New LUCAS 2022 sample and subsamples design — Criticalities and solutions — 2022 edition - Products Statistical working papers

The Eurostat Land Use/Cover Area frame Survey (LUCAS) is mainly an in-situ survey designed to provide harmonized statistics on Land Use and Land Cover across the European Union. LUCAS 2022 survey covers all EU Member States by observing 400,000 selected points. In addition to the Land cover and Land Use observed at each of these points, further information is collected in order to assess environmental aspects such as the grassland and soil quality.

This paper delineates the design of the LUCAS 2022 sample and for the specific sub-samples.