Examples of ETC-LUSI thematic priorities.

Countries Information

Albania Macedonia Bosnia & Herzegovina Switzerland Iceland Norway Turkey Malta Cyprus Ireland United Kingdom Portugal Spain France Italy Luxembourg Belgium Netherlands Denmark Germany Czech Republic Austria Slovenia Croatia Greece Bulgaria Romania Hungary Slovakia Poland Lithuania Latvia Estonia Finland Sweden
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Austria
  • Country area: 83,850 km2
  • National authority: UBA
  • Contracted organisation: UBA
  • Project manager: Gebhard Banko

Milestones:

  • Project started: June 2002
  • Training: 9-11 April 2002
  • 1st verification: 18-19 August
  • Final verification: 13-14 May 2004
Belgium
  • Country area: 30,520 km2
  • National Authority: Institute Géographique National (IGN)
  • Contact person: Eric Bayers
  • Contracted organisation: IGN
  • Project manager: Hugues Bruynseels

Milestones:

  • Project started:
  • Training: 13-15 March 2002
  • 1st verification: 17-18 July 2003
  • Final verification: 22-26 May 2004
Bulgaria
  • Country area:110 993 km2
  • National authority: Ministry of Environment and Water
  • Contact person : Svetlana Zhekova
  • National authority: Executive Environmental Agency
  • Contact person: Ivanka Todorova
  • Contracted organisation: Space Research Institute
  • Project manager:Anton Stoimenov
  • Contracted organisation: DATECS
  • Project manager: Rossen Russenov

Milestones:

  • Project started: September 2002
  • Training: 3-5 December 2002
  • 1st verification: 20-22 October 2003
  • Final verification: 12-15 July 2004
Croatia
  • Country area: 56542 km2
  • National Authority: Croatian Environment Agency
  • Contact person: Marijo Vranaricic
  • Contracted organisations: OIKON (photointerpretation), GISDATA (change mapping)
  • Project managers: Vladimir Kusan (OIKON), Ivana Lampev Pavcnik (GISDATA)

Milestones:

  • Project started: Jan 2003
  • Training: 16-17 October 2003
  • 1st verification: 24-26 May 2004
  • 2nd verification: 22-26 November 2004
Czech Republic
  • Country area: 78 864 km2
  • National Authority: Ministry of the Environment
  • Contact person: Jiri Hradec
  • Contracted organisation: Help Service Remote Sensing Ltd.
  • Project manager:Stanislav Holy

Milestones:

  • Project started: late 2002
  • Training: 15-17 January 2003
  • 1st verification: 2-4 June 2003
  • Project finished: 28 June 2004
Denmark
  • Country area: 43,090 km2
  • National Authority:
  • Contact person:
  • Contracted organisation: National Environmental Research Institute (NERI).
  • Project manager:Michael Stjernholm

Milestones:

  • Project started: December 2002
  • Training: 18-20 December 2002
  • 1st verification: 26-27 May 2003
  • Final verification: 16-18 June 2004
Estonia
  • Country area: 45 226 km2
  • National Authority: Estonian Environmental Information Centre (EEIC)
  • Contact person: Tiina Dislis
  • Contracted organisation: Estonian Map Centre
  • Project manager: Valentina Sagris

Milestones:

  • Project started: late 2002
  • Training: 17-19 December 2002
  • 1st verification: 26-27 May 2003
  • Project finished: 12 February 2004
Finland
  • Country area: 338,130 km2
  • National Authority: Ministry of Environment
  • Contact person: Yrjo Sucksdorff
  • Contracted organisation: Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
  • Project manager: Pekka Härmä

Milestones:

  • Project started:
  • Training: October 2002
  • 1st verification: 28-29 August 2003
  • Final verification: 24-28 May 2004
France
  • Country area: 551,500 km2
  • National Authority: IFEN
  • Contact person: Francis Bertrand

Milestones:

  • Project started: 2001
  • Technical discussion: 19-20 February 2003
  • 1st verification: 24-27 June 2003
  • 2nd verification: 21-25 June 2004
  • 3rd verification: 4-8 October 2004
Germany
  • Country area: 356, 910 km2
  • National Authority: UBA
  • Contact person: Birgit Mohaupt-Jahr
  • Contracted organisation: DLR
  • Project manager DLR: Manfred Keil
  • Subcontractors: GAF, Infoterra, EFTAS

Milestones:

  • Project started: April, 2000
  • Training: 5-8 February 2002
  • 1st verification: 29-31 October 2002
  • 2nd verification: 24-26 May 2004
  • 3rd verification: 11-15 October 2004
Greece
  • Country area: 131,990 km2
  • National Authority: Ministry of Environment Physical Planning and Public Works
  • Contracted organisation: Hellenic Mapping and Cadastral Organisation (HEMCO)
  • Project manager: Annie Katsina

Milestones:

  • Project started: August 2003
  • 1st verification: 26-28 July 2004
  • 2nd verification: 24-26 November 2004
Hungary
  • Country area: 93 030 km2
  • National Authority: Ministry of Environment and Waters
  • Contact person: Pál Bozó
  • Contracted organisation: Institute of Geodesy, Cartography and Remote Sensing (FÖMI)
  • Project manager FÖMI: George Büttner

