MAP PresentationS of the pan-European CORINE and GMES Programme results

Ján Feranec, scientific worker, Institute of Geography, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Stefanikova 49, 814 73 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, e-mail: feranec@savba.sk

Ján Pravda, scientific worker, Institute of Geography, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Stefanikova 49, 814 73 Bratislava, Slovak Republic, e-mail: geogprav@savba.sk

The paper demonstrates and characterizes the cartographic aspects (use of map representation means above all) of selected maps compiled by the CORINE land cover data application (derived by interpretation of the Landsat images) in some European countries and at the Institute of Geography, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. Qualitative colour areas applied in order to discern land cover classes definitely prevail on maps of Luxembourg, Spain-Catalonia, Spain-eastern coast, Ireland, Belgium, Poland and France. The CORINE land cover maps processed at the Institute of Geography, Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava in turn, contain graphic and associative patterns. Newly produced data layers on the landscape under the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security Programme are also described. Alternatives of the future development of thematic map creation on base of CLC and GSELand data are characterised.

Key words: thematic map, cartographic representation, CORINE land cover, GMES, satellite data