{ "cid": "1.1.0.1.3.1", "data": { "average": null, "crawled_on": "16-06-2025", "current_value": null, "last_update": "16-06-2025", "reporting_on": "2016-2022", "source": null, "target": null, "values": { "AVCON": { "2016": "41.432", "2018": "41.284", "2020": "41.201", "2022": "41.133" }, "FAD": { "2016": "80.105", "2018": "79.94", "2020": "79.82", "2022": "79.741" } } }, "datasets": [ { "access_data_policy": null, "accessible": true, "date": "2025-04-19", "description": "Land cover classification gridded maps", "findable": true, "format": "Raster", "id": 24, "interoperable": true, "licence_of_use": "ESA CCI Land Cover licence Terms of use: The products are made available to the public by ESA and the consortium. You may use one or several CCI-LC products land cover map for educational and/or scientific purposes, without any fee on the condition that you credit the ESA Climate Change Initiative and in particular its Land Cover project as the source of the CCI-LC database. Should you write any scientific publication on the results of research activities that use one or several CCI-LC products as input, you shall acknowledge the ESA CCI Land Cover project in the text of the publication and provide the project with an electronic copy of the publication (contact@esa-landcover-cci.org). If you wish to use one or several CCI-LC products in advertising or in any commercial promotion, you shall acknowledge the ESA CCI Land Cover project and you must submit the layout to the project for approval beforehand (contact@esa-landcover-cci.org).\n\nCopyright notice: \\\u00a9 ESA Climate Change Initiative - Land Cover led by UCLouvain (2017)\n", "reference": "https://dast.copernicus-climate.eu/documents/satellite-land-cover/WP2-FDDP-LC-2021-2022-SENTINEL3-300m-v2.1.1_PUGS_v1.1_final.pdf", "resolution": "10 arcseconds", "reusable": true, "scale": null, "spatial_extent": "Global", "storage": "https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/datasets/satellite-land-cover?tab=download", "tag": "ESA-CCI Land Cover", "temporal_extent": "1992-2022", "version": "2.1" }, { "access_data_policy": null, "accessible": true, "date": "2014-12-19", "description": "Global Administrative Unit Layers (GAUL), revision 2015", "findable": true, "format": "Vector", "id": 25, "interoperable": true, "licence_of_use": "Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 IGO", "reference": null, "resolution": null, "reusable": true, "scale": null, "spatial_extent": "Global", "storage": "https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/iso/1122b98b-b208-4f45-956a-6e80ba8054a3", "tag": "GAUL", "temporal_extent": "2015-2015", "version": "2015" } ], "documentation": { "accessible": true, "accuracy_uncertainties": "The spatial resolution (300m) of the input dataset used do not allow to take into account small-scale natural areas. Furthermore, the indicator is based on a reclassification of land cover classes into a binary classification (natural and non-natural areas), and therefore (i) it does not capture the actual naturalness gradient of land areas and (ii) it represents overall connectivity of natural land, without distinguishing connectivity within each land cover class of natural land.", "cid": "1.1.0.1.3.1", "comments": null, "copyright": null, "definition": "Average proportion of connected natural area on land within a local neighbourhood of approximately 50 km2 at EU27 level. Both average connectivity within the natural area of the EU27 countries (FAD) and average connectivity within the overall area of the EU27 countries (AVCON) are reported.", "documented": true, "has_target": false, "id": 18, "indicator": "Natural area connectivity on land", "label": "1.3.1", "method": "1) Land cover classes of the input ESA-CCI Land cover map are reclassified into two categories: natural area and non-natural area. Among the 37 classes of ESA-CCI Land cover map, the following classes are considered as non-natural: Cropland, rainfed (herbaceous, tree or shrub cover), Cropland, irrigated or post-flooding, Mosaic cropland (>50%) / natural vegetation (tree, shrub, herbaceous cover) (<50%), Grassland, Urban areas. 2) The reclassified dataset is then submitted to the Foreground Area Density (FAD) analysis, performed using GWB (GuidosToolbox Workbench): for each pixel classified as natural area, the relative number of connected pixels also classified as natural areas in its local neighbourhood of 23 x 23 pixels, equivalent to approximately 50 km2, is calculated. Specifically, for each pixel, the FAD value is computed as: FAD = Number of pixels classified as natural areas / Total number of pixels in kernel 3) The output map from FAD analysis is then intersected with administrative boundaries (source: FAO GAUL, revision 2015). 4) Zonal statistics are computed by country as well as at EU27 level, and the average FAD and AVCON values for each country and for EU27 are retained. 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It considers both average connectivity within the natural area of the EU27 countries (FAD) and average connectivity within the overall area of the EU27 countries (AVCON). Values are calculated and provided every 2 years by the Joint Research Centre.", "tag": null, "terrestrial": true, "time_coverage": "2016-2022", "type": "State", "unit": "% of connected natural area on land", "update_frequency": "Every 2 years", "validated": true, "visible": true, "visualisation": "timechartn", "web_service": null }, "other_policies": null, "tags": { "category": { "cid": null, "label": null, "tag": null }, "context": { "cid": "1", "label": "EU Biodiversity Strategy for 2030", "tag": "EU-BDS" }, "subcontext": { "cid": "1.1", "label": "Coherent network of protected areas", "tag": "COHERENT NETWORK OF PROTECTED AREAS" }, "subtarget": { "cid": "1.1.0.1.3", "label": "Build a truly coherent Trans-European Nature Network integrating ecological corridors on land", "tag": "Subtarget 1.3" }, "target": { "cid": "1.1.0.1", "label": "Legally protect a minimum of 30% of the EU\u2019s land area and a minimum of 30% of the EU\u2019s sea area, and integrate ecological corridors, as part of a true Trans-European Nature Network.", "tag": "Target 1" } } }