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Summary

LUCAS survey provides harmonised statistics on Land Use and Land Cover across the European Union. The LUCAS survey is used to monitor the land cover, the social and economic use of land, the biodiversity and other environmental parameters. The 2018 survey is based on a sample of 336000 points selected from the LUCAS 2x2 km2 grid which is the list of geo-referenced of about one million points in the EU.

The paper describes the calibration technique, the way it has been applied in LUCAS 2018 and the impact of calibration on the estimates

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  • Product code: KS-TC-23-002
  • ISBN 978-92-68-03119-3
  • ISSN 2315-0807
  • doi: 10.2785/238299
  • Themes: General and regional statistics
  • Collection: Statistical working papers