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ETRS 89 refers to a geographic coordinate systemGeographic Coordinate System, while UTM 32 is a projected coordinate systemProjected Coordinate System.

I would discard both because UTM only cover approximately 6 degrees of longitude before you start to have visible distortion. Therefore you would need several UTM zones to cover Europe, with complex issues to stitch them. With ETRS 89, a degree of latitude and longitude are quite different at the latitude of Europe (getting worse as you move to the North), so you can't assume that a pixel in the North has the same area as a pixel in the South.

So my recommendation is to use the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection (based on ETRS 89), with EPSG code = 3035 (EPSG:3035). This projection covers the all of Europe, is part of the standard for the INSPIRE directive, and does not distort the area (which is important if you compute statistics of land use).

ETRS 89 refers to a geographic coordinate system, while UTM 32 is a projected coordinate system.

I would discard both because UTM only cover approximately 6 degrees of longitude before you start to have visible distortion. Therefore you would need several UTM zones to cover Europe, with complex issues to stitch them. With ETRS 89, a degree of latitude and longitude are quite different at the latitude of Europe (getting worse as you move to the North), so you can't assume that a pixel in the North has the same area as a pixel in the South.

So my recommendation is to use the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection (based on ETRS 89), with EPSG code = 3035. This projection covers the all of Europe, is part of the standard for the INSPIRE directive, and does not distort the area (which is important if you compute statistics of land use)

ETRS 89 refers to a Geographic Coordinate System, while UTM 32 is a Projected Coordinate System.

I would discard both because UTM only cover approximately 6 degrees of longitude before you start to have visible distortion. Therefore you would need several UTM zones to cover Europe, with complex issues to stitch them. With ETRS 89, a degree of latitude and longitude are quite different at the latitude of Europe (getting worse as you move to the North), so you can't assume that a pixel in the North has the same area as a pixel in the South.

So my recommendation is to use the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection (based on ETRS 89), with EPSG code = 3035 (EPSG:3035). This projection covers the all of Europe, is part of the standard for the INSPIRE directive, and does not distort the area (which is important if you compute statistics of land use).

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ETRS 89 refers to a geographic coordinate system, while UTM 32 is a projected coordinate system.

I would discard both because UTM only cover approximately 6 degrees of longitude before you start to have visible distortion. Therefore you would need several UTM zones to cover Europe, with complex issues to stitch them. With ETRS 89, a degree of latitude and longitude are quite different at the latitude of Europe (getting worse as you move to the North), so you can't assume that a pixel in the North has the same area as a pixel in the South.

So my recommendation is to use the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection (based on ETRS 89), with EPSG code = 3035. This prjectionprojection covers the all of Europe, is part of the standard for the INSPIRE directive, and does not distort the area (which is important if you compute statistics of land use)

ETRS 89 refers to a geographic coordinate system, while UTM 32 is a projected coordinate system.

I would discard both because UTM only cover approximately 6 degrees of longitude before you start to have visible distortion. Therefore you would need several UTM zones to cover Europe, with complex issues to stitch them. With ETRS 89, a degree of latitude and longitude are quite different at the latitude of Europe (getting worse as you move to the North).

So my recommendation is to use the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection (based on ETRS 89), with EPSG code = 3035. This prjection covers the all of Europe, is part of the standard for the INSPIRE directive, and does not distort the area (which is important if you compute statistics of land use)

ETRS 89 refers to a geographic coordinate system, while UTM 32 is a projected coordinate system.

I would discard both because UTM only cover approximately 6 degrees of longitude before you start to have visible distortion. Therefore you would need several UTM zones to cover Europe, with complex issues to stitch them. With ETRS 89, a degree of latitude and longitude are quite different at the latitude of Europe (getting worse as you move to the North), so you can't assume that a pixel in the North has the same area as a pixel in the South.

So my recommendation is to use the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection (based on ETRS 89), with EPSG code = 3035. This projection covers the all of Europe, is part of the standard for the INSPIRE directive, and does not distort the area (which is important if you compute statistics of land use)

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ETRS 89 refers to a geographic coordinate system, while UTM 32 is a projected coordinate system.

I would discard both because UTM only cover approximately 6 degrees of longitude before you start to have visible distortion. Therefore you would need several UTM zones to cover Europe, with complex issues to stitch them. With ETRS 89, a degree of latitude and longitude are quite different at the latitude of Europe (getting worse as you move to the North).

So my recommendation is to use the Lambert Azimuthal Equal Area projection (based on ETRS 89), with EPSG code = 3035. This prjection covers the all of Europe, is part of the standard for the INSPIRE directive, and does not distort the area (which is important if you compute statistics of land use)