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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.

• Click the Open Data Source Manager and then Add raster layer and select the file and select the file geodata_lab01\vector\DE021L1_GOTTINGEN\Subset-Goe_DE021L1_GOTTINGEN_UA2012_UTM32N.shp. It was produced by the Copernicus Urban Atlas project. The map should appear on the canvas.

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

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