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Fig. A.1
OpenStreetMap web interface
(
http://openstreetmap.org
)
another area. Clearly the examples can be adapted using other sources of vector
data. In addition, we use OSM in our case study in Chap.
17
on forest land cover
classification as a training dataset for a supervised classification. You can directly
get the multipolygons from the vector dataset we projected to WGS 84/UTM zone
29N (EPSG:32629) from our website.
A.1.2
Administrative Regions in Europe
The database of the geographic information system of the European Commission
(GISCO) provides a medium-scale layer for regional administrative boundaries cov-
ering the entire European territory. It is a hierarchical system, known as the nomen-
clature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS). At the finest level, NUTS 3, the
administrative boundaries correspond to provinces. The country level corresponds
to NUTS 0. A vector file with all units is available for download as an ESRI Shapefile
from the European Environment Agency.
3
regions from a larger raster dataset. In Sect.
9.3
we use it to define a bounding
box when rasterizing a burnt area map for Portugal. The burnt area map has been
downloaded from the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission
4
and is put
we extract the average raster values from a time series of a vegetation index over two
provinces in northern Italy.
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