Portuguese Geographic Institute Produces Corine Land Cover Chart

The Remote Sensing Group of Geographic Institute of Portugal is producing the Corine Land Cover from 2006 chart (CLC2006) for Continental Portugal, and it will be available at the end of 2008.

The satellite images used in the production of the CLC2006 chart are already available for free download. There are two covers regarding to Spring and Summer of 2006, obtained by Spot 4, Spot 5 and IRS-P6 LISS III satellites.

Spot 4 and Spot 5 images cover about 3,600 km2, meanwhile the IRS-P6 LISS III images cover about 19,600 km2.

For more information about the obtainment of those images, look up the website of CLC2006 project of Remote Sensing Group of Geographic Institute of Portugal:
www.igeo.pt/gdr/projectos/clc2006