Kalkalpen National Park - EUNIS Habitat map

The data set production implied 2 steps. First re-classification of CORINE Land Cover 2006 and bathymetry data using the 7 terrestrial (urban, cropland, grassland, woodland and forest, heathland and shrub, sparsely vegetated land, wetland), 1 freshwater (river and lakes), and 4 marine (marine inlets and transitional waters, coastal, shelf, open ocean) classes of the MAES ecosystem typology (Maes et al., 2013). The classes also provide links to major policy lines such as agriculture, forestry, territorial cohesion, water and marine related policies. The second step comprised refinement of the ecosystem types by attributing EUNIS habitat information to each ecosystem type (see http://eunis.eea.europa.eu/habitats.jsp). The refinement process used reference data such as potential natural vegetation, elevation, slope, aspect, soil, geology, environmental regions and other spatial referenced information which allowed attribution of the EUNIS habitat characteristics to the spatial mapping units of the MAES ecosystem types. The geometric and thematic accuracy of EUNIS class presence was also estimated and mapped. The method is described in the EEA Technical Report 06/2015: European Ecosystem Assessment ? Concept, Data, and Implementation.
The basis for the update was CORINE land cover 2006 (CLC 2006). It includes Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kosovo (under UNSCR 1244/99), Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia, Malta, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom. For Greece that has not participated in the CLC 2006 activity the CLC 2000 data was used instead.