A "Digital Thematic Information System of Austria's Land Use and Land Cover" on a medium scale

A land use and land cover data set for the entire territory of AUSTRIA is a vailable at the Department of Geography and Regional Studies, Klagenfurt Un iversity, Carinthia. The data set is hierarchically ordered, especially as to urban land use types. The geometrical resolution as well as the accuracy of the delineation of the land use patches is more detailed than in any ot her comparable data sets. A number of land use categories ale shown for the first time, such as, e.g., different classes of forests (defined by the pe rcentage of deciduous trees versus coniferous trees) or the differentiation between arable land and grassland areas.