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HomeRedesign sample for Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey (LUCAS) 2018
2018 edition
Redesign sample for Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey (LUCAS) 2018
2018 edition
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Eurostat’s Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey (LUCAS) provides harmonised statistics on land use and land cover across the European Union. Land use shows the socio-economic use of a given land: agriculture, commerce, industry, residence, etc. while Land cover refers to the bio-physical coverage of the land: crops, forest, buildings, roads, etc. LUCAS is characterised by the unique, in-situ information that it provides. Since the end of the pilot phase (2006), Eurostat has carried out this survey every 3 years (2009, 2012, 2015) with the next LUCAS survey, covering all the 28 European Union (EU) countries, taking place in 2018. Each round has been an opportunity to adapt, adjust and constantly improve the LUCAS methodology in order to obtain the most accurate and harmonised data possible. In this context, the LUCAS 2018 survey focused on (i) a different specification and use of the noneligibility concept, (ii) a review of the rules for assigning photo-interpreted and field points in the sample, (iii) a finer stratification. This paper shows the characteristics of the new sampling design for 2018, and the innovative methodology which is applied to it. After a first chapter on the features of the LUCAS survey, chapter 2 details the data preparation (statistical models for land cover variation prediction, probability to change and reachability, use of satellite information) implied by the new methodology. The latter is presented in the next chapter, outlining the 2018 sample design and sampling procedure, while chapter 4 discusses the main differences between the sample designs of the last round in 2015 and the next one for 2018. Finally, in chapter 5, the conclusions are presented.
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- Corporate author(s): Eurostat (European Commission)
- Personal author(s): Ballin, Marco ; Barcaroli, Giulio ; Masselli, Mauro ; Scarnó, Marco
- Themes: Statistics , Environment policy and protection of the environment
- Subject: agricultural statistics , data collection , environmental statistics , land use
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| ISSN 2315-0807 | ISBN 978-92-79-93921-1 | DOI 10.2785/132365 | Catalogue number KS-TC-18-006-EN-N |
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