A new Daniel Raven Ellison film has been released.
What does Europe really look like?From farmland to forests, scrubland and waterways, you can now join us as we walk through Europe's landscapes in 100 seconds. In this video, we highlight the unique diversity of Europe’s landscapes and the challenges they face.
Using satellite data from the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service, the video draws attention to how Europe can make more space for healthy and resilient nature, which can significantly help reduce the impacts of climate change.
What percentage of Europe is covered by built-up areas, such as cities, and how much is covered by forests or different types of crops?
From Sweden to Spain, Daniel Raven-Ellison, a UK-based citizen geographer, trekked across 12 European countries over a three-week period earlier this year to film the video. Join us for a 100-second walk across Europe!
For more information about the Copernicus Land Monitoring Service (CLMS), visit our website: https://land.copernicus.eu/en
One second = 1%
Each second of the 100-second walk represents one percent of Europe’s land and how it looks like from above with the use of land cover data from the EU’s Copernicus Earth observation and monitoring programme.
Landscapes covered include built-up areas like buildings and roads, wetlands, inland waterways, scrub and grasslands and forests. The largest chunk of land cover in Europe is taken up by farmland, including patchworks of fields, livestock pastures and larger crop fields.
The aim of the video is to raise public awareness of what their surrounding landscapes are used for and how much space is allotted to wilderness and nature.
The land use data that is visualised is here:
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