European Landscape Dynamics: CORINE Land Cover Data

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Dr. Jan Feranec graduated in a physical and regional geography. He is a scientific worker at the Institute of Geography Slovak Academy of Sciences Bratislava Slovak Republic where he held the post of director from July 2002 to June 2006 and currently serves as the supervisor of PhD studies in physical geography geoecology and geoinformatics. Dr. Feranec was appointed Associate Professor at the Comenius University in Bratislava in 1996. He is also the vice-chair of the current Commission on Sensor-Driven Mapping International Cartographic Association. His research interests include land cover/use and its change mapping by satellite images urban areas analysis by VHR images and methodology of remote sensing data interpretation and landscape assessment as well as identification and analysis of abandonment of arable lands and grasslands. He has been involved in international projects such as the CzechoslovakiaCanada Cooperation in Remote Sensing Ecotons of the Rivers Danube and Morava MERA Phare Topic Link on Land Cover BIOPRESS Urban Atlas (20092011 and 20132016). From 20012009 he was a member of the central CORINE Land Cover Projects (CLC1990 and CLC2000) Technical Team.Tomas Soukup is project manager and a senior consultant in remote sensing GIS and land monitoring for GISAT s.r.o. company located in Prague Czech Republic. Graduated in geodesy cartography GIS and remote sensing he has worked extensively over the last 20 years on utilization of the Earth observation (EO) data for various practical applications in the land monitoring context including urban studies regional planning environmental assessment or emergency response and security support. Since the CORINE Land Cover 1990 mapping campaign in the Czech Republic and Slovakia he collaborates with the European Environmental Agency (EEA) in the framework of European Topic Centers (PTL/LC ETC/TE ETC/LUSI ETC/SIA. ETC/ULS) and also as member of the central CLC Technical Team. In the last decade he has been active in numerous application projects for developing testing and providing European GMES/Copernicus service capacities in land monitoring. He works with the National Reference Centre Land Cover in EIONET a partnership network of the European Environment Agency and he is also a member of the EEA EIONET Action Group on Land Monitoring in Europe supporting implementation of Copernicus services.Drs. Gerard Hazeu is a physical geographer working at AlterraWageningen University and Research Centre where he is a GIS & remote sensing researcher/project leader with specific interest in land cover/use change agriculture and biodiversity issues. Since 2001 he has been involved in several European land monitoring projects. He is responsible for the CORINE Land Cover updates in the Netherlands (2000 2006 and 2012). He has worked closely with the EEA in the European Topic Centres. He is also responsible for the Dutch national land cover database which gives an actual representation of the national land cover every four years. He represents the Netherlands as the National Reference Centre Land Cover in EIONET. Currently he is involved in several EIONET Action Group on Land Monitoring in Europe contracts (EAGLE) drafting the framework for future land cover monitoring in Europe. He also supports the implementation of the Copernicus land continental and local component by providing service specifications and ensuring continuity of the existing GIO land services.Gabriel Jaffrain graduated in geography environment spatial planning by remote sensing and biology of organisms and ecology from the University of Rennes. He has been working as a project manager and a land cover/land use expert at IGN France International for more than 20 years and is now the referent for the environmental issues and land cover mapping topics. He is involved in numerous land occupation and environment projects in France and around the world. He has been involved with the CORINE Land Cover projects since 1994 and since 2001 has been a member of the technical team of the European Topic Centre ETC/TE ETC/LUSI ETC/SIA within the European Environmental Agency. Today he is involved in the production of land cover accounting in the context of SEEA Part2 on ecosystem capital accounting. He is responsible for quality insurance/quality control on mapping tropical forests and forest change through the REDD+ international program in the Congo basin and is also involved with Europes Urban Atlas and Copernicus project as a supervisor.