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Land cover is one of the several components of landscape.
Relief and transportation networks are other important components for which databases are available at European level. The latter has been partly integrated into one of the analyses and further work should be undertaken on both these elements. The aim was then to evaluate the feasibility of working with these indices, and to assess their relevance, sensitivity, stability, redundancy and completeness when applied to the question of landscape diversity. From the analyses, it can be concluded that the problem is complex and that simple solutions can be misleading. No major problem was encountered by the different teams in the study.