Land Cover (CLC) data is one of the most important sources of LU data from a European perspective. Our research compares official CLC data (third hierarchical level of nomenclature at a scale of 1:100,000) and national statistics (NS) of LU in Slovakia between 2000 and 2018 at national, county, and local levels. The most significant differences occurred in arable land and permanent grassland, which is also related to the recording method and the development of agricultural land management. Due to the abandonment of agricultural areas, a real recorded increase in forest cover due to forest succession was not introduced in the official records of Land register. New modification of CLC methodology for identifying LC classes at a scale of 1:10,000 and fifth hierarchical level of CLC is firstly applied for local case studies representing lowland, basin, and mountain landscape. The size of the least identified and simultaneously recorded area was established at 0.1 ha the minimum width of a polygon was established at 10 m, the minimum recorded width of linear elements such as communications was established at 2 m. The use of the fifth CLC level in the case studies areas generated average boundary density 17.2 km/km2, comparing to the 2.6 km/km2 of the third level. Therefore, when measuring the density of spatial information by the polygon boundary lengths, the fifth level carries 6.6 times more information than the third level. Detailed investigation of LU affords better verification of national statistics data at a local level. This study also contributes to a more detailed recording of the current state of the Central European landscape and its changes.
Keywords: CORINE data; land use; landscape dynamics; detailed land cover identification; national statistics CORINE data; land use; landscape dynamics; detailed land cover identification; national statistics
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Falťan, V.; Petrovič, F.; Oťaheľ, J.; Feranec, J.; Druga, M.; Hruška, M.; Nováček, J.; Solár, V.; Mechurová, V. Comparison of CORINE Land Cover Data with National Statistics and the Possibility to Record This Data on a Local Scale—Case Studies from Slovakia. Remote Sens. 2020, 12, 2484. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12152484

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Falťan V, Petrovič F, Oťaheľ J, Feranec J, Druga M, Hruška M, Nováček J, Solár V, Mechurová V. Comparison of CORINE Land Cover Data with National Statistics and the Possibility to Record This Data on a Local Scale—Case Studies from Slovakia. Remote Sensing. 2020; 12(15):2484. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12152484

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Falťan, Vladimír, František Petrovič, Ján Oťaheľ, Ján Feranec, Michal Druga, Matej Hruška, Jozef Nováček, Vladimír Solár, and Veronika Mechurová. 2020. "Comparison of CORINE Land Cover Data with National Statistics and the Possibility to Record This Data on a Local Scale—Case Studies from Slovakia" Remote Sensing 12, no. 15: 2484. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12152484

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Falťan, V., Petrovič, F., Oťaheľ, J., Feranec, J., Druga, M., Hruška, M., Nováček, J., Solár, V., & Mechurová, V. (2020). Comparison of CORINE Land Cover Data with National Statistics and the Possibility to Record This Data on a Local Scale—Case Studies from Slovakia. Remote Sensing, 12(15), 2484. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs12152484

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