NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 EEA activities and projects on spatial analysis and land accounting Jean-Louis Weber, EEA LANDSCAPE EUROPE Seminar on Landscape Classification and Indicators

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Environmental information: the debate on INTEGRATION Information services for policy making at the various scales Monitoring/ Data Collection/ Data Assimilation/ Modelling/ Assessments/ Services Thematic integration (data assimilation, modelling…): spatial integration (e.g. land use, water & biodiversity), integrated assessments, scenarios & outlooks Data policy: towards a European Shared Information System (GMES), the European Spatial Data Infrastructure (INSPIRE) as a first step

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Integration of Monitoring Mapping Sampling Monitoring sites

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Spatial integration of Land, Biodiversity & Water Water Quality Pesticide s to rivers Intensive agricultur e Wetland drainag e Forest manage ment Eutroph ication Species dynamic s Urban sprawl

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Land accounts as a tool for integrating land use & ecosystems Land UseEcosystems LAND Land Cover Image Socio-Economic Data Bio-Physical Data

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Land & Ecosystem Accounts (LEAC) Land & Ecosystem Accounts –Land cover –Land use –Ecosystems Part of the SEEA 2003 (System of Environmental and Economic Accounts of the UN with WB, IMF, OECD and EC) Accounts in monetary AND in physical units Tested in Europe with Eurostat and EEA support (France, UK, Germany, European coast, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania) European-wide implementation with CLC2000

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Accounting for Stocks & Flows  Accounts can be compiled in monetary OR in physical units  Changes in structure, patterns or quality are included in accounts  Indicators can be easily derived from accounts

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th = 1990 Corine Land Cover as a basis for land accounts Artificial Intensive agriculture Extensive agriculture Non wooded natural land Wetlands Example with LaCoast Data

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 From many land cover changes to flows of consumption and formation of cover

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Nomenclature of Land Cover Flows (Level 1) LCF1Urban land management LCF2Urban residential sprawl LCF3Sprawl of economic sites and infrastructures LCF4Agriculture internal conversions LCF5Conversion from other land cover to agriculture LCF6Withdrawal of farming LCF7Forests creation and management LCF8Water bodies creation and management LCF9Changes of Land Cover due to natural and multiple causes

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 The Netherlands Summary balance of consumption and formation of land cover , hectares (source: CORINE Land Cover 2000 – PROVISIONAL RESULTS)

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 The Netherlands Net Change in Land Cover , 1000 hectares (source: CORINE Land Cover 2000 – PROVISIONAL RESULTS)

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Ireland Summary balance of consumption and formation of land cover , hectares (source: CORINE Land Cover 2000 – PROVISIONAL RESULTS)

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Ireland Net Change in Land Cover , 1000 hectares (source: CORINE Land Cover 2000 – PROVISIONAL RESULTS)

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 From many land cover units to regions & to landscape types

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Land accounting & reporting units Grids Administrative Units River basins Sea catchments Bio-geographical regions Coastal units Dominant Landscape Types 

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 accgrid GRIDCODE XCOORD ESURF VALUE1 VALUE2... VALUE44 clc90 GEOGRAPHICAL CROSSING ArcView [Tabulate areas] SMOOTHING smoother.exe FIELDS AGREGATION Access or sumfields.ave Dominant Landscape Types based on CORILIS smoothing methodology DOMINANCE reclassification dominance.ave GRIDCODE CLASS1 CLASS2 CLASS3 CLASS4 CLASS5 GRIDCODE X coord VALUE1 VALUE2... VALUE44 smoothed classes (CORILIS) dominance rasterization GRIDCODE SVALUE1 SVALUE2... SVALUE44 GRIDCODE DLT

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Dominant Landscape Types of Europe used in Land Accounts

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Dominant Landscape Types are A tool for stratification of data: –Analysis of statistics –Re-sampling of existing monitoring results –Preparation of new samplings A key for interpreting indicators at the European level therefore, they need to be reasonably aggregated DLT are not THE map of European landscapes but only ONE POSSIBLE map at the macro/meso scale

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Land Accounting Units/ Coastal Units

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Farmland Abandonment by Dominant Landscape Types on EU Coast , ha

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Trends in marginal land on European coast, , hectares

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Ireland Potential of Wetlands in the Landscape Wetlands concentrate in dark blue areas, are scattered when green and absent when yellow source: CORINE Land Cover 2000 PROVISIONAL RESULTS

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Ireland Plantation of Coniferous over Wetlands The more concerned areas are those with few wetlands (green) source: CORINE Land Cover 2000 PROVISIONAL RESULTS

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Ireland Distribution of Natura 2000 sites (in red) & Plantation of Coniferous over Wetlands source: CORINE Land Cover 2000 PROVISIONAL RESULTS & Natura 2000 database

NERI Roskilde Tuesday, May 18 th 2004 Next steps in spatial analysis and land accounting Integrating socio-economic statistics: land use accounts Integrating monitoring data (FF, rivers, coastal water…): ecosystems accounts Integrating time: scenarios & outlooks, PRELUDE as a first test Integrating scales: connection of land accounts & and the European landscape map at the meso/micro scale