Summary:

The paper presents effectiveness of LUCAS research method on the exam-ple of nine districts Małopolskie voivodeship. The study was conducted from march to july 2006. There were 520 research points located in the following
districts: krakowski, Kraków, wielicki, limanowski, wadowicki, myślenicki, suski, nowatorski, tatrzański. Research points were specified by Eurostat randomly. The analysis reveal numerical distribution in land cover categories and land use cate-gories. The survey results allowed to define the use of land (land development) on the studied area. The link between land cover and land use allowed to evaluate percentage of points assigned to land use and land cover categories. The final re-sults are presented on the land use and land cover maps.