The General Directorate of Agriculture, service based in Brussels, is the Commission department responsible for the implementation of the European Union's policies on agriculture and rural development. EEA was launched by the European Union in 1993 with a mandate to orchestrate, cross-check and put to strategic use information of relevance to the protection and improvement of Europe s environment. Statistical Office of the European Communities. Its mission is to provide the European Union with a statistical information service. Eurostat uses uniform rules to collect statistical data from the official statistical services, in particular the National Statistical Institutes of each of the 15 Member States of the European Union.
Evenness refers to the share of area among different classes in a reference unit .
Refers to the division of geographical space into numerous land cover patches . In cartography generalisation refers to geometric and thematic features of maps. Geographic Information System. Observed value representative of a phenomenon to study. In general, indicators quantify information by aggregating different and multiple data.