The CORINE (Coordinate Information on the Environment) data base is a common project of the EEA and its member states in the European environment information and observation network (Eionet). The data base covers 29 European countries and many of them in all three time series of 1990, 2000 and 2006.
CORINE is the first and only consistent database covering Europe derived from common source data, homogeneous in time and image quality, produced by an agreed service and qualified by a standardized quality control.
This information base, supported by thematic and local data, is used for geographical tracking land use / land cover changes in European regions and for supporting the analysis of causes and effects. Examples are:

Expansion of metropolitan regions and migration from less favorable regions,
change of agricultural systems,
abandoning specific land use systems,
challenges of „energy landscapes“, „transformation landscapes“ and tourism,
loss of biodiversity in cultural landscapes,
threat to historical and extensive landscapes,
expansion of natural landscapes and wilderness – loss and / or gain of biodiversity.