Current and projected Land use maps at 10 m for Belgium

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Last Updated december 3, 2024, 11:21 (UTC)
Created október 18, 2022, 21:31 (UTC)
E-mail p.rashidi@bangor.ac.uk
Language Eng
Original language English
Abstract Under various scenarios, land use changes in Belgium are simulated at 10-meter resolution. Three SSP-RCP scenarios were used to model the land use trends in the present (2020) and the year 2050 at the national level in Belgium. Key inputs to the model include regional land use demand, quantification of the suitability of grid cells for different land use types, and a reference land cover map. The 10 meter-resolution baseline land use map of Belgium was sourced from the European Space Agency (ESA) WorldCover for the reference year 2020. The classification systems ESA is different from LUH2. To make these datasets comparable for land use simulations, we performed reclassification based on the guidelines provided by Pérez-Hoyos et al. (2012); Dong et al. (2018); Liao et al. (2020) to unify the land use classes, except water, into six general categories: 1) urban, 2) cropland, 3) pasture, 4) forestry, 5) bare/sparse vegetation, and 6) undefined.
Resource type Spatial dataset
Spatial representation type grid
Licenc none
Classification Environment
Creation date 2022-07-31
INSPIRE theme Land use
Free keywords SSP-RCP scenarios, land use projection, fine spatial resolution
Responsible party Organisation: Bangor University
Email: p.rashidi@bangor.ac.uk
Role: Point of Contact
Related publications Rashidi, Parinaz, Sopan D. Patil, Aafke M. Schipper, Rob Alkemade, and Isabel Rosa. "Downscaling Global Land-Use Scenario Data to the National Level: A Case Study for Belgium." Land 12, no. 9 (2023): 1740. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12091740
Projections WGS 84 -- EPSG-4326
Spatial extent - North 51.503775
Spatial extent - South 49.4988
Spatial extent - East 6.4068
Spatial extent - West 2.555025

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