| | 16 | |
| | 17 | [[Color(,brown,Area covered)]]: 2.3 millions km²[[BR]] |
| | 18 | * 12 countries[[BR]] |
| | 19 | * from 62° N (The Faeroes) to 28° S (Canary Islands)[[BR]] |
| | 20 | * from 14' W (Canary Islands) to 29° E (Kastellorizon)[[BR]] |
| | 21 | |
| | 22 | [[Color(,brown,Working scale)]]: 1/100000[[BR]] |
| | 23 | * i.e. 1 500 standard map sheets produced using 10 different projection systems[[BR]] |
| | 24 | |
| | 25 | [[Color(,brown,Area of the smallest mapping unit)]]: 25 hectares[[BR]] |
| | 26 | * i.e. more than 700000 basic unit (polygons) or a vector data-base around of 1 gigabyte[[BR]] |
| | 27 | |
| | 28 | [[Color(,brown,Land cover nomenclature with three levels)]][[BR]] |
| | 29 | * First level: five headings indicates the major categories (abstract to a greater or lesser degree) of land cover on the planet[[BR]] |
| | 30 | * Second level: 15 headings is for use on scales of 1:500 000 and 1: 1 000 000[[BR]] |
| | 31 | * Third level: 44 headings will be used for the project on a scale of 1: 100 000[[BR]] |
| | 32 | |
| | 33 | [[Color(,brown,National teams)]][[BR]] |
| | 34 | * DP specialists, geographers, photointerpreters and cartographers working on the production of satellite images, |
| | 35 | computer-aided interpretation and the digitization and integration national results into the CORINE land cover database.[[BR]] |
| | 36 | |
| | 37 | [[Color(,brown,A central technical unit consisting of four specialists:)]][[BR]] |
| | 38 | * Michel Bossard: Photo-interpretation[[BR]] |
| | 39 | * Yves Heymann: Project leader[[BR]] |
| | 40 | * Michel Lenco: Statistics[[BR]] |
| | 41 | * Chris Steenmans: Data processing[[BR]] |
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