lucas_abruzzo: LUCAS data for the region "Abruzzo", Italy.
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lucas_abruzzo

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LUCAS data for the region "Abruzzo", Italy.

Description

The land use/cover area frame statistical survey, abbreviated as LUCAS, is a European field survey program funded and executed by Eurostat. Its objective is to set up area frame surveys for the provision of coherent and harmonised statistics on land use and land cover in the European Union (EU). Note that in LUCAS survey the concept of land is extended to inland water areas (lakes, river, coastal areas, etc.) and does not embrace uses below the earth's surface (mine deposits, subways, etc.). The LUCAS survey is a point survey, in particular the basic unit of observation is a circle with a radius of 1.5m (corresponding to an identifiable point on an orthophoto). In the classification there is a clear distinction between land cover and land use: land cover means physical cover ("material") observed at the earth's surface; land use means socio-economic function of the observed earth's surface. For each of both we assign a code to identified which type the point is. Land cover has 8 main categories, which are indicated by letter:

A: artificial land
B: cropland
C: woodland
D: shrubland
E: grassland
F: bareland
G: water
H: wetlands

Every main category has subclasses, which are indicated by the combination of the letter of the category and digits. Altogether there are 84 classes. Land use has 14 main categories. It has altogether 33 classes, which are indicated by the combination of the letter U and three digits.

Usage

lucas_abruzzo

Format

A data frame with 2699 rows and 7 variables:

id: identified code for the unit spatial point
prov: province
elev: elevation of the unit spatial point, meant as the height above or below sea level
x: coordinate x
y: coordinate y
lc: land cover code
lu: land use code