Milestones:

  • Project started: end 2002
  • Technical discussion: 22 January 2003
  • 1st verification: February 2004
  • Project finished: 3-4 June 2004
Ireland
  • Country area: 70283 km2
  • National Authority: EPA
  • Project manager: Micheal Lehane
  • Contracted organisation: ERA Maptec
  • Project coordinator: Martin Critchley

Milestones:

  • Project started: end 2001
  • Training: February 2002
  • 1st verification: 5-6 November 2002
  • Final verification: 13-14 March 2003
  • Project finished: 3 December 2003
Italy
  • Country area: 301,270 km2
  • National Authority: APAT
  • Contact person: Claudio Maricchiolo
  • Contracted organisation: APAT
  • Project manager: Valter Sambucini
  • Subcontractor: Universita La Sapienza, Roma, Dipartimento Biologia Vegetale

Milestones:

  • Project started: October 2002
  • Training: 4-6 March 2003
  • 1st verification: July 2003
  • Final verification: 12-16 April 2004
  • Project finished: 20 August 2004
Latvia
  • Country area: 63 700 km2
  • National Authority: Latvian Environment Agency (LEA)
  • Contact person: Ilze Kirstuka
  • Contracted organisation: Latvian Environment Agency (LEA)
  • Project manager: Harijs Baranovs. Subcontractor: Envirotech

Milestones:

  • Project started: November 2002
  • Training: 4-6 February 2003
  • 1st verification: 24-25 April 2003
  • Project finished: 26 August 2003
Lithuania
  • Country area: 65 200 km2
  • National Authority: Environmental Protection Agency (LEPA)
  • Contact person: Violeta Jouzefaite
  • Contracted organisation: L-JRC
  • Project manager: Violeta Juozefaite. Subcontractors: Institute of Ecology, Vilnius University
  • Project manager (subcontractor): Gediminas Vaitkus

Milestones:

  • Project started: early 2003
  • Training: 1-3 April 2003
  • 1st verification: 16-18 September 2003
  • Final verification: 24-26 February 2004
  • Project finished: 14 May 2004
Luxembourg
  • Country area: 2590 km2
  • National Authority: Ministry of Environment
  • Contact person: Patrich Grivet
  • Contracted organisation: GIM S. A.
  • Project manager: Stefan Kleeschulte

Milestones:

  • Project started: end 2001
  • Final verification: 31 January 2003
  • Project finished: 5 December 2003
Malta
  • Country area: 316 km2
  • National Authority: Malta Environment and Planning Authority
  • Contact person: Matthew Gatt
  • Contracted organisation: Malta Environment and Planning Authority
  • Project manager: Saviour Formosa

Milestones:

  • Project started: 2003
  • Final verification: 19 August 2003
  • Project finished: 3 October 2003
Netherlands
  • Country area: 41253 km2
  • National Authority: RIVM (Ministry of Public Health)
  • Contact person: Roel Thomas
  • Contracted organisation: Alterra Centre for Geoinformation
  • Project manager: Gerard W. Hazeu

Milestones:

  • Project started: end 2001
  • Training: 12-13 February 2002
  • 1st verification: 6-8 November 2002
  • Project finished: 4 June 2003
Poland
  • Country area: 312 685 km2
  • National Authority: Inspectorate for Environmental Protection
  • Contact person: Lucyna Dygas-Ciolkowsk
  • Contracted organisation: IGiK
  • Project manager: Elzbieta Bielecka

Milestones:

  • Project started: end 2002
  • Training: 13-15 January 2003
  • 1st verification: 13-17 October 2003
  • Final verification: 1-5 March 2004
  • Project finished: 29 July 2004
Portugal
  • Country area: 92390 km2
  • National Authority: Instituto Superior de Estatística e Gestão da Informação (ISEGI)
  • Contact person: Marco Painho
  • Contracted organisation: ISEGI
  • Project manager: Mário Caetano.

Milestones:

  • Project started: October 2002
  • Training: 27-29 November 2002
  • 1st verification: September 24-26 2003
  • Final verification: 4-6 May 2004
Romania
  • Country area: 237 500 km2
  • National Authority: Romanian Ministry of Water and Environmental Protection
  • Contact person: Dalia Meier
  • Contracted organisation: Danube Delta National Institute (DDNI)
  • Project manager: Jenica Hanganu

Milestones:

  • Project started: March 2002
  • Training: 10-13 February 2003
  • 1st verification: 8-12 September 2003
  • Final verification: 28-2 July 2004
  • Project finished: 3 Setember 2004
Slovakia
  • Country area: 49 035 km2
  • National Authority: Slovak Environmental Agency
  • Contact person: Nada Machova
  • Contracted organisation: Slovak Environmental Agency
  • Project manager: Nada Machova. Subcontractor: Institute of Geography, Slovak Academy of Sciences

Milestones:

