Suau-Sanchez, PereBurghouwt, GuillaumePallares-Barbera, Montserrat2014-02-012014-02-012014-01-31Pere Suau-Sanchez, Guillaume Burghouwt, Montserrat Pallares-Barbera, An appraisal of the CORINE land cover database in airport catchment area analysis using a GIS approach, Journal of Air Transport Management, Volume 34, January 2014, Pages 12–16.0969-6997http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jairtraman.2013.07.004http://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/8240This paper presents a free available dataset, the CORINE land cover that helps dealing with the biases caused by pre-defined and heterogeneous census district boundaries in airport catchment area analysis in Europe. Using this dataset and conventional GIS software it is possible to measure the size of the population within catchment areas at the same spatial level for all EU airports, allowing for consistent comparisons among airports. To illustrate the potential of the CORINE/GIS approach, the size of the population in the catchment areas of all European airports was determined. The empirical exercise has an aggregate perspective, but this database presents many other possibilities of analysis to perform in a case-by-case basis.en-UKNOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Journal of Air Transport Management. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Journal of Air Transport Management, VOL 34, (2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.jairtraman.2013.07.004Article