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.