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CLMS Urban Atlas Land Cover and Land Use (0.25ha MMU) - Europe
The Urban Atlas Land Cover and Land Use product provides detailed land cover and land use information for Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) in Europe. The product has a Minimum Mapping Unit (MMU) of 0.25 hectares (2,500 m²) and a Minimum Mapping Width (MMW) of 10 meters. It is part of the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS) and covers urban areas across Europe with a 3-yearly temporal repeat rate. The data is provided in flatgeobuf format with EPSG:3035 projection.
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Licence: proprietary
Evidence quality: 42.2
Listed in cdse-stac public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z
What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- land cover · land use
- Coverage docs-verified
- Europe, urban areas (Functional Urban Areas) · 2018-01-01 onwards (open-ended)
- Resolution docs-verified
- Minimum Mapping Unit 0.25 ha (2,500 m²); Minimum Mapping Width 10 m
- Update frequency docs-verified
- 3-yearly repeat rate
- Formats docs-verified
- FlatGeobuf
- Access docs-verified
- Proprietary licence (Copernicus Land Monitoring Service Data Policy)
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Drainage strategy: land-use classes to inform impermeable-area and runoff inputs in urban catchments · FRA context: land-use mapping of urban floodplain and built-up areas within a Functional Urban Area · BNG baseline: urban land-cover context for habitat and green/grey infrastructure screening · Site screening in FUAs: land-use context for planning and ground-investigation scoping
- Audience llm-inferred
- drainage engineers · flood consultants · ecologists · planners · GIS analysts
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Covers Functional Urban Areas only, not all of Europe's land · Repeat rate of 3 years, so land use may be out of date between updates · Features below 0.25 ha MMU are not mapped · Proprietary licence; check Copernicus data policy before commercial reuse · Entry lists no auth, but STAC metadata advertises S3 and OpenID Connect schemes, so access may require an account
Evidence
Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.