Ján FERANEC, Tomáš SOUKUP, Jozef ČIŽMÁR, Jozef ŠAFÁR, Pavol KONTRA

Mapa krajinnej pokrývky Európy

Feranec, J., Soukup, T., Čižmár, J., Šafár, J., Kontra, P.: CORINE land cover map of Europe. Kartografické listy, 2015, 23 (1).

Abstract: The paper demonstrates compilation of land cover map of Europe making use of the CORINE land cover (CLC) data and subsequent printing of the map by computer technology at the scale ca 1:5 000 000. The topographic base in azimuth equivalent projection consists of: state borders, capitals, selected roads, a part of river network, which is not covered by the CLC data and the shaded terrain. The thematic overlay contains CLC data from 2006 on the first hie-rarchic levels and selected classes on the third level (broad-leaved, coniferous and mixed forests). The map was printed by the hybrid digital printer equipped with the piezoelectric inkjet printing heads with four levels of grey scale and a variable size of the print drop from 14 to 42 picolitres. Existence of such map makes possible simultaneous perception of the land cover picture of the different parts of Europe.

Keywords: CORINE, land cover data, topographic base, thematic map, hybrid digital printer, Europe