1. State-of-play Report LC Specifications Version 2.0 Team Staff: Stephan Arnold (DE), Geir-Harald Strand [Facilitator] (NO), Dimitri Sarafinof [Editor] (FR), Wim Devos (JRC), Gergely Maucha (HU). Vanda Nunes de Lima (JRC), Åsa Sehlstedt (SE), Nuria Valcarcel Sanz (ES), Elzbieta Bielecka (PL), Marjo Kasanko (ESTAT), Steffen Kunz (DE) INSPIRE TWG Land Cover

2. State-of-play Report LC Specifications Version 2.0 Communication: 3 Physical Meetings - Kick-off Meeting, Frankfurt, Germany - Editing Meeting, Oslo, Norway - Editing Meeting, Madrid, Spain 15 Telefon Conferences INSPIRE TWG Land Cover

3. 17.02.20143INSPIRE Conference - Edinburgh William Shakespeare Source: http://de.wikipedia.org What has William in common with the TWG LC??

4. Land cover is an abstraction of the physical and biophysical cover on the earths surface. [Directive 2007/2/EC] 17.02.20144INSPIRE Conference - Edinburgh INSPIRE TWG Land Cover

5. Land Cover Survey initiatives T h e e a r t h s b i o - p h y s i c a l s u r f a c e Land Cover Landscape Elements Other mapping initiatives 17.02.20145INSPIRE Conference - Edinburgh CORINE Land Cover LUCAS DLM-DE, SIOSE, LCM INSPIRE TWG Land Cover

6. Land Cover Survey Initiative T h e e a r t h s b i o - p h y s i c a l s u r f a c e Land Cover Land Cover Data UsersDocumentation 17.02.20146INSPIRE Conference - Edinburgh INSPIRE TWG Land Cover

7. Land Cover Survey Initiative Land Cover Data Land Cover Coverage Land Cover Object Situation (Time of observation) Land Cover ClassLand Cover Parameter 17.02.20147INSPIRE Conference - Edinburgh CLC2000 CLCchange2006-2012 Polygon Satellite image Point INSPIRE TWG Land Cover Raster

8. Land Cover Coverage Land Cover Object Situation (Time of observation) Land Cover Class T h e e a r t h s b i o - p h y s i c a l s u r f a c e Land Cover Survey Initiative Metadata Nomenclature Instructions Documentation Definitions Land Cover Parameters 17.02.20148INSPIRE Conference - Edinburgh CLC LUCAS LCML GMES INSPIRE TWG Land Cover Land Cover Data No INSPIRE LC classification

9. 17.02.20149INSPIRE Conference - Edinburgh INSPIRE TWG Land Cover - Data Specifications contain no unique INSPIRE Land Cover Classification System - Flexible regarding various Land Cover nomenclatures or classification systems (existing or up-coming) - Open for Polygons / Points / Raster Data Sets

10. 17.02.201410INSPIRE Conference - Edinburgh William Shakespeare Source: http://de.wikipedia.org Twelfth Night or What You Will INSPIRE TWG Land Cover