Land use - cover area frame survey

Land Use and Cover by Area frame Sampling Land (or LUCAS is a European field survey program funded and executed by Eurostat.

Its objective is to set up area frame surveys for the provision of coherent and harmonised statistics on land use and land cover in the European Union (EU). In addition, it is to provide information on agriculture, the environment, landscapes and sustainable development, ground evidence for calibration of satellite images and a register of points for specific surveys (such as soil, biodiversity etc.) and for the core European in-situ data collection network.