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The European Urban Atlas is part of the local component of the GMES/Copernicus land monitoring services. It provides high-resolution land use maps for European Large Urban Zones and their surroundings (more than 50.000 inhabitants). The Urban Atlas has a legend designed to capture urban land use (17 urban classes with minimum mapping unit = MMU 0.25 ha, 10 rural classes MMU = 1ha) and a finer spatial resolution compared to the CORINE land cover product.

1. Click Add vector layer and select file geodata_lab01\vector\Subset-Goe_DE021L1_GOTTINGEN_UA2012_UTM32N.shp. It was produced by the Copernicus Urban Atlas project. The map should appear on the canvas. It is already categorized by an associated style file.

The map should now appear in the selected style, with a legend of the categories displayed in the TOC (Figure D).

1. Download a prepared QGIS style file from Stud.IP: Subset-Goe_DE021L1_GOTTINGEN_UA2012_UTM32N.qml and click Style --> Load Style.

Figure D: Copernicus urban atlas landcover map for Göttingen and vicinity