  • Project started: 2002
  • 1st verification: 11-12 October 2003
  • Final verification: 7 June 2004
  • Project finished: 23 July 2004
Slovenia
  • Country area: 20 273 km2
  • National Authority: Surveying and Mapping. Authority of the Republic of Slovenia
  • Contact person: Marjana Duhovnik
  • Contracted organisation: GISDATA.Forestry Institute of Slovenia
  • Project manager: Ivana Lampek Pavcnik

Milestones:

  • Project started: November 2002
  • Training: 25-27 February 2003
  • 1st verification: 20-21 August 2003
  • Project finished: 9 January 2004
Spain
  • Country area: 504,780 km2
  • National Authority: Ministry of Environment (MIMAM)
  • Contact person: Jose Antonio Canas Torres
  • Contracted organisation: IGN CNIG
  • Project manager: Antonio Arozarena

Milestones:

  • Project started: 2001
  • Training: 26-28 February 2002
  • 1st verification: 29 Sept - 7 Oct 2003
  • 2nd verification: 22-26 March 2004
Sweden
  • Country area: 449,960 km2
  • National Authority: National Land Survey of Sweden
  • Contact person: Mats Halling
  • Contracted organisation: Metria
  • Project manager: Agneta Engberg

Milestones:

  • Project started: April, 2000
  • Training: 24-25 October 2002
  • 1st verification: 19-23 May 2003
  • Final verification: 29-2 April 2004
  • Project finished: 30 June 2004
United Kingdom
  • Country area: 244,880 km2
  • National Authority: Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH)
  • Contracted organisation: CEH
  • Project manager: Geoff Smith

Milestones:

  • Training: 10-11 December 2002
  • 1st verification: 16-19 June 2003
  • 2nd verification: 5-9 July 2004
  • 3rd verification: TBD
Cyprus
  • Country area: 9251 km2
  • National authority: Ministry of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Environment (MANRE)
  • Project manager: Gebhard Banko
  • Contact person: Christina Pantazi
  • Project manager: Nicos Siamarias

Milestones:

  • Training: 28-30 January 2004
  • 1st verification: October-November 2004
Liechtenstein
  • Country area: 160 km2
  • Contracted organisation: UBA
  • Project manager: Gebhard Banko

Milestones:

  • Project started: June 2002
  • Training: 9-11 April 2002
  • 1st verification: 18-19 August
  • Final verification: 13-14 May 2004
Switzerland
  • Country area: 41,290 km2
  • National authority:
  • Contracted organisation:
  • Project manager:

Milestones:

  • Project started: Expected in 2005
Turkey
  • Country area: 780,58 km2
  • National authority:
  • Contracted organisation:
  • Project manager:

Milestones:

  • Project started: Expected at the end of 2004
Norway
  • Country area: 324,22 km2
  • National authority:
  • Contracted organisation:
  • Project manager:

Milestones:

  • Project started: Expected in 2005
Iceland
  • Country area: 103,00 km2
  • National authority:
  • Contracted organisation:
  • Project manager:

Milestones:

  • Project started: Expected in 2005
Albania

CLC data for Albania was not part of the CLC2000 project.
Therefore, no change database for Albania exists and the
data itself has not undergone the strict implementation of the CLC2000 guideline.

Source: Corine land cover, Albania, GSC & SSI 1999, © European Communities, 1995-2005.

  • Country area: 28,748 km2
  • National authority:
  • Contracted organisation:
  • Project manager:
Macedonia

CLC data for FYR Macedonia was not part of the CLC2000 project.
Therefore, the data has not undergone the strict implementation of the CLC2000 guideline.

Source: Corine land cover, Macedonia, Min. Urb. Planning, 2000, © European Communities, 1995-2005.

  • Country area: 25,433 km2
  • National authority: Ministry of Urban Planning and Construction Dame Gruev 14 91000 Skopje Macedonia
  • Contracted organisation: Ministry of Urban Planning and Construction
  • Project manager: George Büttner
  • Contact person: Zoran Velickov velickov@unet.com.mk
Bosnia and Herzegovina

CLC data for Bosnia and Herzegovina was not part of the CLC2000 project.
Therefore, the data has not undergone the strict implementation of the CLC2000 guideline.

Source: Corine land cover, Bosnia-Herzegovina,GZBiH, 2000, © European Communities, 1995-2005.

  • Country area: 51,129 km2
  • National authority: Ministry of Environment
  • Contracted organisation: Institute of Geodesy (GZ BiH) Bulevar Mese Selimovica 95 71000 Sarajevo Bosnia-Herzegovina
  • Project manager: George Büttner
  • Contact person: Esad Mahir geodzav@bih.net.ba
These are the countries participating in CLC2000. Passing your cursor over the map (or the links below) you'll see some statistics and general information. If you wish more information about any specific country, click on the link to be forwarded to a new window.

In order to assure a homogeneous quality of the CLC2000 production process a number of activities have been set up by the CLC2000 Technical Team: training for the national interpreters can be requested, and two verification missions are foreseen during the national implementation of the CLC2000 project.