About this Dataset

LUCAS Copernicus 2018

The Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey (LUCAS) is a regular in-situ land cover and land use ground survey exercise that extends over the whole of the European Union. LUCAS was carried out in 2006, 2009, 2012, 2015, and 2018. A new LUCAS module specifically tailored to Earth Observation was introduced in 2018: the LUCAS Copernicus module, aiming at surveying land cover extent up to 51 meters in four cardinal directions around a point of observation. This paper first summarizes the LUCAS Copernicus protocol to collect homogeneous land cover on a surface area of up to a 0.52 ha. Secondly, it proposes a methodology to create a ready-to-use dataset for Earth Observation land cover and land use applications with high resolution satellite imagery. As a result, a total of 63,364 LUCAS points distributed over 26 level-2 land cover classes were surveyed on the ground. Using homogeneous extent information in the four cardinal direction, a polygon was delineated for each of such point. Through geo-spatial analysis and by semantically linking the LUCAS core and Copernicus land cover observations, 58,428 polygons are provided with a level-3 land cover (66 specific classes including crop type) and land use (38 classes) information as inherited from the LUCAS core observation.
Publisher name: Joint Research Centre
Publisher URL: https://commission.europa.eu/about/departments-and-executive-agencies/joint-research-centre
Last updated: 2024-10-11T00:17:57Z

Tables

LUCAS 2018 Copernicus Polygons

@ecjrc.cfe66a0c_bdee_4074_96e1_a2f7030b9515.lucas_2018_copernicus_polygons

11.09 MB
63,287 rows
120 columns

CREATE TABLE lucas_2018_copernicus_polygons (
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  "point_id" BIGINT,
  "year" BIGINT,
  "nuts0" VARCHAR,
  "nuts1" VARCHAR,
  "nuts2" VARCHAR,
  "nuts3" VARCHAR,
  "th_lat" DOUBLE,
  "th_long" DOUBLE,
  "office_pi" BIGINT,
  "ex_ante" BIGINT,
  "survey_date" VARCHAR,
  "car_latitude" DOUBLE,
  "car_ew" VARCHAR,
  "car_longitude" DOUBLE,
  "gps_proj" VARCHAR,
  "gps_prec" BIGINT,
  "gps_altitude" BIGINT,
  "gps_lat" DOUBLE,
  "gps_ew" VARCHAR,
  "gps_long" DOUBLE,
  "obs_dist" BIGINT,
  "obs_direct" VARCHAR,
  "obs_type" VARCHAR,
  "obs_radius" VARCHAR,
  "letter_group" VARCHAR,
  "lc1" VARCHAR,
  "lc1_label" VARCHAR,
  "lc1_spec" VARCHAR,
  "lc1_spec_label" VARCHAR,
  "lc1_perc" VARCHAR,
  "lc2" VARCHAR,
  "lc2_label" VARCHAR,
  "lc2_spec" VARCHAR,
  "lc2_spec_label" VARCHAR,
  "lc2_perc" VARCHAR,
  "lu1" VARCHAR,
  "lu1_label" VARCHAR,
  "lu1_type" VARCHAR,
  "lu1_type_label" VARCHAR,
  "lu1_perc" VARCHAR,
  "lu2" VARCHAR,
  "lu2_label" VARCHAR,
  "lu2_type" VARCHAR,
  "lu2_type_label" VARCHAR,
  "lu2_perc" VARCHAR,
  "parcel_area_ha" VARCHAR,
  "tree_height_maturity" VARCHAR,
  "tree_height_survey" VARCHAR,
  "feature_width" VARCHAR,
  "lm_stone_walls" VARCHAR,
  "crop_residues" VARCHAR,
  "lm_grass_margins" VARCHAR,
  "grazing" VARCHAR,
  "special_status" VARCHAR,
  "lc_lu_special_remark" VARCHAR,
  "cprn_cando" VARCHAR,
  "cprn_lc" VARCHAR,
  "cprn_lc_label" VARCHAR,
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  "cprnc_lc1e" BIGINT,
  "cprnc_lc1s" BIGINT,
  "cprnc_lc1w" BIGINT,
  "cprn_lc1n_brdth" BIGINT,
  "cprn_lc1e_brdth" BIGINT,
  "cprn_lc1s_brdth" BIGINT,
  "cprn_lc1w_brdth" BIGINT,
  "cprn_lc1n_next" VARCHAR,
  "cprn_lc1s_next" VARCHAR,
  "cprn_lc1e_next" VARCHAR,
  "cprn_lc1w_next" VARCHAR,
  "cprn_urban" VARCHAR,
  "cprn_impervious_perc" BIGINT,
  "inspire_plcc1" BIGINT,
  "inspire_plcc2" BIGINT,
  "inspire_plcc3" BIGINT,
  "inspire_plcc4" BIGINT,
  "inspire_plcc5" BIGINT,
  "inspire_plcc6" BIGINT,
  "inspire_plcc7" BIGINT,
  "inspire_plcc8" BIGINT,
  "eunis_complex" VARCHAR,
  "grassland_sample" BIGINT,
  "grass_cando" VARCHAR,
  "wm" VARCHAR,
  "wm_source" VARCHAR,
  "wm_type" VARCHAR,
  "wm_delivery" VARCHAR,
  "erosion_cando" VARCHAR,
  "soil_stones_perc" VARCHAR,
  "bio_sample" BIGINT,
  "soil_bio_taken" BIGINT,
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  "soil_blk_0_10_taken" VARCHAR,
  "bulk10_20_sample" BIGINT,
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  "bulk20_30_sample" BIGINT,
  "soil_blk_20_30_taken" VARCHAR,
  "standard_sample" BIGINT,
  "soil_std_taken" VARCHAR
);